#APPLESCRIPT SCRIPT KEYBOARD MAESTRO MAC#

The fill-in snippet of TextExpander gives you multiple choices in a popup menu which makes it in some cases a quite useful replacement.

At the moment Keyboard Maestro forces you to pick the entry via the mouse, there just is no other way. The point of the whole exercise for me is not to leave my keyboard and gain a swift way to choose from an array of list items. You can’t navigate such a list with your keyboard which leads to me not using native Keyboard Maestro lists at all. Right, that’s exactly the problem I have with Keyboard Maestro’s implementation of this somewhat hidden feature. Your sharp eyes might still stuck on that last remark…. It’s a good option, especially for users who use their mouse more than the keyboard. These lists can be created in Keyboard Maestro by making use of the | character aka pipe to create multiple values. To give you an example of how useful and versatile lists are, here’s an example by Gabe from Macdrifter where he makes use of them with his Quick Note macro: The new text tokens are also a nice addition. Above all, I enjoy having the ability to trigger macro palettes with a macro which makes my previous workaround obsolete. Keyboard Maestro 6 brought some new features which many users (including me) have been waiting for. Links” in the example above is linked to three hot keys: 1, NUM1 and L.Ģ. shortcut versatility, assigning multiple hot keys to one macro, c.f.swift keyboard navigation, especially when you get accustomed to shortcuts.keyboard aficionados because they tend to react a tad quicker - they’re as simple as it gets.Nowadays I try to limit myself to a maximum amount of ten macros in a palette.) displaying a few selected and important macros (I’ve tried large palettes and came to the conclusion that they don’t work for me - no matter how many dividers I setup to structure and organize them.a simpler approach to keyboard navigation (by using the arrow keys or typing the starting letters of the list entry).saving some valuable space in that good old brain of yours (since there is no need to learn or memorize shortcuts).

low priority lists that you don’t visit regularly or that are not crucial to your workflow.

Before we dive in deeper, here’s a comparison of the key features of both, lists and palettes, with the latter being my favorite for replacing ‘dialog lists’ most times. Although they won’t look and act exactly like the one from the screen shot I took (it’s MarsEdit by the way) they are useful in certain contexts. In Keyboard Maestro you can create simpler versions of these traditional GUI element, too.

The following picture illustrates what I refer to when I speak of ‘lists’ in this context: To wrap it up, the last section shows you my present setup of how I create new notes and append notes to lists, as well as how I use a piece of AppleScript to generate a list of recently modified files which prompts me to choose one document along with several other options.īut first things first. In this post I’ll cover the status quo of support for lists in Keyboard Maestro and two workarounds for different scenarios where lists can come in handy. Today I want to address one feature that already exists, but which isn’t usable for me: lists in a dialog prompt.

#APPLESCRIPT SCRIPT KEYBOARD MAESTRO MAC#

The plethora of features and the custom hacks that can be created with Keyboard Maestro are the reason it has earned a place in the top 5 of my favorite Mac apps. Edit and Preview Recently Modified Notes.Prelude - My Setup for Managing Notes and Lists.The Combined Power of Palettes and Lists.Using Keyboard Maestro and AppleScript for Lists.Status Quo of Lists in Keyboard Maestro.

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