miyashi.app

7/19

2022

Launch apps by keyboard shortcuts

#Monterey#SwiftUI#Mac App#Automator#Copy History Mark Ⅱ

Launching by keyboard shortcuts

■ Overview

This article is for CopyHistory user, so I assume you have installed CopyHistory but this way is common to all app.

Setting the keyboard shortcut to Quick Action allow you to activate apps easily.

Quick Action is a workflow made by Automator.

■ Procedure

  1. Download CopyHistoryShortcutLaunchAction.workflow.zip
  • This is a workflow that just launches this app.

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  1. Expand the zip and click CopyHistoryShortcutLaunchAction.workflow
  • You can see the content of the workflow with Automator app.
  1. The alert will appear and click install

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  1. You can see the workflow added to 〜/Library/Services.

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  1. Set a keyboard shortcut for triggering the workflow
    at System Prefrence > Kayboard > Shortcuts > Services > General
  • You can set the keyboard shortcut freely but you should take care to conflict other shortcuts.

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