I have pinned tabs for Calendar and Gmail, and I wanted to quickly jump to them from anywhere using Alfred.

Another option could have been to use Alfred’s Web Search feature to open a new tab. That would be a simple version of what I wanted, but I was curious to see if it was possible to go to an existing tab.

Additionally, Alfred offers another option with an Automation Task accessible in the Workflow menu (Automation > Automation Task > Extra Automation Task > Web Browser> Chromium > Switch to Chromium Browser Tab Matching URL). I discovered that solution after implementing mine, but I decided to keep what I had because the Automation Task doesn’t properly handle having multiple Chrome windows opened, and I usually have several of them.

In the end, my solution is an Alfred Workflow I made that runs an AppleScript^[1] when a keyword is entered in the Alfred command palette.

The Keyword trigger configuration is simple: Take the keyword "calendar" with no argument. then make it look nice by adding a title, a subtext and Google Calendar icon.

Add an AppleScript action with the following script:

on alfred_script(q)
 tell application "Google Chrome"
	activate
	
	-- Loop through all windows
	repeat with windowIndex from 1 to count of windows
		set theWindow to window windowIndex
		
		-- Loop through all tabs in the current window
		repeat with tabIndex from 1 to count of tabs of theWindow
			set currentTab to tab tabIndex of theWindow
			set tabURL to URL of currentTab
			
			-- Check if the tab contains Google Calendar
			if tabURL contains "calendar.google.com" then
				-- Make this window active and switch to the calendar tab
				set index of theWindow to 1
				set active tab index of theWindow to tabIndex
				return -- Exit the script once found
			end if
		end repeat
	end repeat
  end tell
end alfred_script

For an extra boost of productivity^[2], make it so the calendar opens on the weekly view for today. For this, you can modify the script to ask Chrome to change the tab URL:

  set active tab index of theWindow to tabIndex
+ set URL of currentTab to "https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/r/week"
  return -- Exit the script once found

I also created a similar script for Gmail by using another Keyword trigger and using Gmail's url.

Now I can access my calendar and emails from anywhere!

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