January 2, 2023

Use Commas with Alfred's Calculator

One annoyance with the Mac app Alfred is by default it doesn’t support commas in numbers when trying to do calculations:

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This has been an annoyance of mine for a long long time, but Benjamin Borowski on Twitter shared a hot tip on how to enable that and it’s pretty simple, you just have to find the right setting.

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Alfred settings -> features -> calculator -> Input -> check “ignore thousands grouping separator”. Then you can use the thousands separator:

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