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796: The Alfred Field Guide

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How To, Tech, Sparks, David, Set Up, Mac, Workflow, Ios, User, Help, Power, Stephen Hackett, Technology

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to Mac Power Users.

0:06.2

My name is Stephen Hacken.

0:07.4

I'm joined by my friend and yours.

0:09.5

Also, the man of the hour, Mr. David Sparks.

0:13.3

Hey, Stephen.

0:14.2

How are you today?

0:15.0

You're always the man of my hour, David.

0:17.6

You too, buddy.

0:18.7

You too.

0:22.0

You know, so sometimes we usually share what we're working on with each other, but you have been like quiet in our text thread the last several weeks.

0:32.5

And I was like, oh, I know what you're doing.

0:35.1

You're getting a field guide ready.

0:37.0

Yeah, Alfred Field Guide. It lives. So awesome. So awesome. So awesome. So that's, we're going to get into that day. We're going to talk about Alfred, what you can do with it. You know, I think it's basically kind of known like it's in the category of like app launchers. But like the like like its competitors, Alfred can do so many things.

0:57.5

So we're going to talk about some workflows, some automation stuff.

1:01.4

But first, I'd love to hear a little bit about the field guide itself.

1:06.0

Yeah, you know, it kind of grew out of my use of Alfred.

1:09.2

Like all the field guides are apps that I'm, I'm passionate about.

1:12.4

But I am very fast on my keyboard, on my Mac, and it's because of Alfred. You know, I've got all

1:18.3

these cool workflows and things plugged into it. And like, occasionally people look over my

1:22.9

shoulder and they're like, wait, what did you just do? And like, and like, for me, the idea of sending an attached email or something like that

1:29.9

is something where I would never touch a mouse because I've got Alfred kind of wired up.

1:33.9

And it's just those comments I get from people over the year saying, you know, how did you do

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