Make Plain Text Notes in Alfred 2

My favorite way to jot notes down these days is in Markdown formatted plain text files. I've got a folder of plain text files in Dropbox, and when I need to find something, I can quickly search Alfred for the file I need. It works quick, and is easy to use anywhere thanks to the fact that all of my notes are plain text files in Dropbox.

Using Alfred 2, creating these new notes is simple. I just type in the name of the note I want, and it makes a new note and opens in my default text editor — iA Writer. Thanks to a request from a reader on Mac.AppStorm, I've now tweaked it to add the name of the note to the top of the note as well. If, perhaps, you want the note to automatically include the contents of your clipboard — which would be a terribly simple way to turn anything into a plain text note — you can tweak the bash script in the Alfred workflow to include $(pbpaste) in the "echo" part of the script.

Here's my new plain text note Alfred 2 workflow on Github if you'd like to use it yourself. Hopefully it'll speed up your note taking workflow as much as it has for me!

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