Quicklaunch keyboard shortcut to start imessage high sierra

Hi, thanks, I have only used this a few times and I forgot about the "+" button to show the full list of apps. That helped me get the new message set up in iMessage. However, I'd like to launch a few apps as well with a global keyboard shortcut - Slack, chrome, etc. This is what I was having trouble with. In the method described in the first link, it appears you can only use keyboard shortcuts corresponding to app menus, but how do you do a shortcut to get the app to just open in the first place?

Thanks again

Hi again, actually correction this does not work most of the time with iMessage. I set up a new keyboard shortcut, but in most cases - like when I have chrome as the full screen, or another app, the keyboard shortcut I set up does not open a new message screen from iMessage. I also noticed that when I go to the message app itself, the menu for "new Message" (I was sure to spell exactly as it is in the drop down menu when I used the preferences for the keyboard shortcut) now has my keyboard shortcut. Without issue when iMessage is open, the new keyboard shortcut starts a new message. It just does not seem to work when I'm in other apps. I also don't get any yellow "conflicting" message when I look at the shortcut in preferences.

Many thanks for any insights you may have!