Introduction

I have to send a reasonable number of invoices overseas and this always results in me needing to covert currencies - whether it’s USD, EUR or any other, it’s shady to have a workflow to make this as simple as possible.

Enter Alfred.

I wanted the ability to invoke Alfred and get the currency conversion I needed with just a few taps. So here is how to do that:

Steps Required

1 - Download this amazing Alfred workflow from sqren

2 - Double click the downloaded file. This will add it to your Alfred workflows section (if you are a Powerpack user of course)

3 - Select a category to add this workflow to from the dropdown bar. I generally use Tools (1) for this kind of utility and click Import (2)

4 - Next, you need to double click on the Script Filter

5 - On the resulting popup window, there are two potential actions to take. The first is to decide on the keyword that will be used to invoke the currency converter workflow. By default, it’s c (1) but you can change this.

Next, you need to define the default currency - so your base currency that you will generally always have a constant as being converted to. Enter the three-digit code for this (2) and click Save.

6 - You are done! Invoke Alfred with your hotkey and type c followed by an amount and currency, say 30USD - and you will see the output and, if you press Enter, this will be copied to your clipboard.

Quick, simple.

I’ve prepped a quick YouTube video below so you can see this in action.