[simonebrunozzi]

I keep hearing about Alfred, and frankly I don't know why but I'm missing the reasons why so many people rave about it. I've tried it only once, a while ago, and perhaps I wasn't in the right mood to appreciate it.

Does anyone here uses it, and can ELI5 to me why Alfred is so good?

[cvak]

My personal highlights from using it:

- you can control your whole machine with it, so I don't have to use mouse anymore for - sleep/shut down/volume/

- extra indexing for folders/documents/images

- web search in different sites (gmail/wiki/amazon,....)

- clipboard history

- snippets (ascii art for luls ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, but most importantly I use this for script snippets I need to use in some UIs/ when I'm remote in some vim session in some server

- workflow - MS ToDo implementation, quick little things like switch off wifi, set dns to 1.1.1.1/unset, ...

- least but not last, never had a problem with db update beeing stuck on indexing and taking 150% CPU like with spotlight

[simonebrunozzi]

Interesting. Thanks for sharing it. You just re-ignited my desire to try it out again :)

[DevoidSimo]

Mainly the fact it's extensible. If you have something you do commonly do you can set up a shortcut for it. I use it a lot at work for quickly jumping to specific pages of internal websites, or converting hex codes to decimal. It also replaces spotlight.

Some examples that you can just install without writing your own: https://www.alfredapp.com/workflows/