And there's Apple's built-in Automator feature that will soon be discontinued in favor of Shortcuts.
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If you're looking for free options, Karabiner-Elements and Hammerspoon are decent open source alternatives. (It's already replaced TextExpander and Magnet for me.) Plus, it already does what a lot of other apps can do. It's not free, but at $36, it's frankly a steal for the capabilities it gives you. And that's really just scratching the surface. You can have stuff automatically happen when you quit a certain application, when a file is moved into a particular folder, or even when you draw a certain gesture with your mouse or trackpad.
Open a website, copy files into a specific folder, or launch an application, all with keyboard shortcuts or other triggers. What is Keyboard Maestro?Īt its most basic, Keyboard Maestro is a tool for creating all sorts of shortcuts and macros for automating stuff on your Mac. But even then, why hit two keys when I could just hit one? And what other possibilities are there for one-key macros? This is where Keyboard Maestro and my keyboard's numpad make an epic duo. Granted, there are a lot of keyboard shortcuts that are dead easy- Command+C and Command+V are about as simple as it gets. But trying to hit that key combo with one hand-at least with my small hands-is like playing a game of Finger Twister. In Slack, Command+G brings up the search bar to find a past message, which I do often. Granted, you may not use these shortcuts very often, but four keys for a keyboard shortcut? Pfft.Įven some of the more practical keyboard shortcuts still require some dexterity. Or Option+Shift+Command+V to paste and match style in Safari. Take Option+Shift+Command+I, for example, which brings up a window for reporting a Google Chrome issue. Keyboard shortcuts should be easy to pull off and easy to remember, but that's not always the case. Which is why I heavily rely on an app called Keyboard Maestro. But there's one problem: just because they're shortcuts, doesn't necessarily make them better. And if you use them often, that's a lot of seconds saved. Keyboard shortcuts are great-they save you a few seconds each and every time you use them.
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