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Ever since I purchased my Elgato Stream Deck I have wanted to have a go at creating a plugin for it. It provides a convenient one button press access to some of my most used automations, and it reconfigures itself to the application I am using. It is an absolute delight, and now it is making ample use of a plugin I created.

Combinations! Lately, a lot of the best Mac automation tools have become conversant with each other. In this episode, Rose and David discuss the best ways to make automation apps work together.

It was promised some time ago, and after a long wait 1 BetterTouchTool has added Stream Deck support , and it’s awesome. It’s a beta feature, but I’ve already found it to be an amazing extension to

If you own a Stream Deck and want a better way for adding your shortcuts to it, give Shortcuts by Sentinelite a try. I’ve only been playing with the plugin for a short time, but this is hands down the best way I’ve found for adding push-button convenience to Shortcuts on the Mac. I covered

A few weeks ago I released version 1 of an Alfred workflow called Bypass. I created it to help use Apple’s Shortcuts app on the Mac. I have been continuing to expand the functionality, and have now released v1.1 with many new features. One of the areas I spent a bit of time working on was a way to make Shortcuts easier to use with the Elgato Stream Deck, and in this post I’m going to walk through how Bypass now supports setting up Shortcuts on the Stream Deck.

The Stream Deck has been a favorite of Mac users who are into automation for a while now, but the device’s utility has grown substantially for a couple of reasons. First, you can use the Stream Deck to run Shortcuts, which expands the device into an entirely new realm of automation. Second, the Stream Deck

I am an avid creator of Shortcuts on Apple’s iPhone and iPad devices, and also of Elgato’s Stream Deck hardware that provides me with additional dynamic trigger buttons to use on both my personal Mac and my work PC. I personally make use of a lot of text-based identifiers for content on my Stream Deck, but in other areas I revert to meaningful pictograms. I posted earlier this year about a number of repositories that would give you over 3,800 icons for use with your Stream Deck. But I’ve moved on a little from that. I would like to explain how I am now generating icons using Apple’s Shortcu...

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