Keyboard Maestro launchers

During my seven-week Spotlight trial, I was reminded of how easy it is to make file and folder launchers in Keyboard Maestro. In case you’ve also forgotten, here’s a short post on how to do it. There are three items that I open quite often and that Spotlight was slow to find: My blog-stuff directory, which is where I keep all the text files, scripts, images, and other components that go into making blog posts. Each post, or set of posts, gets its own subdirectory in blog-stuff. My notebook index file, which is where I keep a list of all the entries in my paper notebooks. My calendrical directory, which is where I keep the code and support files for my current programming project: a Python module implementing the functions described in Reingold & Dershowitz’s Calendrical Calculations. This folder differs from the items above in that I won’t always need quick access to it, but I will until the project is finished. The key to making a Keyboard Maestro macro to instantly launch a file or…