I installed Alfred on Sunday, and am trying to adjust.
For all of the Alfred-switchers in here - does anyone else find the folder navigation pretty unintuitive? Or am I doing it wrong?
LaunchBar / QS's approach:
Type "Documents" to bring up folder, use up & down to select things, and left or right arrows to drill into them. Typing anything searches everything within the current folder. So intuitive to me!
Alfred:
"Documents" brings up folder, Command+Down(?) to open it. Then use up & down to select things, and Command+Down to drill in. If you want to say, open a folder in Finder, you have to hit Command+O or "Enter" and "Enter". You can search but only by the first letters in the filename (not "pdf") .
So for your converts - what's the deal, do you prefer this style, am I doing it wrong, or do you just get used to it..?
I couldn't adjust. Alfred may not be trying to be Quicksilver, but where it does go its own way it feels actively worse.
Everything in QS is very regular, Object-Verb style interaction with fuzzy completion of both. Alfred has a wartier, more irregular interaction model: it's Verb-Object if you want to type the verb, but it seems to push you into command key combos, which operate on a Object-Verb basis, and there doesn't feel like much logic as to what's available as what.
Have you tried using the right arrow to go into your Documents folder?
E.g. Type "docu", Documents shows up as top results, right arrow, then pick your action either by arrow down or cmd + number.
If all you want to do is open a folder, prefix your search term by "open" or hit the spacebar first (shortcut for "open"). If you want to reveal it in Finder, just type "find" first, and if you want to search inside files, just type "in" first.
If you give Alfred a chance (and accept that it isn't trying to be Quicksilver), you'll really get into a groove with it.
Cmd-Down open folders and launches apps/docs in Finder too. I've never used Cmd-O/Enter for that task. To me, Alfred seems much more consistent with my use of OSX key commands than Quicksilver's left/right/tab/enter scheme.
For all of the Alfred-switchers in here - does anyone else find the folder navigation pretty unintuitive? Or am I doing it wrong?
LaunchBar / QS's approach: Type "Documents" to bring up folder, use up & down to select things, and left or right arrows to drill into them. Typing anything searches everything within the current folder. So intuitive to me!
Alfred: "Documents" brings up folder, Command+Down(?) to open it. Then use up & down to select things, and Command+Down to drill in. If you want to say, open a folder in Finder, you have to hit Command+O or "Enter" and "Enter". You can search but only by the first letters in the filename (not "pdf") .
So for your converts - what's the deal, do you prefer this style, am I doing it wrong, or do you just get used to it..?