Keyboard Maestro runs as a menubar app in the background.
#OPENSOURCE KEYBOARD MAESTRO INSTALL#
When you install Keyboard Maestro you need to enable it in the Accessibility menu in the Privacy tab of the Security & Privacy preferences pane. Keyboard Maestro comes with a 30-day fully featured free trial and once it’s over a license costs $36.
You can download one from the developer’s website. Prerequisitesįor this tutorial you need a copy of Keyboard Maestro installed. In the following series of tutorials we’ll build on this and develop much more complex workflows. In this tutorial I’m going to start very simple and take you through the process of setting up a basic macro and trigger in Keyboard Maestro while explaining the features along the way. Before we start though, we need a base to work from. You will gain a full understanding of what the app is capable of and the confidence to configure your own macros. Over the next few tutorials I’m going to dive deep into Keyboard Maestro and take any of the uncertainty out of using it. The onus is on you to work out, and develop, what you want it to do.
Keyboard Maestro comes with almost no preconfigured macros. Configuring macros is simple once you know how, the hard part is developing them in the first place. Keyboard Maestro has a reputation for being difficult to set up and not holding your hand along the way. The onus is on you to work out what you want Keyboard Maestro to do. The main selling point is that you can combine multiple different actions-such as opening a specific app, or number of apps, visiting a certain URL, triggering scripts and countless other things-into a single workflow that can be triggered by a keyboard shortcut or any number of other triggers. Like with other productivity apps such as Alfred or Launchbar, it’s difficult to give a concise definition of what the app does-it is endlessly customisable. Keyboard Maestro is a productivity and automation app that strings actions together to form macros.
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