My workflow for creating setups, where your Mac automatically configures itself for a specific type of work, has changed. In this video I explain why I like ...

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I write a lot of things in a plain text format known as Markdown. It provides a set of standardised ways to mark up text for processing into other formats (such as HTML), whereby formatting and other rich content elements are applied. I write all of my blog posts in this format, and also posts for other sites where I publish and contribute. One of these sites is Buy Me a Coffee (BMAC), a site where you can donate to my coffee fund if you like the stuff I do. It is also where I post each month to let everyone know what I have been up to. It regularly surprises me just how much content and support to other Internet denizens I’ve actually provided during the course of a month! Over the course of the month I jot down notes in Drafts, and then in the following month I write these up, in Markdown ready for posting. Unfortunately, BMAC does not support Markdown, but it does support rich text.

I'm experimenting with subroutines in KM 10. h/t MacSparky David sparks

With the public release of macOS Monterey, I have been trying out a few ways of interacting with Shortcuts from a number of automation tools. Shortcuts can be triggered on macOS using AppleScript or shell script, both of which are relatively easy to do with the Swiss Army knife of Mac automation, Keyboard Maestro. However, I thought it would be fun to create a convenience plugin to make it even easier to integrate Keyboard Maestro with Shortcuts.

macOS Monterey comes with some new window management tricks but they feel incomplete and a little frustrating. I have one suggestion for the Apple team that works on Spaces and window management: Get a big ass monitor. I did. It’s a gorgeous 38" display that makes me feel like I’m working on a space ship. It was surprisingly hard to adapt to so many pixels but I’m loving almost everything about it.

Open a website, copy files into a specific folder, or launch an application, all with Keyboard Maestro’s keyboard shortcuts and other triggers.

Easy and Complex Bunches. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Streamdeck plugin to drive Keyboard Maestro. Contribute to Corcules/KMlink development by creating an account on GitHub.

Rose and David have gone all-in with Elgato's Stream Deck as an automation tool. In this episode, they go deep into all the tricks and workflows to turn your Stream Deck into an automation robot.

If you speak to anyone who more than dabbles in automation on macOS, Keyboard Maestro is almost certainly going to be a utility that gets mentioned. I’m certainly no stranger to the application and have been using it for over a decade to manage a large proportion of my Mac automations. But when you invest like that, you do tend to build up a large set of macros and having memorable ways to access them with short codes, hot keys, gestures, palettes, etc. can become a little overwhelming. I’m personally much better at remembering parts of the names and so searching an index of the available m...

Creating new contacts in Apple's Contacts app takes entirely too much mousing, clicking, and typing. This Keyboard Maestro script combines the power of Keyboard Maestro with a little bit of AppleScript to automatically create Apple Contact cards. If you dig this, there is an offer code to get $5 off

Tim Stringer from LearnOmniFocus.com joins the Automators to talk about his Mac, iOS, and web-based automation.

Update 2019-08-18: modified method to get Message ID from note so that it works with more message: URL formats possibility to specify a Task ID to get the properties of a specific task (for example Get Task Note using …

A few weeks ago, I posted about my new two-screen setup. I explained that I have started using the second monitor as a "reference" monitor to the right of my iMac screen. I’ve received emails and questions in the forums about how I manage windows between the screens. I explained in the po

Hi All - Wondering if anyone uses Post Haste anymore? I do… weekly… as it creates my folders template structure and docs for the 2 weekly podcasts that I produce. After listening to latest Automaters podcast about emai…

Automating your Apple devices

Keyboard Maestro is a really powerful tool for automating work on your Mac. Here's a simple Keyboard Maestro script I use every day. When you write for the Internet, you often include links. This little script, upon me activating the magic keyboard combination, jumps to Safari, selects the URL (⌘L)

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Hello! Here are some links to the various tools, scripts, and workflows that I mentioned during the Learn OmniFocus webinar on Jan 28, 2016. If you’ve got any other questions, feel free to pi…