5/6/2023 0 Comments Keyboard maestro examples![]() I hope you found the sample string triggers useful. There’s no limit to the string characters that can created and used in Keyboard Maestro, though again, I find the best combinations to be easy to type and remember. Applying title case to a ling of text: tcc.Activating/de-activating Dragon Dictate: ddg.Displaying the current playing song: currentsong.Pasting only the title of the frontmost Safari page or tab: stitle. ![]() Pasting the title and URL link of the frontmost Safari page or tab: safarilink.Posting a tweet in Twitter or TweetDeck: pst.Triggering the next song in iTunes: nxt.Putting the cursor at the end of a line of text: nnd.Triggering my jazz playlist in iTunes: jz.For hiding the current application: hdd.I use about few dozen more strings that each only work in specified applications. The string combinations can be used anyway you like. I provide the examples to show what is possible in using Keyboard Maestro. The following are examples of strings I use for various purposes. Of course, I just turned that key combination into a string trigger so I can execute while typing. Note: if you want to temporarily override a string trigger, you can type the first letter of the string, then press Shift+Space, hit the Delete key, and then type rest of the string. The default setup for using string triggers is “the case must match.” But note the other available options, including “case affects actions.” This means, you could use the same string combination, but in one case, for example, you use a capital and lowercase combination, such as “Jz” and in another you use, “jz” for a different macro. I find Keyboard Maestro works better than TextExpander for inserting characters like this one. The string I use is “uu”, for “underscore.” I use the same string in other applications to insert a question mark at the end of sentences. Thus, the text insertion action and macro I use only works with when the Finder/desktop is the frontmost application, and also in Photoshop, for when need to rename files. I mainly use underscore when naming files on my desktop. One of the KM macros I use on a regular basis is an action that inserts the underscore character in text. I make sure a string doesn’t conflict with a TextExpander snippet abbreviation.I use some strings only in particular applications, instead of adding them to global triggers. ![]()
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