Reprinted from TidBITS by permission; reuse governed by Creative Commons license BY-NC-ND 3.0. TidBITS has offered years of thoughtful commentary on Apple and Internet topics. For free email subscriptions and access to the entire TidBITS archive, visit http://www.tidbits.com/ Alfred 3.1 Agen G. N. Schmitz Running with Crayons has issued [1]Alfred 3.1 with a number of workflow and performance improvements for the keyboard-driven launcher. The update adds three new workflow objects (a Hide Alfred utility, plus Dispatch Key Combo and Call External Trigger output objects), improves overall responsiveness (particularly for the Actions panel and Large Type), enables use of Command-S and Escape as key combos in Remote configuration, updates the iTunes AppleScript to disable shuffle before playing an Alfred playlist, and tunes metadata queries for macOS 10.12 Sierra to improve performance. (Free, £17 for [2]Powerpack, 2.6 MB, [3]release notes, 10.9+) References 1. http://www.alfredapp.com/ 2. http://www.alfredapp.com/powerpack/ 3. http://www.alfredapp.com/changelog .