Keyboard Maestro - Keyboard Maestro is what Automator should have been
Keyboard Maestro is your hot key solution that allows you to perform a multitude of tasks simply by pressing a keystroke! Keyboard Maestro also incorporates the wildly popular MacOS Classic utility Program Switcher, which allows you to launch, switch, and quit applications with a simple keystroke.
Features:
Version 5.0.1:
Features:
- Macro
- Program and Window Switcher
- Clipboard Switcher
- Clipboard History Switcher
Version 5.0.1:
- Added a macro library entry showing how to store passwords in the Keychain.
- Added Set Variable to Clipboard and Clipboard to Variable pseudo actions.
- Allow negative window indexes in Manipulate Window to count from the back.
- Addde Help -> Open Preferences Folder since Lion hides the Library folder.
- Moved the Keyboard Maestro preference folder to the Application Support folder.
- Ensure the log files are created.
- Added Command-Shift-Tab trigger to default Activate Application Switcher.
- Added display of nested actions for Repeat command in non-Edit mode.
- Changed the origin of Screen tokens to top left like other origins in Keyboard Maestro.
- Ignore bogus windows in Manipulate Window when considering indexes.
- Resolve alias files in Open File or Folder action.
- Just include one Quick Macro macro by default.
- Added documentation links for ICU Date Time format.
- Added token processing for most of the condition fields.
- "Save Clipboard History" appears on in the preferences whether it is on or off.
- Handle the case where the preferences folder is readonly.
- Execute Script, Save to Variable, changes to the variable name were not sticking.
- Fixed Text Factory clipboard filtering.
- Fixed a UI glitch for Variable Condition "Is Empty".
- Fixed Swap Characters library entry.
- Fixed some potential problems with clipboard syncronization (including CPU excess usage)
- Fixed an edge case for multiple overlapping typed string triggers.
- Fixed an issue editing macros containing Open URL or Open File or Folder actions.
- Fixed the weird behaviour with multiple Record Quick Macros and duplicate UIDs.
- Fixed a potential crash displaying titles of clipboards.
- Fixed the Pixel Color test condition testing the pixel at the wrong location.
- Fixed a potential crash in the Pixel Color test condition.
People sometimes ask me whether I have any — for lack of a better term — secret weapon software to recommend. Utility apps like, say, LaunchBar or Quicksilver (on that one, I’ve been in the LaunchBar camp for a few years). The sort of apps Batman would keep in his utility belt if his utility belt were a metaphor-stretched Macintosh.
Keyboard Maestro is such an app. It’s several utilities in one: a powerful macro program, a clipboard history manager, a hot key manager, a keyboard switcher, and more. Version 4 is a great update, including a complete overhaul of my very favorite Keyboard Maestro feature, the clipboard history, and an all-new Automator-esque UI for the macro editor. Keyboard Maestro is copiously documented and comes from one of the longest-standing and most-respected indie Mac developers, Peter Lewis’s Stairways Software. I recommend it highly.
Keyboard Maestro is such an app. It’s several utilities in one: a powerful macro program, a clipboard history manager, a hot key manager, a keyboard switcher, and more. Version 4 is a great update, including a complete overhaul of my very favorite Keyboard Maestro feature, the clipboard history, and an all-new Automator-esque UI for the macro editor. Keyboard Maestro is copiously documented and comes from one of the longest-standing and most-respected indie Mac developers, Peter Lewis’s Stairways Software. I recommend it highly.
- Overview• Very powerful
• Relieves frustration (more than I ever thought possible!)
• It does stuff lightning-fast; rather astonishing.
• The macro editor interface is beautifully done - reminds me of the Automator, which is itself a design marvel; a very elegant interface. - Random Comments• There is some overlap with TextExpander. I would still get both. (I love TextExpander for the DropBox syncing etc)
• Recommend watching some video tutorials to really see what it can do - CriticismsIssue?Solution?The Icon is a little ugly. (Purely a cosmetic thing)You can get a replacement from iconoholic.comThe keyboard shortcuts for window switching conflicts with those for Witch (the application made by Many Tricks).It does take a (tiny) bit of effort to makes some changes to ‘fix’ this. .There are one or two interface quirks. (For example: the tick box to activate/deactive macros is a little confusing, at first). It might throw some usersWatch Don McAllister's SCO episode (£). A sample is provided below.
- User QuotesIncredibly versatile yet very easy to use.I could live without KM, I suppose, but it would be a much less friendly and efficient existence. This is one of the two best Mac apps that I have seen. Peter is very responsive, and he has some active MVPs that are just top drawer [ccguy]
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Key QuotesDue: A simple, beautiful, wonderful reminder app for iOS devices
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A really useful single-purpose app. Spend less time fiddling with reminders. Put this on your Homescreen.
- Far quicker and easier to use than the calendar, for the purposes of setting a reminder
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A really useful single-purpose app. Spend less time fiddling with reminders. Put this on your Homescreen.
- Far quicker and easier to use than the calendar, for the purposes of setting a reminder
- Rich Options for snoozing and reusing your reminders.
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Verdict
A really useful single-purpose app. Spend less time fiddling with reminders. Put this on your Homescreen.
- Far quicker and easier to use than the calendar, for the purposes of setting a reminder
- Rich Options for snoozing and reusing your reminders.
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