Show OS X ‘tags’ with a hotkey?

[emiel]

I'm a fanatic hotkey user. I use Alfred to open apps, files and folders with hotkeys. But I can't get a hotkey connected to an OS X tag.

 

What I want? Open a Finder window with a specific tag selected in the Sidebar… triggered by a hotkey.

 

Can this be done by Alfred 2.5?

[dfay]

set up a hotkey that calls this applescript:

set the search_string to "tag:my-tag"
tell application "System Events"
delay 1
keystroke " " using {option down, command down}
delay 1
keystroke search_string
keystroke return
end tell

Edited October 7, 2014 by dfay

[dfay]

it's not the most graceful way to do it but Finder doesn't let you Applescript saved searches (my first thought for a solution).  Unfortunately since it relies on scripting keystrokes, you may need to lengthen the delays for it to work.  Even with delay 3 instead of delay 1 it's not working consistently for me.  

Edited October 7, 2014 by dfay

[emiel]

Thanks! I'll try it out. It would be great if searchng for a tag could be a standard 'action' in Alfred, like opening a file or folder.

[dfay]

There is an excellent Tag workflow here: http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/3383-mavericks-tags-file-and-email-tagging-with-alfred-2-updated-to-v14/ if you want to work with results in Alfred rather than a separate Finder window.

Edited October 8, 2014 by dfay