Guides and Tutorials

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

Discovering Workflows? In Alfred 3, we've added Getting Started guides and examples, which you can find in Alfred's Workflows preferences. Click the [+] at the bottom of the sidebar and select Getting Started guides to see workflows in action.

Searching More Efficiently

• Beginner's Guide to Searching your Mac and the Web 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

Creating and Using Workflows

You'll find numerous built-in workflows in Alfred's Workflows preferences. Add them from the [+] menu at the bottom of the sidebar, and read their description to find out how you can use them.

A few simple guides to help you get started:

• Creating a Hotkey Workflow
• 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:

• 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

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

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! :)