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Re: Keyboard Maestro 8.0

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Post by mmjaa »

strayamaaate wrote: post #4

Quite surprised to see Perth, Western Australia. I was wondering if there were any developers left in my home town, the (now second) most isolated city in the world. Kudos to the team on the release. http://blog.id.com.au/2012/population/population-trends/is-p...

I too am from Perth and am also often amused to hear of any form of software development industry in our home town .. but it has to be said that Perth can produce some very interesting technology outliers at times. Just look at whats happening with 3D-printing in Perth, for example (AuroraLabs) .. some truly innovative folks still living there.

Re: Keyboard Maestro 8.0

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Post by arvinsim »

I bought this app but was never able to unlock its potential.

All the tutorials that I read seem to be too complicated.

Anyone can point to easy to understand tutorials for creating workflows?

Re: Keyboard Maestro 8.0

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Post by jannes »

arvinsim wrote: post #12

I bought this app but was never able to unlock its potential. All the tutorials that I read seem to be too complicated. Anyone can point to easy to understand tutorials for creating workflows?

I seem to remember that Macstories has a few good tutorials: https://www.macstories.net/tag/keyboard-maestro/

Re: Keyboard Maestro 8.0

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Post by ronyeh »

Keyboard Maestro and BetterTouchTool have been my favorite Mac utilities for many years.

One tiny example: I use hidutil + Keyboard Maestro to map my Caps Lock key to CMD+Tab. I found that constantly hitting CMD+Tab throughout the day caused me some wrist strain.

So instead, I now map my Caps Lock to Keypad 0 using hidutil. And then I use Keyboard Maestro to invoke CMD+Tab everytime Keypad 0 occurs. So now, CMD+Tab is just a single keystroke. It's a small win, but it's something that I do many many times per day.

A second example: I use 1Password, but sometimes some apps or sites DO NOT allow me to paste my password. Ugh. So I use a Keyboard Maestro macro to type out my copied password. Now that I think of it, I hope they're not stealing all my passwords! ;-)

Re: Keyboard Maestro 8.0

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Post by wingerlang »

Ardren wrote: post #10
dx034 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the most isolated city then? Was always curious to go to Perth. Maybe once we get the direct Perth-London flights next year. Though 18 hours on the plane isn't much fun..

Apparently Honolulu being 3,673km from its nearest city. Perth is only 2,139km from its closest city Adelaide. Source: http://www.westcoastassist.com.au/Perth_the_second_most_isol...

How and why do they pick Adelaide? There are some (small) cities around Perth.

Re: Keyboard Maestro 8.0

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Post by mhd »

nikivi wrote: post #3

This app is seriously amazing. I recently wrote about how I use it together with Typinator to completely automate writing text : https://medium.com/@NikitaVoloboev/write-once-never-write-ag... There is also a video in the end where it shows all of its powers in action. And I share all the interesting Keyboard Maestro macros I use in a list here : https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/km-macros

A shortcut for "this"? Don't you spend too much time triggering shortcuts and looking up the letter from the palettes than actually touch typing some of the words?

Re: Keyboard Maestro 8.0

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Post by dvcrn »

ronyeh wrote: post #15

Keyboard Maestro and BetterTouchTool have been my favorite Mac utilities for many years. One tiny example: I use hidutil + Keyboard Maestro to map my Caps Lock key to CMD+Tab. I found that constantly hitting CMD+Tab throughout the day caused me some wrist strain. So instead, I now map my Caps Lock to Keypad 0 using hidutil. And then I use Keyboard Maestro to invoke CMD+Tab everytime Keypad 0 occurs. So now, CMD+Tab i…

> A second example: I use 1Password, but sometimes some apps or sites DO NOT allow me to paste my password. Ugh. So I use a Keyboard Maestro macro to type out my copied password. Now that I think of it, I hope they're not stealing all my passwords! ;-)

This is something I haven't thought of! Thanks a lot for the tip!

Re: Keyboard Maestro 8.0

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Post by ithkuil »

wingerlang wrote: post #16
Ardren wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apparently Honolulu being 3,673km from its nearest city. Perth is only 2,139km from its closest city Adelaide. Source: http://www.westcoastassist.com.au/Perth_the_second_most_isol...

How and why do they pick Adelaide? There are some (small) cities around Perth.

I guess it should have been "nearest (capital) city"
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