January 12, 2013 
As promised in the blog post earlier tonight announcing the first Alfred v2 beta, here are a few workflows Mega Supporters can import to get started.
Google Searches
Search Google with a keyword or a hotkey, and launch in various browsers. This is a great starting point for creating your own alternative searches.
Open Folders in TextMate
Use the “folders” keyword to perform a filtered search on folders only, then open then automatically with TextMate. Change what file types you search or choose a different “open with” application for a really useful quick filter to your files.
Paste as Plain Text
Use a hotkey to paste the current contents of your clipboard as plain text.
Should I watch this movie?
Type “movie” and the name of the movie you want to watch to search for trailers on YouTube (using Chrome – handy if you don’t otherwise have Flash installed on your Mac), open IMDB for more details and open Rotten Tomatoes to find out how bad that movie really is.
jdfwarrior’s Alfred v2 workflows
If you still want more, check out David’s Tumblr for a few more useful workflows. He has created a Chrome Bookmarks search which presents results in Alfred, a Google Auto-complete workflow, a fantastic-looking Rdio search and a Mail.app search. He’s been working hard!
Looking forward to seeing what users will create over the coming months! :)
Cheers,
Vero
That Google workflow is incredible … absolutely incredible.
Nice! Found these today too
http://jdfwarrior.tumblr.com/post/40354870777/a-few-alfred-2-workflows-to-get-you-started
I may be missing it, but I don’t see an obvious way to import these into Alfred. Maybe you could add some short instructions to the post?
If you’re running the v2 beta, simply double-click the workflow. We’ll be adding more information in-app and plenty of documentation over the course of the beta
Ah, I see. The workflows were being treated like archives and being automatically unarchived upon download. It’s working now. Thanks.
Us Powerpack Family licensees are chomping at the bit – I’d pay the extra ten pounds to get in on the beta.
Email info@alfredapp com and I’ll give you a hand
Thank you, done
<3
I absolutely LOVE v2, and have been having fun converting previous functionality into v2. I was hoping someone could help converting this handy extension here:
http://trepmal.com/alfredapp/battery-remaining/
Thoughts? Andrew & Vero, I know it’s not your department, but I figured someone might have an idea on making this play nice.
I’m sure Kailey (Trepmal) will be happy to upgrade her extensions. Just give everyone a liiiittle bit of time
Here you go! http://cl.ly/351n0Z1D3z0Q. Based on the previous one.
Could you pop this in the forum for other users to check out too?
Thanks!
Finally digging around workflows (these are going to be fun!). Here’s the battery remaining extension updated: http://cl.ly/MHK8
My first workflows:
https://github.com/vksvicky/bitbucket-alfred-workflow.git – Search bitbucket projects
https://github.com/vksvicky/alfred-ideaplugin – search for plugins for IntelliJ IDEA IDE
Great, do you want to pop these in the forum as they’ll be more useful there for other beta testers?
Sure. Would be great!
Stupid question, but, where are the forums
I feel as stupid as a cheese without bread
It’s at http://alfredforum.com
At this point, the forum is Mega Supporters-only so I approve everyone manually (hence the slight delay before you can access the forum). Once you’re in, you’ll find tons of brilliant workflows already created by other users
I would really like to see a workflow that acts like this z binary does in the terminal: https://github.com/rupa/z
It keeps track of folders you have recently viewed, and then you can easily navigate to a recent folder just by typing part of the name. For example, if I recently viewed “~/Documents/Personal Documents/” then I should just type “z personal” and it would navigate me to that folder.
Would quite like to work on this idea with somebody, if anyone is interested and has an idea of how you’d track recent folders in Finder… (an AppleScript constantly running in the background, perhaps?)
Join the Alfredforum.com beta forum and discuss it there, as the blog comments definitely aren’t the right place to get feedback on this
Will do, thanks!
I have to be honest, I’m not quite getting the concept of workflows, all of that can be done in V1 by adding scripts (extensions)… am I confused here?
I just created a workflow for Alfred 2.0 which searches YouTube videos and returns the results to Alfred. Grab it here, if you’ld like. http://c.4su.re/M9vJ
The source code is available at GitHub, just follow the same link.
My first workflows: http://blog.phault.net/2013/01/my-first-workflows-for-the-alfred-v2-beta/
I made a nice GitHub repository search workflow with a scripting filter. I also ported my old Philips Hue control script that I made for v1.
I’ve written a workflow to create reminders in Reminders :-
http://honestpuck.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/reminders-workflow-for-alfred-v2/
I’ll put a pointer in the beta forum when my account is approved.
I really like this new workflow stuff. Very nicely done. I just have a couple of questions (hope they haven’t been asked):
1. Will there be support for a cloud service (dropbox or the like?) to sync your workflows between machines (does licensing allow me to use my license between machines?)
2. Will you create an online repository, or one within the application, to submit and get workflows?
Closer to v2, we’ll make it possible to sync your settings on both Macs via Dropbox, as with version 1
We’ll definitely be creating a site with our favourites and recommendation workflows and themes!
Hi, I created an Extension to search Amazon and show the results. Have fun! http://www.farthen.de/?p=167
Direct link to the Extension: http://misc.farthen.de/files/Amazon%20Search.alfredworkflow
For those who play World of Warcraft, wowhead.com search with autocomplete:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/72498/WoW/WoWHead%20Autocomplete.alfredworkflow
where can i find more documentation about creating workflows? I would like to create one to dial Cisco phone based a search of a contact name.
If you are a Mega Supporter, you can join the forum at http://alfredforum.com where tons of users are already creating great workflows. If what you want hasn’t been created yet, I’m sure that other users or David will be able to help you out!