![]() ![]() And I'm gonna hold down my Caps Lock key and then press B.Īnd you can see when I did that, it used, because of Karabiner Elements, instead of saying Caps Lock B, it says Control+Option+Shift+Command+B. And in fact, I'm going to add one more trigger because you can have multiple triggers even of the same sort. So now, I'm going to go back to this keyboard triggers one. ![]() And that gives me a whole another set of keyboard shortcuts I can use in Keyboard Maestro. Once I did that now, my Caps Lock key operates a Shift+Control+Command+Option all held down at the same time. Change Caps Lock to Command+Control+Option+Shift. And it's got a couple built in, and one of the built-in ones, which I've already enabled, is this one. And if you go over to the complex modifications tab, you can say “Add rule”. This is the downloaded Karabiner Elements application I got from the link I shared below. Well, good news is, it's got even easier than since Brett did it. Brett actually went through and showed you how to change the JSON file and make it all work. I'll put a link in the description of this specific course. And Brett did this by using an application called Karabiner Elements. So all four of those keys held down gives you a whole another set of keyboard shortcuts that nobody else uses. And that's taking the Caps Lock key and turning it into Control+Option+Command+Shift. And he came up with the idea, or at least published the idea, about using the hyper key. He co-wrote two books with me about Mac tips, the 60 Tips, Volume 1 and 2. Now, as a quick aside, you can also add a super key to your Caps Lock key, and I got this trick from my friend Brett Terpstra.īrett Terpstra is an automation nerd. The simplest method is this key combination, and I use this all the time. I'm going to select that and get the little blue outline around it and press the delete key. And I can already tell this, this voice thing is going to make me crazy. Control+Option+Command+3.Īnd it's still working. It's a good reason to get yourself an extended keyboard if you've been putting it off. And you can see, it's keypad 3, it's not the number 3. I'm going to change it to Control+Option+Command+3. And if you've got an extended keyboard, like I do with a number pad, that gives you even more options, because all those number pad keys register differently. And you've got the whole keyboard in front of you to work with that. This combination of Control+Command+Option+plus one letter is a great one because applications don't generally use that. I just held down the key combination, and there you go. I'm going to hold down the three keys, hit B…Īnd it worked. And it's turned on, so everything should work. Control+Option+Command+B triggers the “Boom” command. I press B, and I've just added that here. That's the three keys to the left of the spacebar. I'm going to create one for this, which is going to have the B key attached to it, but that's also going to say Control+Option+Command. Like I said, my favorite is the hotkey trigger. Let's do some keyboard triggers, which is the whole reason we started this. How do you like that? Okay, so we want to set that now. And let's test that.Īll right, Alex said boom. And just for giggles, we're gonna say, "Speak text," as well. A window pops up that says, “Boom!” inside of it. So, we're going to switch that over to “display text in a window”. We can say, “Boom!” And we can say, "Display large text." And I'll just show you what it looks like. So I'm going to add a couple actions here, text related. But we need something to happen on screen. And this tutorial is going to be all about creating those triggers. We created a macro here for keyboard triggers. And I'm going to talk more about the ways I do that after I demonstrate a few. I really think that keyboard triggers are the most important type of triggers using Keyboard Maestro because it's just too easy to fire these things off with your keyboard. And now we've created it right here in the groups list, and we're going to create a macro inside of that that we're going to call Keyboard Triggers. And we'll call that group a Sample Triggers. So we're going to go ahead and create a group. And the most important of those are really the keyboard-based triggers. Okay, let's start our exploration of Keyboard Maestro triggers. ![]()
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