Alfred Clipboard History actions
Did you know that Alfred's Clipboard History has actions that can be run on the clipboard's contents?
I happened onto this totally by accident. The other day I had a URL on the clipboard and I wanted to open it in Safari.
I knew I could open Safari, navigate to the address bar (⌘+L), activate the clipboard (⌥+⌘+C ), and paste the URL.
That's four steps. It would be nice if I could open the URL in Safari directly from the clipboard. I know that the right → opens additional actions for some items in the Alfred bar so I thought I would try that on a clipboard item. Magically a list of actions opened up.
I discovered that this is part of the Universal Actions feature in Alfred version 4.5. By the way, actions can also be triggered with the Universal Actions keyboard shortcut ⌥+⌘+\.
Alfred 4.5 is an exciting milestone, bringing you a whole new way to use Alfred!
With the new Universal Actions feature, you can select text in your browser, a URL in an email or a file on your Desktop and pop up Alfred's Actions panel to choose what to do with your content. Start anywhere and jump into action.
If you're using Alfred and not using Universal Actions you should take the time to check it out.