Ideas for Alfred.app, a new launcher for OS X:

1. Clipboard manager. This might seem like bloat, but I use LaunchBar's clipboard manager ALL THE TIME — this was true with Quicksilver as well. Would it be possible to add a very simple pasteboard tool to Alfred?
2. Shelf. One of the things that I've never seen another app to right is the Shelf that Quicksilver had. It was so universally useful — and it's really a bummer that it doesn't exist anymore!
3. Actions. I'm sure this one is obvious, but the lack of "tab to"/secondary contextual actions seems like a major omission...
4. Calculator. Yeah, this one's simple too, but I'm constantly launching Spotlight or LaunchBar to perform simple arithmetic. If I enter "12+6", I'd like Alfred to report back "18". Added in 0.5.
5. Support for HTML/CSS skinning? This would be so cool — and many apps like Bowtie and Growl already use HTML/CSS for skinning. This would make Alfred insanely awesome.
6. A built-in link to the system "Character Palette"... or something like "Show Character Map"... another gem that I use frequently to pull in extended characters into my documents.
7. the ability to connect my social connections to Alfred so that autocomplete can work against my Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, and other contacts... ;)
8. the ability to long-hold a character to submit a command... that is, if I type "mai" and then hold the "i" key, it should automatically launch the first result (presuming that I want to launch "Mail" or "Mailplane".
9. I'd like to be able to drag items from Alfred.
10. When I launch something from Alfred and then launch it again, it should remember the last thing that was selected... basically this fits into the ability to drag from Alfred, since I might want to drag something out many times...
11. Support for Quicklooking selections; especially contacts. 
12. Typing "~" should show me the folders in my home directory (and someday, let me explore them inline!). 
13. starting a query with "@" should begin autocompleting against my contacts (from Twitter, Facebook, etc)
14. starting a query with "#"  should autocomplete against a set of tags — from Twitter, locally, wherever — and then let me perform a search

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