How can I assign a keyboard shortcut to a course of to open a Highlight window and repopulate it particular filter(s) (eg. “Form” == “Folder”)

My present course of to seek for a particular listing itemizing makes use of Highlight wth filters in an everyday Finder window. I add file attribute filters to refine my search to folders solely, and generally a final modified date vary.

I am on the lookout for a course of whereby a single keyboard shortcut can set off a course of to do that, ideally with out shopping for some business automation software program for macOS.

Present steps are:

1. sort ^ + shift + spacebar which is my customised Highlight shortcut.
2. sort the textual content token I want to use into the textual content subject (eg “eBooks”)
3. click on on the little + icon/button beneath the textual content token subject (prime proper nook) which provides a highlight choice filter (see crimson define in picture beneath)
   
4. click on on the filter’s first attribute subject, watch for it the menu to pop-up after which choose "Form" from the pop-up menu.
5. click on on the second filter attribute subject now populated with file sorts and choose "Folder" from the menu.

Every time I do it lately I resent this time intensive course of a little bit extra. If I simply seek for the textual content with no “Form” filter I get too many random recordsdata from the system libraries and so on and so on.

If a keyboard shortcut could possibly be assign to that course of, by way of applescript or perl, nice, I will give it a go.

Getting ready display screen photographs for this query, I found a few “virtually there” options however not stop there but.

1. There is a button within the toolbar (or will be added to the default Finder window toolbar utilizing right-click “customise toolbar” command) which teams recordsdata into file sorts, and a kind of sorts is folders and appears to constantly record folders up prime of the group rankings. So they don’t seem to be obscured “beneath the fold”. See crimson spotlight in picture beneath.

2. I found simply now I can save a highlight search and that Save itemizing seems within the sidebar (this will probably be simple for me to lose till I muscle reminiscence it into actuality, however higher than nothing). I can have an empty textual content token subject (null) whereas having a Form attribute == “Folder” filter saved as a part of the search. (See crimson…beneath.)

If there’s a technique to assign a keyboard shortcut to the Group recordsdata button within the window toolbar button (1) or to open a Finder window sidebar merchandise within the Finder then I am dwelling and showered.

Completely happy to attempt an AppleScript or perl however would not know the place to start out. desire to not use business software program for this small job (solely).