I’ve only scratched the surface with this Spotlight-like tool (Apple’s Spotlight is starting to catch up with Alfred’s functionality), but I use Alfred for a host of quick fire actions, such as launching all the search functions available through Chrome mentioned above. On any system where you’d normally go to a bookmark, click search, enter the search phrase and click ‘go’, that adds up to a lot of click-saving! Alfredīeing British, I can’t help but not rely on my trusty butler – Alfred. For example, if I type ‘pc iOS’ in the URL bar, Chrome searches the PaperCut knowledgebase for the term ‘iOS’. Everything from our internal order system to the Knowledge base or our ticket system. Probably saves me hours a week – for any web-based tool where I’m constantly searching, I’ve created custom search engines to allow me to dive right into that system with the search term pre-loaded. Given that I have a Mac on my desk, the following tips are biased towards Mac tools, but there’s many that have Windows/Linux equivalents too! Everyone has shortcuts, ways of working, and preferred apps that they like to use – so I thought I’d outline a few tools and shortcuts that I’ve come to love over the years. Often when I use a different computer, I’m initially a little lost because the machine doesn’t necessarily have all the custom bits and bobs that I have set up to save me time.
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