Assumptions

I'm working on my private laptop. Each day I must run IDE, iTerm, docker, slack, password manager, browser, maybe spotify. It's not a hard or long task but it takes a couple of seconds. Also is repetitive so it sounds like a good candidate to automate.

Tool

I chose alfred for this task. Unfortunately is necessary to buy Alfred Powerpack however it's great tool and I can recommend it event without this workflow.

Implementation

Alfred -> preferences -> workflows -> + -> blank workflow.

On the new workflow create an input trigger and drag some applications from applications catalog.

Then just connect the input trigger with every selected application.

Clean up

Of course closing each application should take a little bit less time, however we can automate it as well.

This workflow will look almost the same as the previous one. But instead of Launch application will be Bash script and paste e.g. pkill webstorm or pkill slack

Result

Summary

Probably you will spend more time configuring this workflow than calling it manually for next couple of years. However you can little bit reduce amount of stuff to think about.

My workflows: [https://github.com/przemyslawjanpietrzak/dotfiles/tree/master/.alfred(https://github.com/przemyslawjanpietrzak/dotfiles/tree/master/.alfred)