Comments on: Alfred Is About To Get A Whole Lot Better

By: Tobias

Tobias — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:06:33 +0000

Thanks for making such a great product! I absolutely love how lightning fast Alfred is, it runs loops around Spotlight and QuickSilver. I’d really like to support its development, but honestly the Powerpack doesn’t appeal to me at all. I understand that there’s a lot of productivity-types out there that want to be able to do everything under the sun using just their keyboard, but for me I value the simplicity of something that can do just one thing (lauching applications) really really well. By the same token, 12 pounds seems kinda steep. For 1 or 2 pounds, I wouldn’t think twice about purchasing what’s now the “free” Alfred.

By: Tobias

Tobias — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:58:15 +0000

I’d just like to say that for the love of god please don’t do this, at least by default anyway. It’s the one thing that drove me completely barmy in Quicksilver. I’m used to text fields behaving a certain way, and when I make a typo I automatically hit backspace and correct it. Most of the problems I encountered with Quicksilver had to do with the auto reset breaking my search term up half way through.

By: Alfred then, now and moving forward « Alfred App – Mac OS X Quicklaunch Application

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:57:14 +0000

[...] been a while since I wrote my last post on the blog (Alfred is about to get a whole lot better) and I am over the moon with how much progress I’ve made with Alfred in the last 6-7 weeks. [...]

By: Judi Sohn

Judi Sohn — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:39:08 +0000

I just purchased a powerpack license sight unseen. I think Alfred is the best OS X launcher I have ever used, including QuickSilver and LaunchBar. Even if I never use a single advanced feature, $18US was well worth supporting your continued development of this great little tool. Thanks!

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 03:08:59 +0000

I made the switch from Spotlight to Quicksilver back to Spotlight, and finally to Alfred several months back, and couldn’t be happier. I’m definitely looking forward to the power packs, and greatly appreciate the time and effort (and sense of ethics) that you put into your product, like so many others.

Good luck and keep up the fantastic work!

Cheers!

By: Zettt

Zettt — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:26:43 +0000

Yes, that’s really not implement at the moment. What about pressing ⌘A and then just write the new search?

By: Look

Look — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:18:28 +0000

it’s the only thing that’s keeping me from switching to Alfred!

By: Karl Erik Jessen

Karl Erik Jessen — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:01:21 +0000

Sorry I wasn’t clear enough about this:

When you are typing a search string in QS and type a wrong letter you can hesitate for x seconds (.5 seconds < x < 3 seconds – configurable) and the search field is cleared and you can start typing again. This is instead of and much easier than using backspace to delete the wrong letter.

(This is definitely not a complaint – just a feature request)

By: Zettt

Zettt — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:20:05 +0000

Nothing to complain about: http://yfrog.com/mmhs9p

By: Karl Erik Jessen

Karl Erik Jessen — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:16:15 +0000

Have used Quicksilver for some years but has now totally switched to Alfred. Alfred is “nice and easy” – as it should be

I reckon I have started using things in Alfred that also were there in QS – someway Alfred is easier to understand than QS (really only used QS for app launching)

The ONLY thing that I am missing from QS is the “Reset search after x seconds”: Just hesitate if you do a typo. I would definitely vote for that facility in Alfred

And it’s nice you are communicating so much about what’s going on with Alfred. QS has felt a bit abandoned the last couple of years