quartz/content/Optimization/Tools/Keyboard Maestro.md

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Keyboard Maestro

Optimization/Tools/Keyboard Maestro is an application I use to automate many tasks within the OSX operating system. I use it together with Optimization/Tools/Alfred and Optimization/Hardware/StreamDeck.

I regularly find myself using Knowledge/Programming/JavaScript/JavaScript and Knowledge/Programming/Node.js scripts to create individual actions.

Macros

System Features.

• DND on/off
• Putting to sleep
• Restarting
• Security

**Files

Communicators.

E-mail

Calendar

Keyboard Maestro

Writing.

• text expander
• markdown
• quick answers
• emoji picker

Browser.

Music.

Development

External Automations.

Individual shares

• Faster system navigation (e.g., switching applications or launching functions)
• Useful notifications (such as Pomodoro and reminders for daily habits)
• Autosave in programs that do not have this feature
• Assigning keyboard shortcuts to program options that do not allow this (thanks to the Menu Bar Search extension, among others)
• Manage window positioning in a custom way (in conjunction with Optimization/Tools/Magnet)
• Application management (e.g., disabling Messenger after 5 minutes)

Working with text

• Faster text navigation (keyboard shortcuts)
• Text Expander with support for external scripting (e.g., date generation).
• Working with Markdown syntax
• Quick open notes (Optimization/Tools/Notion / Optimization/Tools/Obsidian)
• Macro palette with quick responses
• Adding emoticons from Emoji Taco and Rocket
• Quickly add information to notes (even without opening the editor)

Working with files

• Create documents based on a template (through the Find function
• Automatic transfer / renaming
• Name changes and extensions
• Size changes
• Image optimization
• Quickly open files with Optimization/Tools/Alfred
• Automatic file transfer, including uploading to Google Drive with Optimization/Tools/Hazel

Changing the context

Browser

Meetings

Communication

Focus

Entertainment

External automations

• Running webhooks taken over by Optimization/Tools/MakeHQ, Optimization/Tools/Zapier or Optimization/Automation/Microservices
• Sending data via Optimization/Tools/MakeHQ to Optimization/Tools/Airtable.
• Sending notifications to your phone

Mój kurs online: Keyboard Maestro

I discuss all the techniques for working with Optimization/Tools/Keyboard Maestro and Alfred in my course: Projects/eduweb#Keyboard Maestro Course available at Projects/eduweb.