Making the move from Alfred to Raycast
It all started with a tweet.
Why I use Alfred App (and maybe you should too)
I’ve used Alfred for years, and it’s one of the first apps I’ll install on a fresh Mac. It’s like the Cmd-Space search integration that MacOS has, but so much more than that. Here’s a few of the really powerful features that makes it the first app I’ll reach for to install on any new Mac - and which it’ll feel like I’m trying to work with one arm tied behind my back if I don’t have :)
Searching Alfred’s Clipboard history programatically
Alfred is one of my favourite productivity apps for the Mac. It’s a file indexer, a clipboard manager, a snippet expander - and that’s just scratching the surface really. I recently got a new machine without it installed and realised just how much I rely on Alfred, particularly its clipboard manager.
Migrating Alfred Clipboard to New Laptop
Alfred is one of my favourite productivity tools. One of its best features is the clipboard history, which when I moved laptops and it didn’t transfer I realised quite how much I rely on this functionality in my day-to-day work.
Whilst Alfred has the options to syncronise its preferences across machines, it seems that it doesn’t synchronise the clipboard database. To get it to work I did the following:
