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larve
i couldn't live without the dash workflow.
bjtitus
Why is that more useful than having a shortcut for Dash?

I've always just used the shortcut and searched in Dash. Although, I do tend to stick to mostly one set of documentation.

larve
usually just seeing the autocomplete on the alfred input answers my question :)
zeckalpha
I think Alfred has good design, but which of these couldn't be done with a properly configured terminal?
aroch
Not many, but the point is you don't need to call up a terminal window. There are various 'visor' implementations of terminals, but they annoy the crap out of me. I much prefer being able to invoke Alfred and doing short one-liners from it
cleversoap
I am the exact opposite, I prefer to do all these sorts of tasks in a 'visor' terminal and leave Alfred as little more than a pretty app launcher. Different strokes etc...
tankbot
Same here. I love Alfred but I often forget it's even around because of my visor terminal.
jimmcslim
Having originally been a Quicksilver user back in the day (ah.... Quicksilver) I jumped to Launchbar when QS started to become more and more unreliable (I'm aware that it has recently rearisen, like a phoenix, from the ashes).

But the workflow aspect of Alfred 2 is quite appealing, I should probably give it a shot for a while.

mwill
I've just realised something, although I love Alfred and bought a licence and cant work without it, I neglect almost all of its features. My main use for Alfred? App switching. I find it faster and more reliable that cmd+tab.
ihodes
I love Alfred and use it all the time, often for app-switching, but I also use Witch [1]. Big time-saver, especially for referring for documentation. Killer feature is switching between windows in the same application, something that is woefully impossible using the native OS X app switcher (something vanilla Windows has over vanilla OS X, hands-down).

[1]:http://manytricks.com/witch/

traek
You can use Cmd+~ to switch between application windows if they're in the same desktop.
unicornporn
+1 to this. I installed Witch when I started using OS X, but as soon as I found out about Cmd+~ I uninstalled it.
bosie
Technically that cycles through the windows, meaning they all get active and visible at some point. something you can avoid with Witch...
JEVLON
CTRL + Down brings up thumbnails of the current application's windows, though it isn't particularly keyboard friendly.
hboon
If you use Alfred, go to Alfred Preferences and click Usage, you'll see:

"Since 26 Mar, 2013, @alfredapp has been used 72,034 times. Average 393.6 times per day."

http://cl.ly/image/1L1S1a2B1R3M

christiangenco
Hot damn, you blew me away:

    Since 30 Oct, 2012, @alfredapp has been used 3,492 times. Average 10.5 times per day
hboon
I don't know what happened to my earlier stats, maybe v1's stats was lost. But I think I was consistently 200+ or 300+ a day once I gotten used to using it. Works incredibly well as a task switcher once you map a few key single characters to apps (like v/vMacVim, x/Xcode, i/iTerm, s/Safari, c/Chrome etc).
FireBeyond
How are you doing this? A simple hotkey, or … ?
hboon
Just the hotkey for Alfred. I use Cmd-space. No app-specific shortcut. But after you press a key in the search bar, you can press alt-1 etc to make your selection. Repeat it a few times for the same key and the order of the results will be updated.
biscarch
Alfred is awesome. I often use it for opening browser workflows and launching quick scripts to do things like open specific JIRA tickets.
Shank
I really wish that this could be ported to Windows or Linux. I haven't heard much from the developer about that when asked; but it seems like a far fetched goal right now.

Does anyone have suggestions for Windows that aren't Launchy (or, Launchy addons/improvements to use)?

blumkvist
just glanced over it, because im terribly busy, check out gnome-do.
LTheobald
I wouldn't hold your breath on that. The Alfred team are sticking to what they are good at - Mac development. Porting something to Windows (and doing it natively) is a huge chunk of work & all the time you wouldn't be working on improving the existing product.
gaving
Regularly disappointed there isn't a better solution on Windows (other than Launchy).

Mind you, regularly disappointed I have to actually use Windows on a daily basis so.

ecaradec
You can try mine http://emmanuelcaradec.com/qatapult which is more of a replacement for Quicksilver than for Alfred.

It's a bit on hold for the moment but you can extend it in javascript and build new skins as well.

It's definitively not as polished as Alfred and there are a few things that are broken like catalogs.

Before that I used FARR which I like better than Launchy and is more like Alfred ihmo, it has a ton of options and can trigger some plugins on regex matchs.

lsdr
It is a nice bundle indeed. One workflow I found is missing, though, is Dev Doctor: http://wemakeawesomesh.it/alfred-dev-doctor

Easy to use, quick access to several languages (python, ruby, js, clojure) base documentation.

WickyNilliams
Agreed I love dev doctor, it's indispensably useful! I use it all the time.

Disclosure: personal friend wrote dev doctor.

coderholic
Very cool! I've been a long time Alfred user but hadn't upgraded to the power pack before. This finally convinced me. I just put together my first workflow (ip details - info at http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/3157-ipinfo-workflow-ip-add...). It's really simple to do and very flexible. I can see myself building more and more of these and them becoming a regular part of my "workflow".