Keyboard Maestro is a tool to automate your Mac(book).
Keyboard Maestro is a way to execute user-created workflows, interacting with the application and accomplishing a set goal.
You can do similar things with shell script, javascript, and apple script, but it requires a little learning curve.
We, not software developers, need something that can be easily implemented in a way similar to a recipe.
Keyboard Maestro gives you a way to do that.
Keyboard Maestro is a ring that can control everything on your Mac (book).
You can control Finder, AppleScript, JavaScript, Python and bash with Keyboard Maestro
I love to use Bash, AppleScript and Keyboard Maestro to automate a huge number of tasks.
I edit various texts, manage data (files) including file name change, document translation using shortcut keys, web crawling, start messenger programs such as Telegram / Slack / KakaoTalk and automatically switch keyboard to native language, extract thumbnails from videos, Finder
I can duplicate/rename 1500 screenshots from, send to Imagemagick for cropping, then send and upload to my server.
It is also used in places such as automatic resizing of application windows.
Without AppleScript or Keyboard Maestro, it would hardly be productive.
Once executed it is incredibly cool and productive
Keyboard Maestro also guarantees the quality of the results of what you're trying to do, because you can automate and consequently reduce or eliminate error-prone tasks.
The time savings of automated solutions are huge.
I've measured an existing manual process that takes 3 to 6 hours and causes human error.
Compared to using an automated tool, this task has been reduced to 20 minutes.
It depends on the case, but in some cases the ratio was also 30:1.
This is the most comprehensive and direct process for Mac (book) automation on Udemy!
Over 50 lectures and over 13 hours of videos, covering practical examples of how to make good use of the keyboard maestro
This course teaches keyboard maestros in a practical way, and all courses feature full screencasts.
Use this in the way that works best for you
It covers a variety of topics, including:
- Keyboard Maestro installation
- Use of various notifications
- Trigger move and resize window
- Web browser and keyboard Maestro
- Declaring and using variables
- User input tool
- Time delay
- Screen image search
- String trigger
- Screen capture
- Move the mouse and click
- Calling shell scripts from KM macros
- Conditional statement (else if)
- Bluetooth control with hotkey
- Calling AppleScript from KM macro
- Loop While
- Handling regular strings
- Regular expressions and KM macros
- Select application menu
- System control
- Trigger type and function
- Setting the macro palette and custom icons
- Voice synthesis output utilization
- Reading and writing files
- Switch and Case utilization
- Macro Nesting and Semaphore
- Activating and hiding and exiting applications
- Text messages and KM macros
Start automating your Mac (book) with the fun and exciting keyboard Maestro right now!
