Alfred is one of my besties. Without needing to reach for my trackpad, I have so many cool activities available from my keyboard, and I’m pretty sure I haven’t dug into all of its features. Most of these are work related.
Forty custom searches helps speed my workflow. A few dozen snippets, such as:
- pre–defined replies, some with dynamic placeholders to be substituted for a URL
- my home address
- email addresses
- frequent usernames and URLs; the latter used when replying to site owners at work
- email signatures (personal and work)
- ASCII art
Handy calculator. Blazing fast file navigator (I rarely use Finder). A custom workflow that opens my work applications with a single keyword. Several other nifty workflows from talented, determined people. System commands, like Sleep, Shut Down, Empty Trash, or Quit All Applications.
Display large text across your screen so you can share with someone across the room — and everyone in between. (Command-L, or Command-Option-L to display a phone number rather than a calculation.)
Most importantly, instead of using Google to check spelling:
Why do you love Alfred? I’d love your suggestions — please leave a comment!
All Narfed Up 
I use the calculator on Alfred daily, and the dictionary/thesaurus a lot too. My favorite are the workflows though. One that I use a lot is hex code to rgb colors. And being able to open Terminal, ssh into a sandbox, and svn up by simply typing “sandbox” is fantastic.
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I’d been looking for a faster way to use Finder and it hadn’t occurred to me that Alfred could do this. Just using ‘down gives me the Downloads folder, for example. Thanks for the awesome tip!
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