I love Alfred and have used it for years, but I’m currently a big fan of Raycast. Raycast had a good API, and fast extensions/scripts development through an active community (on Slack). It’s also free for individuals.
There’s an Obsidian extension that can open a Vault, search notes and create notes. When creating a note, it gives you the possibility to add a title, define a path (to a folder) and add tags.
You can read more about it in this blog post.
Here is an Obsidian forum post from the author of the extension:
And yes, I’s love an Obsidian native shortcut for adding a note from any app too.