shortcutlery

shortcutlery enables you to quickly open your favourite webpages from Spotlight.

Getting Started

1. Go to <shortcutlery.simonknott.de>, enter your shortcut's name
2. Select the desired action - do you want to open a web page or run a shell command?
3. Enter the web page / shell command
4. Click "Create Shortcut"
5. Unzip the downloaded file, move to /Applications, right-click > "Open" to make sure it works.
6. Move to /Applications
7. Open from Spotlight!

Want to add crazy complicated shortcuts? Check out Alfred.

Why do I need to trust the Downloaded application first?

In order for an application to be considered trustworthy by macOS, a signature of an registered Apple Developer Program member is required. Imagine somebody created a malicious shortcut - think "deleting all files" - using shortcutlery , I'd be the one to have signed off that application. You see why that's not a good idea, I guess?

That's why shortcutlery's shortcuts don't appear as trustworthy - because I don't want to put my name on potentially malicious code.

About

I like to keep my setup vanilla, so using Alfred wasn't really an option for me. But I still wanted to have web pages and macros available in Spotlight! That's easy to accomplish using Apple's own Automator, but it's cumbersome to use and little known amongst non-tech people.

That's why I created shortcutlery. It basically takes a generic Automator template and adjusts it to your likings. All of that happens client-side, so it's privacy-friendly and easy to host.