Another monthly round up is out now. Find out what I got up to in May, including pieces on #KeyboardMaestro, #SuccessFactors Learning, #3DPrinted RC car ramps, and many other geeky things that crossed my path and my mind.

#FreeToFollow

https://buymeacoffee.com/sylumer/may-2025-3750293

New post up using #KeyboardMaestro to build a piece of functionality I missed from the NoteTab text editor - something that while running appends any clipboard updates to a special clipboard. A bit like a printing calculator roll.

https://www.thoughtasylum.com/2025/05/26/keyboard-maestro-clipbook/

Leader Key in Keyboard Maestro
https://bicycleforyourmind.com/leader_key_in_keyboard_maestro
#keyboardmaestro #macOS

Archiving and cleaning up involves a lot of repetitive steps, for example, purging the Logic Pro projects of unused media.

I’m really terrible about deciding if a project is too small to bother automating; however, whenever I do, I am constantly amazed at how frickin’ useful #KeyboardMaestro for the Mac is.

That is just a fantastic program that I don’t use nearly enough, and have barely scratched the surface of.

With 2025 just beginning, my December 2024 update is now out. There's a bonanza of updates this month as I do stuff with #KeyboardMaestro, #VisualStudioCode, #Alfred, #Drafts, and #Tot. I also cover the usual forum stuff, update an #Obsidian vault and launch a (not so mysterious) new site.

http://buymeacoffee.com/sylumer/december-2024-3341544

There's a new post on my blog today about saving link files and web archives for web pages using #KeyboardMaestro, with options for Finder, #Forklift, and #PathFinder.

I find these macros handy when I want to keep links or snapshots of pages where I've downloaded a file to a particular folder. As a result they tend to get most use when I'm building out reference material for sharing.

https://www.thoughtasylum.com/2024/12/27/web-links-and-archives-for-mac-file-managers/

This is how to inform and support customers! #KeyboardMaestro
https://mastodon.social/@peternlewis/113620653105265871

@Tirial I use #keyboardmaestro for so many things I’m not even sure where to start. Most common daily use is global keyboard shortcuts, e.g., Cmd-shift-option-ctrl-S to open Safari (I I use Karabiner to remap the Caps Lock key to command-shift-option-control). I also turn my extended keyboard numeric keypad into free StreamDeck. I have a dozen macros that do more complicated things, like one that un-formats and pastes text but works in all apps (special casing MS Word and a few others).

In the last week I've had two people look at me with delight when seeing how I make Safari dance like a little automation monkey with @drafts, @KeyboardMaestro and @OmniFocus , and I realised I don't market my MousHero extension enough...

⬇️ Download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/moushero-for-safari/id6447680045

🤓 What is it: https://cdf1982.com/moushero-for-safari.html

📚 Docs & examples: https://cdf1982.com/moushero-for-safari/moushero-documentation-and-examples.html

#indie #safari #extension #automation #newapp #drafts #omnifocus #keyboardmaestro #macos

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我算了一下，每款软件单买都是半折，总价值157.5＄，但是这个网站是在原价309＄的基础上捆绑打2.4折，最后实付74＄（约人民币536元），平均一个软件41元。

支付可以用信用卡、贝宝、谷歌、亚马逊和Wire Transfer。

#黑五 #黑色星期五 #mac软件 #macos #打折 #AirBuddy #AppTamer #Bartender #BatFi #BusyCal #CleanshotX #DaisyDisk #KeyboardMaestro #KeyCue #Swish #TextSniper #TextSoap #Unclutter

Should I get Keyboard Maestro as its on sale? #KeyboardMaestro #MacOS

🎉 BOOM! Success! My Caps Lock key now dynamically switches to Insert whenever I jump into Parallels Desktop, and seamlessly reverts to Caps Lock when I switch back to macOS—where it’s my VoiceOver modifier key. No more manually running AppleScripts to make this happen—it’s all automated with Keyboard Maestro macros! 🚀

Big thanks to @ChatGPT for helping make this happen. I’m also diving into some other exciting dynamic key-switching automations—stay tuned! #Accessibility #Automation #ParallelsDesktop #MacOS #KeyboardMaestro #TechWin

Breaking my retreat from social media to share a cool #KeyboardMaestro #automation.

I love @unwatched: it has completely changed my use of YouTube, and now more than ever, I don't want the algorithm to recommend anything to me.

Adding videos manually to it is quick enough, especially with the embedded #Shortcuts support, but this morning I built a @KeyboardMaestro automation that takes it to a whole new level, automatically adding each YT URL I copy on my Mac:

Better URL Copy

https://mikka.is/2024/10/better-url-copy/

About to hit the nuke button on my #shortcutsapp and rid all my #shortcuts from the app due to these sync issues. Tired of seeing my shortcuts out of sync between devices. All of my shortcuts are in folders on the Mac and iPhone but I go to my iPad and they are vomited everywhere. Going to delete all my shortcuts and hope it removes from all devices then automate restoring each shortcut back into the app from my backup and sync. Using #keyboardmaestro to perform screen clicks while I sleep.

Follwing Prot’s Emacs: commands in popup frames with ‘emacsclient’ made sense for me. Like https://irreal.org/blog/?p=12460, I struggled with doing this but Prot’s approach _just works_™. 2 adjustments tho: full executable path needed for #emacsclient on #MacOS #KeyboardMaestro & the server config needed to change:
(use-package emacs
:ensure nil
:defer 1
:config
(if (and (fboundp 'server-running-p) ... https://somanyhills.com/2024/09/23/follwing-prots-emacs.html

When there is no Raycast extension for Safari just yet to leverage the summarize tools....etc. You improvise with some nerdyness which works flawlessly ;-)

#raycast #keyboardmaestro #automation #ai

I mean, sure, it's great that I can use #KeyboardMaestro to remap `Return` to `⇧Return` and `⌘Return` to just `Return` in #WhatsApp, so that I can hit `Return` for just entering a linebreak, and `⌘Return` to send, but my main question is:

Why isn't this configurable in the first place?

@simon Depending on the dashboard, #KeyboardMaestro could do the trick.

I wrote about how a blind man began automating his Mac.

While writing this post, it helped me realize how much I've learned over the last years.

https://justtext.net/posts/how-a-blind-man-began-automating-his-mac-a-journey-of-evolution/

#macOS #automation #keyboardMaestro #blind #Blaugust #Blaugust2024 #blogging