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If you don’t know, Alfred is one of the hottest app launcher applications out there today. If you haven’t checked it out, grab it off the Mac App Store (download link). It makes finding apps and documents extremely simple, and amazingly this app is free! I’ve been using the app for months, and it’s one of those things you can’t live without once you start using it. (If you love Alfred, make sure you support their devs and check out the Alfred Power Pack!)

Prior to the release of QuickCal 2.3 (MAS Link), the developer of Alfred came to us with a great idea – why not do some work to QuickCal that would enable a really slick/streamlined integration directly into Alfred? What an awesome idea! So, with his suggestion and some work between our teams, we think we have a great solution for you.

Here’s how to link these two awesome apps together!

Step 1: Click this link: QuickCal/Alfred Auto-Configuration, and say ‘Oh Yes!’ to Alfred when it asks if you want to import the custom QuickCal search.

Step 2: The next time you launch Alfred, if you’d like to enter a QuickCal entry, just preceed what you’d type in QuickCal normally with the word ‘cal’.

Step 3: Hit enter, and QuickCal window will show up to allow you to confirm all entries are correct. Hit enter, and you’re done!

The next release of QuickCal will support an even MORE streamlined integration, where you will have the option of creating QuickCal events directly from Alfred without the extra confirmation step in QuickCal! This is a bit dangerous for new users (without any feedback in Alfred for what was created), but for our long-time QuickCal users we think this is will be a great addition!

And we know there’s some of you using other app launchers – Christian has written up a nice post on integration into them as well. Feel free to contribute to this post if you use an app launcher not listed.