

Open a Finder window and select an item (or several) for tagging. Now your shortcut is set up, it's time to try it out.

In our example, we've used Shift-Command-T. Click inside the Keyboard Shortcut field and press your preferred key combination for activating the service.Select Finder.app in the Application field.Select App Shortcuts in the left column and click the + button.Launch System Preferences from the Apple menu bar ( -> System Preferences.).How to Create a Shortcut for Tagging Items in Finder If that sounds scary, don't worry – it's a simple process, and if you're a frequent user of tags then you'll find this quick recipe well worth the effort. This more powerful color tagging method requires creating a simple Automator service.

Once you've done that, we explain how you can use one or more custom shortcuts to directly apply specific color tags to selected items in a Finder window. The first series of steps below shows you how to create a handy key shortcut to activate Finder's inline tagging menu. In this article, we're going to show you how to tag items in Finder using a simple custom keyboard shortcut, for even faster tagging. In one of our previous macOS how-to guides, we explained how using tags can help you organize your files and folders and quickly locate them when they're needed.
