Guides and Tutorials

Once you've browsed Alfred's features in the Preferences, you can delve deeper into customising Alfred with these great guides and tutorials.

Look for Question Mark Icons: In every Preferences section, you'll find a question mark icon. Clicking it will take you to the help page for that particular feature.

Start Searching with Alfred

• Beginner's Guide to Searching your Mac and the Web with Alfred
• Learn the 3 key ways to search your Mac with Alfred
• How to Get the Results You Want In Alfred Every Time
• Setting up Custom Searches
• Changing your Fallback Searches
• Using File Filters to search efficiently
• Searching with wildcards
• Use macOS Tags to search more efficiently

A look at Alfred 5's new features

• Introducing the new Workflow Editor, Palette, Prefabs and Favourites
• Automation Tasks: Building blocks to help you create even more amazing script-free workflows
• The Getting Started Guides will walk you through creating your first workflows
• Setting up User Configuration for beautiful Readme's and easy to setup workflows

Creating and Using Workflows

Discovering Workflows? You'll find Getting Started guides and examples in Alfred's Workflows preferences. Click the [+] at the bottom of the sidebar and select Getting Started guides to see workflows in action.

A few simple guides to help you get started:

• A Starter Guide to Alfred's Powerpack features
• Creating a Hotkey Workflow
• Using one keyword for multiple snippets
• Organising your Workflows
• Exporting and Sharing Workflows
• Adding alternative actions in workflows
• Using Built-In Examples and Templates

These slightly more advanced guides will help you make the most of workflows:

• Share your Workflows Using GitHub
• Searching for Automation Tasks in the Workflow Palette
• Setting Variables in Workflows
• Workflow Script Environment Variables

Get Productive

• Syncing your Alfred Settings
• Using Clipboard History
• Using Snippets and Text Expansion
• Using Snippet Triggers with Dynamic Input Fields
• System Commands: Take Control of macOS
• Search Google Drive with a workflow

Using Alfred Remote for iOS

• Setting up Remote for the first time
• Adding Remote Actions to your Workflows
• Creating a Workflow Remote page

Tips & Tricks

In Alfred, type "?hotkeys", "?keywords" or the question mark followed by the name of a feature, workflow, snippet, custom search, etc to bring up the relevant results.

Take a look at the Alfred Cheatsheet to see a list of all the default hotkeys, keywords and shortcuts you can use.

Here are a few of our favourite tips and tricks:

• Perform File Actions Easily from Alfred or Finder
• View your Recent Query History
• Manipulating Selected Text in macOS with Alfred Workflows
• Action Modifiers: Be clever with quick alternative actions
• Make Noise with the Free Alfred Sound Bank: A package of 32 sounds to use in Alfred or on your Mac

You'll also find Tips and Tricks on the Alfred blog! :)