Macro to track Chrome tabs by usage

[s.newave]

Hi @JMichaelTX, thanks again for the quick response.

@JMichaelTX

That's fine. But why would you need to store the data in a file in real-time, while you are collecting the data? You can have a separate macro that writes to file at any time.

I don't necessarily need to store the data in realtime although I'd imagine that updating the file on a frequent basis could work as well.

@JMichaelTX

Maybe, but probably not. KM has Actions to read/write files.But nothing on sorting. A simple JXA script could do the sort for you, and write to file. The sort is a one line statement, and I have functions for read/write that you can use.

Sounds awesome! I've tried looking into AppleScript but for some reason my brain just doesn't grok the way that language works

@JMichaelTX

If this doesn't answer all your questions/issues, it would be best to provide your complete workflow, including the external apps you want to use. This will avoid waste of time on both our parts.

Ok, the full workflow I'm looking to achieve is:

1. Create/update a file that tracks all my currently open chrome tabs, sorted by most recently active as mentioned above
2. Create a Launchbar action that when activated will read this file and display this list in the same order
3. Selecting a tab would allow me to quickly jump to that tab from anywhere, similar to alt-tab for applications.

I've been thinking about something like this for a while and initially thought of going down the route of a chrome extension however it doesn't seem easy/possible to access data from a chrome extension outside of Chrome which led me to KM. I'm still a noob when it comes to KM and am continually impressed by the depth of this app.

Regarding the setup of the macro I'm ok having multiple macros to achieve this goal as long as the tab list file is kept up to date relatively frequently.

Any further assistance would be much appreciated, thx!