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+1 That's a feature i wanted to suggest too haha, would we awesome if Alfred hides for the moment as its sometimes in the way. 
I could move the window to the top right or so....but i don't want to

I realize Alfred 3 was just released so new features may not come for a while. The additions in this release led me to become a Mega Supporter and I wasn't even using Alfred before this release (I had used Alfred in the past, however) so thanks for the amazing work thus far.
 
Anyway, to my suggestion:
 
I am/was a daily user of aText. The one thing that would make Alfred completely replace aText for me is the ability to add snippet pop-ups (not the technical term, I'm sure). It's great that you can add simple things like {clipboard}{date}, etc., but taking it one step further would be great. In aText, you can insert a blank field so when you type a shortcut you are prompted with a field to fill in. Example:
 

 
This can also be useful for markdown, and other things I imagine. In aText I have a URL Markdown snippet that makes my clipboard contents the URL and a pop-up that allows me to enter any text for that. Example:
 

 
In case it helps, this snippet in aText looks like this: [【field:text】](【clipboard】)

Going further, it would be awesome to have arbitrary modifier keys as well, e.g. "this is {cmd+B} really {cmd+B} important."

I really like the {clipboard} variable in snippets, but it would be nice to be able to modify the clipboard as part of including it.
 
Regular Expression syntax is pretty heavy, but there are lots of references, and with the simple inclusion of a lib, it should be almost free to implement.
 
But I'd be happy with any reasonably powerful editing scheme. In particular, I like to turn the clipboard into Google search links, but they really should be "HTMLized" so that spaces are changed into plus signs, punctuation is removed, etc.
 
Here is an example: <a href="http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=Here is an example:">Here is an example:</a> But you really want the search to be "q=Here+is+an+example" (dropped punctuation) or "q=Here+is+an+example%3A" (HTMLized punctuation). With regular expressions, either would be easy to do.

Looking forward to this as well. It'd be useful to place the cursor at a particular location after expansion, too.

In light of replacing other text expansion tools with Alfred, I am missing two features in the beta version of Alfred 3:
 
I need the feature of having a text entry field after having triggered a snippet so that I can fill in missing information "at expansion time", e.g. a snippet like "Dear {name}, ..." should allow me to enter a replacement for {name} during expansion of the snippet. There is support for dynamic placeholders, but it seems that this is only for date, time and clipboard and not for "on expansion time" values since they would require a UI to enter the missing values.  
Here is an example from another implementation (Dash):
 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ztnzp22reoa8b9l/Sample_custom_dynamic_snippet.png?dl=0
 
 
I need (basic) rich text snippets which allow me to format parts of my snippet in bold, as list item etc. It looks like I can format the complete snippet as a whole only as of now.  
I am really looking forward to the next iteration of the snippets feature.
 

In Alfred 3 there are automatically expanded snippets by keywords. They are awesome and work almost flawlessly after enabling the appropriate accessibility feature.
 
As I understand, as you already have the code for detecting those keywords (I guess, by catching the consecutive key presses?), it shouldn't be hard to allowing using those keywords to trigger workflow actions.
 
This would allow us to call workflows from any textual input. So, instead of at first calling Alfred or a specific command here, you could just write the keyword for this command and alfred would either call the action or present you with the alfred input window for your workflow.
 
After calling the workflow the keyword should be deleted from the input, and you should have a way to replace it with the workflow's result.
 
That's the basic what could be done with catching the keywords, but what would be even cooler — catching non-static keywords by regexps. Instead of a static keyword like `foobar`, you could set it to `foo(\d+)bar`, for example, and it would call the workflow as soon as you'd write somewhere `foo1bar`, `foo3434bar` etc., with the variable parts of the regex match as input you could use in your workflow.
 
This would open a lot of possibilities for workflow authors.

Hi,
 
I would like to auto-fill forms with Snippets (v.3). Therefore I'd like to use the TAB command to navigate from one field (e.g. name) to the next (e.g. address).
 
The example would be:
 
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John Doe {TAB}
123 Fakestreet {TAB}
Mytown
 
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Or is there already a workaround for that?
 
Thanks.

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Two options:
1) the file action doesn't actually execute the crossref command, so you can always hit the HOME button and add a 'gs' before hitting enter.  It purposely doesn't try to automatically execute the command so that you can change the search type, and because the file action uses some heuristics and may not necessarily grab all the right keywords that you want.
2) Open up pdf2doi.py in the workflow and in line 54 replace 'ref' with 'gsref'.  Of course this will get overwritten with app updates.  If this becomes an issue I could add an option where the default search for the file action would be loaded from a config file or something.

Ask and you shall receive huh? Custom type works great! Thanks!

I thought I had come up with the minimalistest theme possible, and I was going to post it… until I saw yours and liked it better, so I made the switch. Well done! (I'm using white with 90% opacity)