Adding Quick Actions to Finder - macOS Big Sur

• Open Automator
• Choose Quick Action as the document type
• Change Workflow receives current to files or folders in Finder.app
• For Action, choose Open Finder items from the left hand sidebar
• Change Open with to Visual Studio Code.app (find it in Other… )
• For the Icon, change Image to “Choose…” and select the Visual Stuido Code app. It’ll automatically pick the icon
• Save it (Cmd+S) as something like “Open in VS Code”

Quick Actions are saved as workflows in ~/Library/Services

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• Use Quick Action workflows on Mac
• What are the storage locations of the various types of Automator workflows