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
• 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

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:

• 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:

• Share your Workflows Using GitHub
• 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

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! :)