Keyboard Maestro 8.0

This app is seriously amazing.<p>I recently wrote about how I use it together with Typinator to completely automate writing text :<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@NikitaVoloboev&#x2F;write-once-never-write-again-c2fa1f6c4e8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@NikitaVoloboev&#x2F;write-once-never-write-ag...</a><p>There is also a video in the end where it shows all of its powers in action.<p>And I share all the interesting Keyboard Maestro macros I use in a list here :<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nikitavoloboev&#x2F;km-macros" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nikitavoloboev&#x2F;km-macros</a>

Keyboard Maestro and BetterTouchTool have been my favorite Mac utilities for many years.<p>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.<p>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&#x27;s a small win, but it&#x27;s something that I do many many times per day.<p>A second example: I use 1Password, but <i>sometimes</i> 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&#x27;re not stealing all my passwords! ;-)

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.<p>Kudos to the team on the release.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.id.com.au&#x2F;2012&#x2F;population&#x2F;population-trends&#x2F;is-perth-the-most-remote-city-in-the-world&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.id.com.au&#x2F;2012&#x2F;population&#x2F;population-trends&#x2F;is-p...</a>

Lots of people are saying how they love this app. I&#x27;d be interested in reading examples of how people are using it.<p>I wish the author provided the source code, even if they continued charging money. Based on the functionality I&#x27;m guessing it&#x27;ll require enabling accessibility, which means it can essentially hijack your computer. I&#x27;ve been slowly whittling down my usage of closed-source third-party apps in order to reduce my effective &quot;circle of trust&quot; 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&#x27;t think of many others.

This app is so good, I use it to automate project workflows in iterm2. Something like, open terminal -&gt; create tabs -&gt; switch folders -&gt; run services, etc. Also, remaping keystrokes to create macros and using hjkl as arrows.

Just downloaded it, gave it a try, and already in love with it! Will definitely buy it later today.<p>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&#x27;ll go right to that project. Now I hit a hotkey, enter a partial name for the project and enter. It&#x27;ll open Todoist or put focus on it and open the appropriate project.<p>It was super easy to create the macro.

Keyboard Maestro is one of the most underrated apps for power users. I had it for a long time and finally began to realize what amazing power you get with this tool. Others also mentioned BetterTouchTool. With that and Keyboard Maestro, if you have that little thing you wish an app would allow you to do, most of the time you can do it by using these two tools.<p>As Ferris Beuller said, if you have the means (and almost all of you do), I highly recommend it.

Interesting app is there an alternative for linux?

I really want to get into these types of apps as I think it will greatly improve my work speed. But I am always afraid of becoming over-dependent on these tools. I commonly change environments in my work, so I often have to adapt to new systems.<p>If these tools are somehow portable via usb&#x2F;internet sync, I think I would start to use them more.

I have this, and I do believe what people say about how powerful it is. However, I find the UI to be very alien and very unlike any other software I have used (especially on Mac).

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

I absolutely love this app too.<p>And for the record their support is <i>amazing</i>, very knowledgeable and responsive.

I use it quite often to type in unicode characters like ⌘, or music sharp&#x2F;flats, etc.