Keyboard Maestro
macOS macro tool that fires multi-step actions from a hotkey or typed string
Triggers are the starting point: a hotkey, a typed abbreviation, an app switch, a time of day, a device you plug in. Keyboard Maestro fires a multi-step macro from any of them. You build each one from a large palette of actions. One trigger can move windows, paste boilerplate, drive a menu item, click a position on screen or chain a dozen steps together. The app reaches parts of macOS that Shortcuts cannot. Long-time Mac users keep it installed for that, and most end up with dozens of small macros rather than a few large ones.
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- David SparksDoes it
Apple productivity writer · MacSparky
He had planned to swap his full-size Apple keyboard for one without a number pad. Those keys turned out to be too useful in Keyboard Maestro, so the big keyboard stayed, and he says the extra stretch across to the trackpad no longer bothers him.
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