LAUNCHBAR VS. ALFRED PASSWORD

For the sake of this example, let’s compare the “About Apple” paragraph of text from two Apple press releases. Let’s assume you have found two pieces of text on the web that you want to compare. This wouldn’t be the Kaleidoscope Blog without offering a good integration with Kaleidoscope.

Saves me quite a few roundtrips and makes working smoother. When I’m done, I head back to Ulysses and paste them in where I need them by making use of the Alfred Clipboard History. Instead of going back and forth between Ulysses (the app used to write this article) and Safari (to retrieve the page URLs), I can instead collect all URLs in one go and just put them onto the clipboard by finding the product pages and hitting ⌘C. For the first paragraph, I needed to gather a few URLs of those products. Quite convenient in itself, but for me, the real power comes from changing how you work as a result.Ĭonsider the article you are reading right now.

Now you get to see a list of stuff stored and can immediately access the last 10 items by pressing enter or ⌘1 to ⌘9. Hit enter to confirm.īringing up the Clipboard Viewer in Alfred If you want to access that stored data and use it, simply invoke the direct keyboard shortcut (I have set mine to ⌥⌘C, but can never remember it), or double-tap the control key (⌃⌃) and type the letter c, which offers the Clipboard Viewer as a first search result.

LAUNCHBAR VS. ALFRED PASSWORD

Of course, there are lots of options to customize that behavior, like ignoring certain types of data or certain source apps (like password managers). Whatever you copy to the clipboard gets stored by Alfred. Where does that stuff go, and how do I retrieve it? Nowadays, with Universal Clipboard and multiple Apple devices, this even includes your iPhone and iPad-amazing in itself. The Alfred clipboard history just keeps the last x items you copied to the clipboard (typically using ⌘C), from whatever source. Clipboard History: The Feature You Never Knew You Needed. To my delight, there is a very recent blog article over at on exactly that topic, even with the perfect title. This enables muscle memory to work on my behalf. As I hate memorizing keyboard shortcuts, I have set Alfred preferences to have it show up by double-tapping the control (⌃) key.

Launchbar vs. alfred