Use Alfred History to Unburden Your Brain

Alfred's history features can help lighten the load on your brain and do the remembering for you. Here are three ways you can store your favourite sites' URLs, copied clip items and more.

Query History

Alfred can store the last 20 queries you've typed, and show the latest query automatically if you typed it less than 5 minutes ago.

This is particularly useful when you're making calculations, hide Alfred then continue adding to your equation.

Enable Query History in Alfred's Preferences > Advanced > History.

Clipboard History (and Snippets)

Once you start using Clipboard History, you simply can't go back! Alfred saves text clips, links, images and file paths as you copy them.

Pop up the Clipboard Viewer - the default hotkey combo is ⌥⌘C - then type a few letters to narrow down to the results you want, or scroll down for recently copied items.

Enable Clipboard History in Alfred's Preferences > Features > Clipboard.

Bonus tip: Do you search for the same clipboard item often? Save it as a snippet by using the ⌘S shortcut on the item in the Clipboard Viewer.

Snippets can be synced between your Macs and backed up for longer-term use.

Alfred's URL History

After you've opened URLs once in Alfred, your favourite sites will be remembered so that next time you can just type a few characters. No setup, no keywords or hotkeys to remember.

Accessing the same services and sites often, why not create a custom search?

Enable URL History in Alfred's Preferences > Features > Web Search > URLs / History.

Your Data is Secure and Private

You'll notice that these history features need to be enabled manually. Why? For your privacy and security. In an era where your data is so rarely yours, we give you the choice whether you want to store your query history.

Furthermore, this data isn't synced to the cloud or sent to us. It's simply stored locally on your Mac for your use only.

Get started with Alfred's History features and lighten the load on your memory!