Finally I purchase Alfred for workflows.
A Workflow is a combination of actions, and the killer feature in Alfred powerpack. In Alfred, we can import existing workflows or create our own workflows – to run a series of actions, which will dramatcially improve productivity.
My workflow lists
Before writing this post, I spent about half an hour on Alfred Workflows to go through all existing workflows based on the AlfredWorkflow repo by hzlzh and select following workflows as enhancement of Alfred.
There is another workflow repo by @zenorocha.
And here’s my lists.
| Workflows | usage |
|---|---|
| Add-task-to-Things | Use “task” to add task into Things. |
| Adium | Use “im {User}” to search online User in Adium |
| AlfredTweet-2 | Use “tweet” to send tweets |
| Baidu-Map | Use “bmap” to locate |
| Baidu_Search | Use “bd” to search on baidu |
| Dash | Use “dash” to search libaray/methods in Dash |
| Dianping | Use “dianping {merchants}” to search merchants |
| Douban | Use “book / movie / music” to search items on douban.com |
| Drop-in-Pocket | Use “pocket {URL}” to save webpage into pocket |
| Eject | Use “eject” to eject all ejectable devices |
| Evernote | Use “en {item}” to search item in evernote. Use “ennew” to create new note in evernote. |
| Kill+Process | Use “kill {process name}” to kill a process |
| Maven | Use “mvn” to find packges in maven |
| NPM-Search | Use “npm” to search node modules |
| Node.js-docs | Use “nodejs” to locate node libraris |
| Open-Airdrop | Use “airdrop” to activate Airdrop |
| pm2.5-alfred | Use “pm2.5 to search pm2.5 index”. (But seems using a restricted API ) |
| stackoverflow | Use “st” to search stuffs in stack overflow |
| zhihu | Use “zh” to search quesiton or people in zhihu, Use “zhdaily” to search in zhihu Daily |
| 有道翻译 | Use “yd {terms}” to search translation |
Install workflows
double click the workflows downloaded.
Some other tricks on Alfred
- Use it as a calculator. e.g. 3*2
- advance calculator could be run started with =. e.g. “=log(3)” or “=sin(1)”
- Use “> {command}” to run command in terminal.
- You could also setup which terminal to use {Terminal/iTerms}
I will update how many time I have been saved using Alfred later :)