Question

I have about 5-6 applications that I have open on my Mac which I constantly switch between all day long. I currently use Command-Tab to do most of my switching but Ideally I’d like to set my own shortcuts like Control-Command-[0-9] to toggle between my most used apps as it would be much faster for me. I looked at the keyboard shortcuts menu in the System Preferences but I couldn’t find a way to make it simply focus on a particular window. Any input on how I could acheive this?

Thanks!
Dan

Answer 1

You can use AppleScript and define some custom keyboard shortcuts to call the correct script.

For example:

tell application 'Finder' to activate

Set that to Control+Command+0

tell application 'Safari' to activate

Set that to Control+Command+1

… and so on

I know that System Preferences can define custom keyboard shortcuts, but I’m if they can run scripts. Something like Quicksilver or other ‘productivity’ addon software definitely can.