Alfred is a productivity application for macOS, which boosts your efficiency with hotkeys, keywords, and text expansion. Alfred community has developed thousands of workflows to help users to become more productive and shorten task time.
Below is my favorite recommendation of Alfred workflows that I have been using almost every day. is saves a lot of time with other Alfred build-in functions like clipboard management.
I have tested the below workflows, which are compatible with the latest macOS BigSur and M1 apple silicon macs.
NOTE: to start Alfred use. use Option + Space keys
Zoom with alfred
Zoom with Alfred is one of the amazing and fastest workflow to join scheduled/re-accruing zoom meetings. Instead of opening your email to view meeting details, clicking on the link, and you have to allow launching the meeting from your browser, it could take up to 2 minutes to complete the whole process each time. What if I told you we could establish a Zoom meeting as quickly as possible in just one or two seconds of just typing “zm” in Alfred. and that’s it.
All you have to do is to “Define” a meeting for the first time only with Metting URL. we can also use the long URL that includes the meeting encrypted password, it will launch the meeting without prompting you for the password.
- Add or Define a new meeting
zma <meeting URL>
# example
zma https://zoom.us/j/<Meeting_ID>?pwd=<password>
- Delete a meeting from the LIst use
zmd <meeting>Keyword: zm
StrongPassword
Passwords provide the first line of defense against unauthorized access to your computer and personal information. The stronger your password, the more protected your computer will be from hackers and malicious software. You should maintain strong passwords for all accounts on your computer and Internet services.
StrongPassword workflow provides the ability to Get or Generates a strong password by leveraging multiple sources.
The following examples show the creation of a strong password that includes 12 characters, you have the option to include or exclude special characters.
# default with 64 Character
sp
# Specify a number of Characters e.g. Generates 12 character password use
sp 12Keyword: sp
Page URL
Convert
Convert between different units offline. Personally use it almost every day to convert between units, a convenient unit conversion tool
conv 100usd eur
conv 100ft cm
conv 128 mph kph
conv 100psi barPage URL
New File from Last Clipboard
Create a new file in Finder from clipboard contents.
nfc newfile.txtKeyword: nfc
Page: URL
Timezones
A customized world clock shows al list of user-configured cities with their current local times
- Add City.
timezone add <your city>- Delete City.
Simply select an item in the list while holding down the option key to remove a city
Keyword: tz, timezone
Page: URL
Network Info
Displays information about IP(Private and Public) and mac for all interfaces including VPN using “ip” or “mac” commands
Keywords: ip, mac
Page: URL
Coffee
Prevent your computer from going to sleep.
- Run coffee again to manually turn it off.
Page:
Process Control
Call top for an auto-updating list of processes, ordered by CPU usage. Type to filter by process name.
On each process:
- ⌘. quits.
- ⌥. forcibly kills.
- ⌃. limits CPU usage.
- fn. lowers priority (increases niceness).
- ⇧ freezes.
Keyword: top
Wordswith
Find words that contain a particular pattern
Picking a word will then call Alfred with define, so you can see the meaning by selecting the interesting word, and redirects to “define”
Keyword: wws
Moment
Advanced time utility, Displays current time and past or future time in a very simple format.
Keyword: moment
Page: URL
Summary
| Workflow | Command | Link |
| Zoom with Alfred | zm zma <URL> zmd <delete> | Download |
| strong passwords | sp | Download |
| convert | conv | Download |
| new file | nfc | Download |
| Timezones | tz Timezone <city> | Download |
| Network Info | ip mac | Download |
| Coffee | Coffee 1h | Download |
| Process Control | top | Download |
| Wordswith | wws <word> | Download |
| Moment | moment | Download |
Please let me know if there is other workflows you are using to add to this list after testing.
