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If you update to b68 from http://media.alfredapp.com/v2beta/, you can now click the flock wallpaper in the theme editor to see your theme against different background colours

Preface:  Please bear with me on this one, I was a bit excited writing about this feature request so I am sure I repeat myself plenty but a quick read and the screenshot should tell it all. Thank you!
 
The workflow section is amazing and with the new layout of workflows I think it would be even better if workflow creators could give users notes about usage and possible variables that need to be adjusted or can be adjusted in various scripts located throughout the workflow.
 
Yes, I know titles and subtext exist to explain the basic idea behind what a workflow does, but as of now if different parameters can be set within a script the developer either comments the parameters in the script itself, which is always good practice or in the worst case scenario no comments exist and the user searches through the code to figure out what the parameters can be used by double clicking the script icon in the workflow to view the script and/or search for comments containing information about different parameters that the script can take advantage of.
 
I hope this will clear up what I am getting at:
 
Take for example one of Pedro Lobo's wonderful workflows: "Spotlight Comments" - Pedro always comments his code very neatly for users to view parameters and makes a detailed installation and usage instructions for his users wherever he posts the workflow. When a repository is up and running and these wonderful detailed instructions are not joined with the actual workflow download the user is missing a lot.
 
This is what Pedro posted with his workflow:
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"Installation and Setup
  Download and import. As for setup, there isn’t much to it. Simply define what your desired default action should be when encountering existing comments. Change property defaultOverwrite : "append"  accordingly. Possible options are append, replace and interactive.   Extension Usage   Triggering the extension and entering text without any of the following parameters will default the the behaviour discussed above, with the exception of delete of course. -d — Will remove any spotlight comment from the selected files; -a — Will append to existing comments; -r — Will replace existing comments; -i — Will function interactively allowing you to decide on a file by file basis. It will display the existing comment to facilitate your decision too  There is no need to leave any space after the parameter but you can do so if you prefer (it will be stripped from the begging) 
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Sometimes after you download a workflow you forget all of this wonderful information.
 
Solution: 
 
 

 
 
 
In the workflow "environment" allow for the developer and users the option of inserting a text field that spanned the bottom of the workflow screen that can be added by the workflow creator and especially the user to make comments about the workflow.
 
1) It could be used for jotting ideas while creating workflows.
2) Wouldn't require remembering where a workflow was downloaded from and visiting that site (if a site is listed in details) to learn more about it.
3) Usage instructions would be right their for you to see at a glance.
4) When making modifications to someone else's workflow, note your changes.
 
So many great uses for a feature like this and I beg of you, If you implement any feature I ask for during this beta period, PLEASE let it be this one!!
 
Keep interface clean:
The text Field could slide up from the bottom if added and then collapsed again to make the workflow view clean and pretty but when you need the details or want to make a quick note, you can pull it up and edit away never again forgetting important info about the workflow.
 
I am sure Andrew will have a great way to implement this. Please vote it up so it happens, thank you to everyone for sharing their workflows and again to the Alfred team for letting me beta test and make feature requests. Cheers!

I was a huge fan of that option in Alfred v.1! 
 
I hope you'll bring it back

Search Mail.app for email messages matching the search query passed.
 
http://d.pr/f/FVd2
 
A few have reported with this not working so I went back and added the option in mdfind to search in a specific folder so that hopefully it would find those results. Report any issues
 
UPDATE: Based on schoeps comment below, I realized that the search I was performing was queueing off of kMDItemKind == 'Mail Message' and depending on your local language, that may not be the appropriate value. So I changed it to search on kMDItemContentType which should be the same across the board. I have confirmed that it works in English and Italian at least.
 
UPDATE: I removed the -onlyin argument from mdfind. Removing the specified folder helps in finding the files with alternate language OS's.

Hey guys,
 
here is a Google Translate workflow i made based on Anders Bech Mellson's work. Once again, I don't want to take credit for a work that isn't mine. I'm just feeding back to alfred the results of an already good extension.
 
Press enter to copy to clipboard, FN to look up on the actual translate.google.com website. 
 
It's really easy to add / remove / edit for your own set of languages, just look at the workflow.
 
http://cl.ly/MAI3

Hey guys, 
 
so I'm not trying to steal anybody's thunder here so let me start by saying that Ryan Paul and Stephen Millard did all the work here.
 
I just compiled the whole thing in one workflow with which you can create a new note, add content to a previous one, search a note by title in alfred, and search a note's content in evernote. Just take a look at the workflow to see what it does and what modifier keys to use.
 
http://cl.ly/MAiE
 
What what is cool with this is how to append text to a note:
- type the keyword "evernote"
- start typing the name of a note and then <tab> to autocomplete
- type the content you want to add starting with ":"

Hi,
I've created a theme called "Mintimal". I hope you like it! 
 
Free Download
 

This actually doesn't look very much like Quicksilver, but it's close to how I had QS set up. At any rate, I like things very clean and straightforward.
 
http://neil.io/6jl9
 
BTW, it'd be nice to be able to manipulate the icon sizes and visibility.
 
Also, from a UX perspective clicking on the item you want to change makes sense when everything is big, but selecting small items like the separators, scroll bar, etc. is way too difficult. It's made even worse if your trying to match colours across the entire UI.
 
I'm also finding the preview weird compared to how the final item looks. Part of the problem is the background the preview is on is quite dark, where as the actual app often floats over lighter items like open windows. It'd be useful to either be able to change the background colour, or even better, pick a more neutral default.

Here is my theme:
 
http://d.pr/i/h9j0
 
It is very minimalistic and I used Alfreds purple color as well.
Let me know what you think 

Attached is a simple Wikipedia auto complete workflow.

-Download: http://d.pr/f/no3O
 
For those like myself who prefer scripting in Python, the following class makes generating feedback easy
-View/Download: http://d.pr/f/GMO8
 
Example Usage:
from alfred import Feedback fb = Feedback() fb.add_item("Hello World", subtitle="Simple Greeting") fb.add_item("Foo", subtitle="Bar", icon="foobar.icon", arg="foobar") print fb  
Enjoy

Edit: Changed font.