Leader Key in Keyboard Maestro
https://bicycleforyourmind.com/leader_key_in_keyboard_maestro
#keyboardmaestro #macOS

With 2025 just beginning, my December 2024 update is now out. There's a bonanza of updates this month as I do stuff with #KeyboardMaestro, #VisualStudioCode, #Alfred, #Drafts, and #Tot. I also cover the usual forum stuff, update an #Obsidian vault and launch a (not so mysterious) new site.

http://buymeacoffee.com/sylumer/december-2024-3341544

There's a new post on my blog today about saving link files and web archives for web pages using #KeyboardMaestro, with options for Finder, #Forklift, and #PathFinder.

I find these macros handy when I want to keep links or snapshots of pages where I've downloaded a file to a particular folder. As a result they tend to get most use when I'm building out reference material for sharing.

https://www.thoughtasylum.com/2024/12/27/web-links-and-archives-for-mac-file-managers/

This is how to inform and support customers! #KeyboardMaestro
https://mastodon.social/@peternlewis/113620653105265871

In the last week I've had two people look at me with delight when seeing how I make Safari dance like a little automation monkey with @drafts, @KeyboardMaestro and @OmniFocus , and I realised I don't market my MousHero extension enough...

Download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/moushero-for-safari/id6447680045

What is it: https://cdf1982.com/moushero-for-safari.html

Docs & examples: https://cdf1982.com/moushero-for-safari/moushero-documentation-and-examples.html

这个网站推出了一个黑五软件特价捆绑包，价格相当实惠，购买看 https://unclutterapp.com/bundle/?coupon=SW-BLACKFRIDAY-2024

我算了一下，每款软件单买都是半折，总价值157.5＄，但是这个网站是在原价309＄的基础上捆绑打2.4折，最后实付74＄（约人民币536元），平均一个软件41元。

支付可以用信用卡、贝宝、谷歌、亚马逊和Wire Transfer。

Should I get Keyboard Maestro as its on sale? #KeyboardMaestro #MacOS

BOOM! Success! My Caps Lock key now dynamically switches to Insert whenever I jump into Parallels Desktop, and seamlessly reverts to Caps Lock when I switch back to macOS—where it’s my VoiceOver modifier key. No more manually running AppleScripts to make this happen—it’s all automated with Keyboard Maestro macros!

Big thanks to @ChatGPT for helping make this happen. I’m also diving into some other exciting dynamic key-switching automations—stay tuned! #Accessibility #Automation #ParallelsDesktop #MacOS #KeyboardMaestro #TechWin

Breaking my retreat from social media to share a cool #KeyboardMaestro #automation.

I love @unwatched: it has completely changed my use of YouTube, and now more than ever, I don't want the algorithm to recommend anything to me.

Adding videos manually to it is quick enough, especially with the embedded #Shortcuts support, but this morning I built a @KeyboardMaestro automation that takes it to a whole new level, automatically adding each YT URL I copy on my Mac:

Better URL Copy

https://mikka.is/2024/10/better-url-copy/

About to hit the nuke button on my #shortcutsapp and rid all my #shortcuts from the app due to these sync issues. Tired of seeing my shortcuts out of sync between devices. All of my shortcuts are in folders on the Mac and iPhone but I go to my iPad and they are vomited everywhere. Going to delete all my shortcuts and hope it removes from all devices then automate restoring each shortcut back into the app from my backup and sync. Using #keyboardmaestro to perform screen clicks while I sleep.

When there is no Raycast extension for Safari just yet to leverage the summarize tools....etc. You improvise with some nerdyness which works flawlessly ;-)

I mean, sure, it's great that I can use #KeyboardMaestro to remap `Return` to `⇧Return` and `⌘Return` to just `Return` in #WhatsApp, so that I can hit `Return` for just entering a linebreak, and `⌘Return` to send, but my main question is:

Why isn't this configurable in the first place?

I wrote about how a blind man began automating his Mac.

While writing this post, it helped me realize how much I've learned over the last years.

https://justtext.net/posts/how-a-blind-man-began-automating-his-mac-a-journey-of-evolution/

Do you use a hyper key on #macOS, i.e. a combo of several of the modifiers, mapped to another key, like Capslock? So do I, here's a tip you *might* not know.

My hyper key "only" triggers ⌥, ⌃, and ⇧, but not ⌘. I set it up this way because I use Hyper + letter key to launch various apps¹. But by using ⌘ as a "Hyper key modifier" I can put two apps on the same letter key. For example, Hyper+E launches VSCode, but Hyper+⌘+E launches Sublime Text.

¹) Via #KeyboardMaestro.