Open Chrome bookmarks with hotkeys

chrome_dialer.md

Open Chrome Bookmarks with Keyboard Shortcuts

This guide outlines steps to create a custom dialer for Google Chrome on macOS, i.e. opening specific URLs with simple keyboard shortcuts.

The goal is to recreate Safari's affordance of ⌘1 opening your 1st bookmark, ⌘2 opening your 2nd bookmark, etc.

Prerequisites

1. Install BetterTouchTool

Create triggers

1. Enter the application-specific triggers section for Google Chrome
2. Create a trigger with keyboard shortcut e.g. ⌘1 with the action Run Apple Script (blocking), configured to the source type "Apple Script" with the following example contents

set theUrl to "https://example.com"

tell application "Google Chrome"
    set URL of active tab of front window to theUrl
end tell