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Using macOS Shortcuts with an Alfred workflow

When Apple's Shortcuts was released on macOS Monterey, our community started asking for ways to run shortcuts from Alfred. You’re so passionate for automation that you want to automate your automations, and we love that!

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Workflow Editor Keyboard Shortcuts

Learn the shortcuts and hotkeys that will help you navigate the Workflow Editor more efficiently.

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Alfred Cheatsheet

This cheatsheet covers the default hotkeys and keywords for Alfred's features.

/help/getting-started/cheatsheet/

Hotkey Trigger

Use hotkey triggers to perform actions with workflows without having to type a keyword. No quicker way to launch an action!

/help/workflows/triggers/hotkey/

Why Choose Alfred? Discover Alfred's Productivity-Boosting Features

Discover why Alfred is the productivity app you need in your Mac life.

/help/why-choose-alfred/

Getting Started: Simple Folder Search

Learn how to create your own File Filter workflows with this Simple Folder Search example

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Web Search, Custom Search & URLs/History

Use web searches and custom searches to get to your favourite websites. Save your URL history in Alfred for quick access to sites you've launched before.

/help/features/web-search/

Guides and Tutorials

Discover Alfred's great features with these guides and tutorials.

/help/guides-and-tutorials/

Universal Actions

With Universal Actions, you can select text in your browser, a URL in an email or a file on your Desktop and pop up Alfred's Actions panel to choose what to do with your content.

/help/features/universal-actions/

Installing Alfred

Here are the steps to get you started with installing Alfred.

/help/getting-started/install/

10 Great Uses for Alfred's Hotkeys

Kick your keyboard control into high gear. Take a look at how you can improve your workday by adopting these ten tricks and creating a few handy hotkeys of your own.

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Interview with Kitt Hodsden: Laziness Is A Virtue

We interview Kitt Hodsden, hackerdojo co-founder, previously Engineer at Twitter, and the 47th laziest developer in the world.

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Appearance & Theming

Choose your Alfred theme, and change Large Type and other appearance settings

/help/appearance/

File Search

Searching files, navigating through your file system and taking action on your files.

/help/features/file-search/

Alfred 3.3 Released: Access to Clipboard for Workflows and Snippets Added

This release adds access to clipboard history items for workflows and snippets, better control over 1Password vaults, a new way to access preferences and much more.

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Search Automation Tasks in Workflows

As of today, there as 218 Automation Tasks you can use to perform specific tasks in macOS completely script-free. Here's how you can use them easily in your own workflows.

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