Search Open Finder Windows — Alfred Workflow

Lightning-fast Finder window management at your fingertips. Search, navigate, and manage all your open Finder windows without ever touching your mouse.

✨ Features

• 🚀 Finds windows instantly — Even with dozens open
• 🔍 Searches everything — Window names, paths, even the files inside
• 🎨 Shows the right icons — Including your custom ones
• 🔄 Updates in real-time — Close a window, and the list updates immediately
• 🧠 Remembers your setup — Smart caching for fast load times

🎮 Usage

Actions

• Enter — Focus the selected window
• ⌘ Enter — Copy a file or folder's path to clipboard
• ⌥ Enter — Close the selected window from within Alfred

Search Like a Pro

Find windows by typing:

• Window names — "Downloads", "Documents", etc.
• Full and partial paths — "~/Desktop/that one video.mp4"
• Files and folders inside — That PDF you're looking for? Just type its name.
• Path components — "screenshot desktop 2025 .png" finds ~/Desktop/Screenshot 2025-05-26 at 6.43.54 PM.png

🪟 Supported Window Types

📁 Finder Browser Windows

Your everyday folder windows — the workflow handles them all with icons that match your system appearance and custom settings.

ℹ️ "Get Info" Windows

Quickly find and focus any "Get Info" window. Press ⌘ to copy the path of the file or folder being inspected.

⚙️ Settings Window

Jump straight to Finder Settings when you need to tweak something.

📐 "View Options" Windows

Those "Show View Options" panels? They're searchable, too!

🌎 Real-World Examples

Jump between folders

Grab paths without breaking your flow

Clean up your workspace instantly

🏆 Why I think you'll love it

• Zero setup — Just install and go

• Blazing fast — Optimized to handle any number of windows

• Smart caching — Learns your setup for instant results

• Specific icons for easy identification — Respects custom icons, dark mode, hidden files, and macOS' stock icons for every window type

• Keyboard-first — Everything is just a few keystrokes away

🔗 Where to get it

You can download the latest release of this window from the Releases page, or from the Alfred Gallery.

This workflow uses the Homebrew version of jq. I recommend installing it directly from the Alfred Gallery, which will automatically manage Homebrew dependencies.

🙏 Acknowledgements

This workflow was inspired by the Browser Tabs workflow by Emmanuel Pilande.

Special thanks to mklement, whose fileicon script taught me about macOS' icon resource forks.

Thank you also to Vitor Galvão from Alfred for for helping me to refine this workflow.