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The second thing to note is the link to the Switch/Case page on the Keyboard Maestro documentation wiki There are even a pair of copy commands for easy sharing of the action the screenshot of the Switch/Case action above was made by Copy As Image. First, a new gear menu in every action provides access to a variety of contextual operations you might want to perform on the action, such as trying it, disabling it, renaming it, and adding a color or a note (documentation within macros, yay!). Note two things about the previous paragraph. More smarts because it can determine if the clipboard, a variable, or some text contains a particular string or an image, and then execute sub-actions if so. Notably, a new Switch/Case action lets you give a macro The most interesting include Type Modifier Key, Open 1Password Bookmark, Simulate Hardware Key, Set Keyboard Layout, Execute Swift Script, and Execute JavaScript for Automation. On the action side of the equation, Keyboard Maestro already had a vast number of actions to control nearly anything on your Mac, but 7.0 still manages to add a number of new and enhanced actions.

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Of course, you can still use triggers that execute at login, when a volume is mounted or unmounted, at a specific time, when the Mac wakes, when you join a particular wireless network, and so on. In addition, standard Hot Key (and Device Key) triggers now support double-tap, triple-tap, and so on. New triggers in version 7.0 include a change in the focused window, a folder’s contents changing, the clipboard changing, and the Mac going to sleep. Most people think of triggers as keyboard shortcuts, but Keyboard Maestro boasts a large and growing set of triggers that can initiate macros. Changes fall into a few major categories: new triggers, new actions, Keyboard Maestro Editor changes, and themed palettes.Įvery macro has two basic parts - a trigger and an action.

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Now that we’re all on the same page, let’s look at what’s cool about Keyboard Maestro 7, the major new release that Peter just put out after two years of free updates. Although the specific macros I rely on today are a bit different, everything else I wrote there remains completely true, and if you’ve never quite understood the utility of macros or Keyboard Maestro in particular for automating repetitive tasks on your Mac, go read that article.

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#1623: How to turn off YouTube's PiP, use AirPlay to Mac, and securely erase Mac drivesĪ little over two years ago, Peter Lewis of Stairways Software released Keyboard Maestro 6, and I sang the praises of macro software in general before describing that version’s new features (see “ Keyboard Maestro 6 Automates Web Pages, Adds Macro Syncing,” ).#1624: Important OS security updates, rescuing QuickTake 150 photos, AirTag alerts while traveling.#1625: Apple's 'Far Out' event, the future of FileMaker, free NMUG membership, Quick Note and tags in Notes, Plex suffers data breach.#1626: AirTag replacement battery gotcha, Kindle Kids software flaws, iOS 12.5.6 security fix.

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#1627: iPhone 14 lineup, Apple Watch SE/Series 8/Ultra, new AirPods Pro, iOS 16 and watchOS 9 released, Steve Jobs Archive.

I encourage all to participate in this discussion, and share your experiences, preferences, questions. You might be particularly interested in KM Forum topics tagged with: Please drop by to browse and/or contribute any time you’d like. We actually have a lot of scripting discussions in the KM Forum. If you’re interested, take a look at these KM Wiki articles: But, when I need AppleScript (or any one of several other scripting languages), KM provides an “Execute Script” action that works very well, with very little overhead. In general, I find it much easier to automate many of my Mac workflows using KM than I do AppleScript. Just moved this from my topic on How Do I Get/Set Mouse Position?įor everyone’s benefit, Keyboard Maestro has a ton of very easy to use UI Actions/Token/Functions that cover screens, windows, menus, mouse, buttons, and more. I have found using both to make my automation tasks much easier and faster. You might be interested to know that a number of very skilled scripting developers, like Chris Stone ( are also heavy users of KM.

See my post: Keyboard Maestro vs Scripting We had a good discussion of this in the Keyboard Maestro Forum, so I thought I’d share this with you guys. Scripting vs Other Automation Tools (like Keyboard Maestro)

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