I’ve been playing around with a free app called Leader Key from @mikker, and realized it could be used very effectively with Bunch. It takes a little manual setup, but it’s not hard.

Leader Key is an interesting launcher app that lets you assign single letter keystrokes to launch apps, urls, run commands, or open folders. Yes, all of this can be done fairly easily with Alfred or LaunchBar, but I really like the single-key approach. Once you develop muscle memory for an app, it’s faster than LaunchBar for me. Not a big difference, but it’s fun to play with. And you can nest key commands to make launcher groups that are 2+ keystrokes, usually assigned mnemonically, so f,d could open “Folder”, “Desktop”, for example.

Bunch has a URL handler that can, among other thing, instantly launch/toggle Bunches. And Leader Key can take a url handler URL. It’s that simple.

To open a Bunch with a url, just use x-bunch://open/NAME OF BUNCH. You can also use /toggle or /close to handle different actions.

Just add keys for your favorite Bunches and launch them with keystrokes. You can make this super simple by making them single-key launchers (at the top level of Leader Key), but I’ve hidden them behind the B key to keep things clean.

You can potentially speed up the process of adding Bunches to Leader Key by using the JSON config file and just copy/pasting the block for a key.

{
      "actions" : [
        {
          "key" : "c",
          "label" : "Code",
          "type" : "url",
          "value" : "x-bunch://open/code"
        },
        {
          "key" : "d",
          "label" : "New Dimspiration",
          "type" : "url",
          "value" : "x-bunch://open/dimspiration"
        }
      ],
      "key" : "b",
      "label" : "Bunch",
      "type" : "group"
    }

Just go into Settings in Leader Key and click “Save to file.” Then in Settings->Advanced, click “Reveal” under the file path to get to the config file.

If you’re looking to add better keyboard launching to Bunch, Leader Key is a free solution and easy to work with.

By the way, you can combine Leader Key with Karabiner Elements to do things like launch it on a double ⌘ tap.