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 :
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! ;-)
This is something I haven't thought of! Thanks a lot for the tip!
https://i.imgur.com/zkaxakJ.png
It just types out whatever is in my clipboard. I use it for copying and inserting credit card numbers and passwords, since some sites don't allow you to paste into those text fields.
Kudos to the team on the release.
http://blog.id.com.au/2012/population/population-trends/is-p...
That's about all I remember encountering from my time living in Perth.
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..
Perth is only 2,139km from its closest city Adelaide.
Source: http://www.westcoastassist.com.au/Perth_the_second_most_isol...
I wish the author provided the source code, even if they continued charging money. Based on the functionality I'm guessing it'll require enabling accessibility, which means it can essentially hijack your computer. I've been slowly whittling down my usage of closed-source third-party apps in order to reduce my effective "circle of trust" and reduce the chances of being subject to attacks. Why are commercial open source apps so uncommon? Textual is an example of one such app, but I can't think of many others.
Here's a modified idea, perhaps still not good enough but hopefully a step down the path. When you purchase the product, you receive access to the source code for the version that was then-current one year ago. Granted, you are not sure the current code doesn't have malware. But you can be confident, based on the history of the product, that it did not have malware for a long time. (And were you really going to scan the diffs for each release for malware anyway?) You could also allow trusted third-parties under NDA to review all diffs for the current code base and certify that they didn't see anything malicious.
This also ensures that should your company disappear, at the very worst, the user community will have a not-too-old version of the software to fall back on.
What I did with it: Automated searching a project name in an app called Todoist where I have to hit slash to go to the search field, enter a `#` sign as a prefix for project names, hit the down arrow key to select the project name that is suggested and finally hit enter key. This'll go right to that project. Now I hit a hotkey, enter a partial name for the project and enter. It'll open Todoist or put focus on it and open the appropriate project.
It was super easy to create the macro.
As Ferris Beuller said, if you have the means (and almost all of you do), I highly recommend it.
Also recently I found a cross platform automation system written in go that looks promising: robotgo (https://github.com/go-vgo/robotgo). I might try to use robotgo to replace the AutoHotKey scripts in my own little Unity3D command line tool unity_do (https://github.com/rakete/unity_do) in the future. So I don't have any experience with it yet.
If these tools are somehow portable via usb/internet sync, I think I would start to use them more.
For example, when you create a new macro, the macro editor shows a button to the right of the name that is either a check or an X. If you click the check (which would mean what, anyway?), it switches to an X. Did you just complete some action by "checking" it? Apparently, clicking the Check button _disables_ the macro. Clicking the X enables the macro. To me that seems backwards, but either way it's a very poor state indicator+driver.
Then you have inconsistent behaviors of the + buttons. In the Groups and Macros columns, their + buttons add a new element. But in the macro editor, the + button causes an action panel to slide up over the Groups and Macros sections. So + doesn't add a macro step, it just shows you the things you can select from (and drag) to build the macro.
Now, the - (minus) button on the macro panel... it doesn't remove the panel that the + just popped up; it deletes the current macro action. To remove the panel, you have to click the grayed out + button.
And when you're done adding a macro action, should you click the check button on the bottom? Apparently not; that toggles the last action on or off.
Ok, so you've got an action. Want to add another action? If the panel with all the available actions is open, can you drag one down below your last action (repeating the same behavior you followed to add the first action? Nope. You have to click that grayed out + button to remove the actions panel. Then a new button appears below the last aciton - "+ New Action". Click that, and the action selection panel slides up again. Drag another action down to the macro panel and ... oops! That doesn't work!? But that's how we got the first action there, and we just clicked "+ New Action" (and it showed us the action choices). Ahh, this time you must double click the action you want - not drag it. Now it appears in the macro actions window.
The UI is a wreck. The app is great, but the UI seems like another entry here: https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2017/6/9/15768800/reddit-worst...
All the tutorials that I read seem to be too complicated.
Anyone can point to easy to understand tutorials for creating workflows?
And for the record their support is amazing, very knowledgeable and responsive.
