title: Delay in an Alfred 2, using Automator and Apple Script to open "Stickies" and create a new note
body: <p>Basically my goal is to code a key command (option-s) to activate Stickies and create a new note. Right now I have an Alfred 2 generated Automation which links the hot key to the following script:</p>
  
  <pre><code>on alfred_script(q)
      tell application "Stickies" to activate
      delay .2
      tell application "Stickies" to activate
      delay .01
      tell application "System Events"
          keystroke "n" using command down
      end tell
  end alfred_script
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The two activate commands are my attempt to deal with a bug where it opens the application, but doesn't bring it to front. It works seamlessly when the application is open in the background, but it's slow and creates a screen flash when the application isn't already running. The delay is not coming from the application itself because I can open the application and hit command-n as fast as possible, and it always works.</p>
  
  <p>(By the way if you have an idea for how I could hide all other notes and just show the new one, that would be awesome!)</p>