How to quickly open folder in Visual Studio Code and other applications in macOS?

In this note, you will read how to use Automator in macOS to speed up some of your activities. It makes it easier for me to get around macOS every day.

Open in Visual Studio Code

1. Open Automator.
2. Go to File > New.
3. Choose Quick Action.
4. Change Workflow Receives current to files or folders in Finder.app.
5. Add a Run Shell Script action by drag and drop.
6. Change Pass input to as arguments.
7. Copy and paste the following in the shell script box:

   for f in "$@"
   do
       open -n -b "com.microsoft.VSCode" --args "$f"
   done
8. Go to File > Save and save it as e.g. Open in Visual Studio Code.
9. Go to Finder.
10. Click RMB (right mouse button) on folder or file.
11. Choose from menu Quick Actions > Open in Visual Studio Code.

Open in Visual Studio Code, based on jnovack post @ stackoverflow.com CC BY-SA 4.0

Open in pyCharm

1. Open Automator.
2. Go to File > New.
3. Choose Quick Action.
4. Change Workflow Receives current to files or folders in Finder.app.
5. Add a Run Shell Script action by drag and drop.
6. Change Pass input to as arguments.
7. Copy and paste the following code to action Run Shell Script:

   for f in "$@"
   do
       open -n -b "com.jetbrains.pycharm.ce" --args "$f"
   done
8. Go to File > Save and save it as e.g. Open in PyCharm.
9. Go to Finder.
10. Click RMB (right mouse button) on folder or file.
11. Choose from menu Quick Actions > Open in PyCharm.