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Alfred 5.5 — Alfred makes friends with ChatGPT and DALL-E
Alfred 5.5 is now available, with the huge exciting addition of the Grid, Text, Image and PDF views that bring your Alfred results to life in a whole new way!
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Long time Alfred user — but drifted towards Raycast because it embraced the web, web services, OAuth, and modern productivity.
I'm not sure what changed on the Alfred side, but I'm glad to see that it's coming into the future, slowly, with its 5.5 release.
I used Alfred before OSX had Spotlight. Great to see they have integrated AI. Makes me think that Apple might probably integrate Gemini into Spotlight with their partnership.
@jsteneros (I deeply apologize for the forthcoming nerdsnipe but) macOS has had Spotlight since Tiger in 2005, and Alfred came out in 2011!
@arix lol You are probably right. But it was not working as good as Alfred for me. I remember the speed of Alfred being the reason I liked it so much.
Alfred user since 2018. Use it every 10 minutes or so 🤣 Super cool to be able to talk to ChatGPT directly from Alfred. Would love to have a workflow that integrates the Perplexity Online API
@nicocaramella Sounds like the Perplexity API is conveniently similar to the ChatGPT one, so it might be as simple as changing the API endpoint in the workflow Environment Variables.
There's a thread on alternative models on the forum, where you can join the conversation if you'd like to try using Perplexity as another option: https://www.alfredforum.com/topi...
Been using and creating workflows in Alfred since 2018. It feels like every couple of weeks an idea pops into my head for some task that I can automate or make faster with Alfred. Out of the box Alfred is quite powerful, but the true limitless power is unlocked once you start diving into and customizing or creating your own workflows. 5.5 is the biggest update I think I've seen in Alfred's history (or at least in several years) and I can't wait to make use of the new features.
This is a great product! How can I contact the team? Would love to learn more about it!
@hhendrix You can discover Alfred workflows on the Gallery: https://alfred.app
And you can join our community forum, where we sneak preview new features and exchange ideas with our excellent workflow creators: https://www.alfredforum.com
Congratulations on the release of Alfred 5.5! 🎉 The inclusion of Grid, Text, Image, and PDF views is a remarkable enhancement that significantly improves Alfred's functionality.
I LOVE Alfred, been using it for a couple of years already. Really cool feature added! Going to try it right now
Congrats on the launch of Alfred 5.5! 🎉 The addition of Grid, Text, Image, and PDF views is a fantastic enhancement to Alfred's functionality.
How do you envision the new Grid, Text, Image, and PDF views transforming the way users interact with Alfred, and what inspired their implementation in this latest release? Can't wait to explore the possibilities!
@yasec_kowalski We've created the ChatGPT / DALL-E workflow, the Thumbnail Navigation workflow and the Memory Pairs game to name just three of the new workflows that take advantage of the new Views.
You can see the ChatGPT workflow in action in this video:
Community members have created some "notepad" workflows for scribbling notes on the go, added the Grid view to browse their photoshoot libraries more efficiently, etc. There is SO much flexibility in what can be created with these views. 😃
Even without workflows, you can use the new views directly from Alfred's Universal Actions, as you'll see a new "View in Alfred" universal action to quickly preview Markdown, images, PDFs and text files within Alfred or from Finder.
Alfred 5.5 maintains Alfred's status for rock solid stability and versatility embedded in a tiny app. 5.5 is a superb release adding new features which comprise great enhancements that are simple to incorpoate in workflows. As with most things Alfred-related you really don't need to be a skilled programmer to create useful and sophisticated workflows with little effort—and, for the likes of me, that is a huge advantage.
(Full disclosure: I've used Alfred for years and am a moderator on the Alfred forum.)
Have used Alfred for over a decade and no Mac I've ever owned has felt complete until Alfred is up and running. This new ChatGPT integration is super helpful for me as someone who doesn't use ChatGPT very often, but now I am able to trigger it within a couple of seconds from my existing workflow and copy+paste the result right from Alfred without having to open an app or browser somewhere else.... will always support Alfred and it's great to see how actively developed the app is whilst remaining so bug-free, performant and well thought out!
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