Using panels

Panels are the basic blocks of the User Interface. A panel rests in a panel group. A panel group can contain multiple panels. Panels can be closed and opened. You can organize the panels by drag and drop. Panel groups can hide the title of its containing panels if the panel is too small. You can save and load how your panels are configured with panel configurations.

Basic interactions

Open a panel

In case you are missing a panel, you can open the panel.

You can’t open a panel if the panel group is maximized.

  1. Hover over 🗖 in the sidebar.
    The panels in light grey are already open in Alfred Finder. You can open the same panel more than once, but that is not recommended because it uses space.
  2. Click and drag the panel to the preferred position.
    The position of the panel appears as a grey outline.
  3. Drop the panel.

Close a panel

  1. Click × in the tab of the panel.

Closing a panel

Move a panel

  1. Click on the title of the panel and drag the panel to the preferred position.
    The possible position of the panel appears in grey.
  2. Drop the panel.

Make hidden panels visible

In case a panel group has not enough space to show all its panels, it will hide some panels. This does not mean that the panels are closed. Their titles are just hidden. The space for the panels depends on the browser, text size and screen resolution.

  1. Click ⏷ in the title bar of the panel group.
  2. Click on the name of the panel you will make visible.

Panel group layout

You can change the layout of a panel group by maximizing, minimizing, resizing and closing.

Maximize a panel group

You can maximize the active panel of the panel group to have a complete overview of the active panel.

  1. Click 🗖 Maximize in the panel group.

Minimize a panel group

You can minimize the panel group to return to the previous overview with the different panels and panel groups.

  1. Click 🗕 Minimize in the panel group.

Resize a panel group

  1. Hover over a boundary of two panel groups until you see a double arrow.
  2. Drag and drop the boundary.

Resizing a panel group

Close a panel group

  1. Click × in the panel group.

Closing a panel group

Panel configurations

You can configure the way the panels are placed in the finder. This is called a panel configuration.

Save a new panel configuration

Save a new panel configuration (Method 1)

You can save and store how your panels are placed in a panel configuration.

  1. Open, drag and move your panels in a configuration you prefer.
  2. Click ⋮ > Layout > Save current.
    A dialog asking for the name to save the panel as pops up.
  3. Enter the name of the panel configuration.
  4. Click OK.

Save a new panel configuration (Method 2)

You can save and store how your panels are placed in a panel configuration.

  1. Open, drag and move your panels in a configuration you prefer.
  2. Hover over the layout icon in the sidebar.
  3. Click in the field Save current.
  4. Enter the name of the panel configuration.
  5. Click +.

The panel configuration is added to the list of configurations.

Saving a new layout

Load a panel configuration

Load a panel configuration (Method 1)

You can load a saved panel configuration.

  1. Click ⋮ > Layout.
  2. Click on the layout you want to load.

Load a panel configuration (Method 2)

You can load a saved panel configuration.

  1. Hover over the layout icon in the sidebar.
  2. Click on the layout you want to load.

Load the default configuration

Load the default configuration (Method 1)

  1. Click ⋮ > Layout.
  2. Click DEFAULT.

Load the default configuration (Method 2)

  1. Hover over the layout icon in the sidebar.
  2. Click DEFAULT.