My Custom Stream Deck Toolkit

Stream Deck for productivity is underrated. I don’t use it as much as I thought (I integrated KayboardMaestro entirely too late into my workflow), but it’s still handy.

I like having haptic interfaces, (perhaps too much).

Before a good keyboard tool, I occasionally ran in to keyboard shortcut collisions which produce odd outcomes.

Thanks for sharing this, I’ll have another look.

I have a stream deck and use it the exact same way!

If you're a game streamer, the keyboard might not be an option (since you're using it to play), and that's who it's aimed at, I think. I can definitely see the appeal, just leaning over to tap while in a meeting or watching a video or something. It would be useful in a conference room as well. It's a luxury item, but it definitely fills a niche.

≥ old keyboards used to have most of these buttons

Hmmm, I only recall one previous "proper" keyboard having OLEDs under the keycaps...

Slightly facetious, I know, but I think one key element you missed is the adaptability.

Yes keyboards used to come with calculator and mail and internet buttons, but often times you were stuck with those options only, or worse, the particular apps hardwired in the drivers.

Not only can this solution adapt to what you are doing / context aware, it can give feedback. That mail button can pull and render an inbox count. Online contacts profile pics can display in a select few buttons when they are available.

Price/gamer tax on this type of solution and how useful to the average user, that's up for debate.

I like the idea that you can make a clipboard key that displays what's inside :)