App Spotlight: Boosting Mac Productivity with Alfred Workflows

Company lunch and learn covering a brief demo of the Mac productivity app Alfred and how it can be used to streamline your personal workflows.

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1. App Spotlight:
   Alfred
   

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2. What is Alfred?
   And why it matters
   

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3. Alfred is Spotlight on Steroids
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4. “
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   "It's crazy to think, but I probably
   use Alfred 100x or more in my
   day. The custom workflows, web
   searches, clipboard history, file
   search, app launcher, preference
   syncing, spell check, dictionary
   support, and more make it so
   damn useful."
   James Bull, Design Lead at
   Shopify
   

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5. Some Alfred basics
   ⬡ Find files ridiculously fast
   ⬡ Share the guest wifi password
   ⬡ Send emails
   ⬡ Insert frequently used snippets
   ∙ Templates
   ∙ Stripe cards
   ⬡ Manage your clipboard
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6. Unlock the true
   power of Alfred
   with workflows
   

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7. Popular Alfred Workflows
   ⬡ Google translate anything on the fly
   ⬡ Check the time in London
   ⬡ Look up that dev function (caniuse,
   devdocs)
   ⬡ Run Zapier for Alfred
   ⬡ Find the right emoji… ✨
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8. Make it your own
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9. Maple Workflows
   ⬡ TW shortcuts:
   ∙ Upcoming milestones in TW
   ∙ Open any TW space
   ∙ Jump to a tasklist
   ∙ Search spaces
   ⬡ Automate recurring tasks
   ∙ Running meetings (e.g. pointing)
   ∙ Routine tasks (e.g. pull reviews)
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10. Resources
    ALFRED WORKFLOWS
    Maple workflows: https://github.com/getmaple/maple-alfred-workflows (need GitHub access, or David can send)
    Maximising your Mac Productivity with Alfred: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWRddk0Ybnc (great 101 intro
    to Alfred 4)
    Zapier for Alfred: https://zapier.com/blog/zapier-for-alfred/
    DevDocs: https://github.com/yannickglt/alfred-devdocs
    Google Translate: https://github.com/xfslove/alfred-language-configuration &
    https://github.com/xfslove/alfred-google-translate
    Mail search for Alfred: http://www.packal.org/workflow/mailapp-search
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    Thanks!
    Any questions?
    

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12. Credits
    Special thanks to SlidesCarnival for
    releasing this presentation template for
    free.
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