Applications

Find an application by simply typing its name in the Alfred window. Hit "return" to launch it or, for Powerpack users, hit tab to perform an action on the app.

Fuzzy / Non exact searching

You may want to find Applications using more ambiguous search terms, there are 2 ways that you can do this:

Spotlight Comments

The most efficient way of finding Applications with different terms is by tagging the Application with a Spotlight Comment. This can be done in Finder -> Get Info for the Application. If you tag TextMate with the Spotlight Comment 'tm', Alfred will find TextMate when you type tm.

You can tag Applications with more than one term, so you could for example tag all browsers with the 'browser' keyword. When typing browser in Alfred, you will then see all of your browsers.

Fuzzy Matching

By enabling fuzzy matching, Alfred will match non-continuous characters of Application's name, therefore 'ff' will match Firefox and 'tm' will match TextMate. This can have an adverse affect on Alfred's performance, returning more results than necessary.

Enabling "Anchored" makes Alfred fuzzy match from the beginning of the string making this function more precise and perform better.

Note: The fuzzy features are still in development and will improve with time.

Search Term

Search for apps by file system name, as an alternative to display name only. This is useful for people with OS X in a non-English locale who want to search for applications in English.