⚡ Never open your browser to look for help again ⚡

Are you a hack programmer? Do you find yourself constantly Googling for how to do basic programming tasks?

Suppose you want to know how to format a date in bash. Why open your browser and read through blogs (risking major distraction) when you can simply stay in Alfred and ask:

$ howdoi properly use tar command
> tar -czf /tmp/workspace.tar.gz .

• Make sure howdoi is installed on your machine with brew install howdoi.
• Install [howdoi for Alfred](the https://alfred.app/workflows/gleitz/howdoi/) from the Alfred Gallery.

Invoke the Alfred workflow with the keyword Question Keyword (default: howdoi) and then your query. The output will be shown as large type and also copied to the clipboard. Use ⌘↩ to open the answer's web page instead.

New to howdoi? You can get started by running:

howdoi howdoi

If howdoi is installed to a non-standard Homebrew location (or with pip) then you need to tell Alfred about your appropriate PATH.

• Open the Workflow in Alfred
• Click "prepare workflow configuration" in the top right (the icon looks like (x))
• Select the "Environment Variables" tab
• Make a new entry with name PATH and value as the text output of entering echo $PATH in a terminal (e.g. /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Users/username/.homebrew/bin)

• howdoi github page