Macbook Pro Touchbar Shortcuts for Developers

What you can do

1. For Macbook Pros with touch bars, you can open folder with programs with one click.

• On touchbar, shortcut Buttons will look like following

• Runthrough Example: Open folder with VSCode

2. Right Click to open folder with certain programs: Iterm2, Typora, VSC etc...

How

1. Spotlight(CMD + Space) to find Automator.

2. Choose Quick Action

3. You'll get this screen after selecting quick action

4. On the left side of panel, search for "Run Shell Script"

5. Then, on the right side of panel will look like this. Now We are ready to customize this quickaction one-by-one.

6. Workflow receives current "files or folders"

7. Workflow receives current "files or folders" in "Finder"

(optional) Choose Icon which intuitively displays the action for you.

8. Select shell as "/bin/bash" and write the script(AppleScript) as following:

To Open VSCode with quickaction:

for f in "$@"; do
    open -a 'Visual Studio Code' "$f"
done

To Open iTerm with quickaction:

for f in "$@"; do
    open -a iTerm "$f"
done

To Open Typora with quickaction:

for f in "$@"; do
    open -a typora "$f"
done

9. Pass input "as arguments"

10. After the process 1 ~ 9, it should look like the following:

11. CMD+S to save the quickaction and name the quick action.

12. Quickactions can be archived on Services folders. You can rename/delete/edit your quickactions here.

Version

• Mac OS Cattalina ver. 10.15.3
• Macbook Pro 16 inch model

Reference

• How to add a right click option in folder to open the folder with an application like VS Code
• Automator Specifications