Not only can you launch apps this way, but you can open files, folders, emails and contacts, perform web searches, copy/move files and folders, and a whole host of other actions. Either hitting the Return key or selecting a Command-key option will open the selected item. As you begin typing the name of the app you want to open, Alfred starts displaying matches, narrowing down the list as you continue to type. Rather than clicking on an icon in your dock or rummaging through your Applications folder, you simply type a key-combination (Cmd+Space, in my case) to bring up a text input window. Yes, Alfred is an app-launching tool, but it can do so much more.Īt its most basic, Alfred is an app-launching utility. I’ve tried all of them and, while all have their merits, I eventually landed on Alfred by Running With Crayons and haven’t looked back. But when developer support fragmented, other apps like Launchbar and even Apple’s own Spotlight moved in to stake a claim. Quicksilver was one of the first of these utilities, and I was a big fan. So, it seems ironic that there’s a relatively new category of Mac productivity apps that lets us control our Macs from the keyboard. The introduction of the Macintosh back in 1984 helped release us from the bondage of the command-line interface.
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