Automate My MacBook: Goodbye to Repetitive Tasks
Keyboard Maestro is a tool for automating your Mac (or Book).
Keyboard Maestro is a way to execute user-created workflows that interact with your application to accomplish a set goal. You can do similar things with shell scripts, JavaScript, and AppleScript, but it requires a bit of a learning curve.
As non-software developers, we need something that can be easily implemented in a recipe-like manner.
Keyboard Maestro shows you how to do just that.
Keyboard Maestro is the one link that can rule everything on your Mac (Book).
You can control the Finder, AppleScript, JavaScript, Python, and Shell using Keyboard Maestro.
I enjoy using shell, applescript and keyboardmaestro to automate a ton of tasks.
I can do various text editing, file management including renaming, document translation using shortcuts, web crawling, automatically switch the keyboard to Korean upon launching messenger programs such as Telegram/Slack/KakaoTalk, extract thumbnails from videos, duplicate/rename 1500 screenshots from Finder, send them to Imagemagick to crop them, and then send them to my server.
It is also used in places like automatic window resizing of apps.
Without AppleScript or KeyboardMaestro, I would be hardly productive. Once I get going, it's incredibly cool and productive.
Keyboard Maestro also ensures the quality of the results of what you do, as it automates tasks that can lead to errors, thus reducing or eliminating errors as a result.
The time savings of automated solutions are enormous. I have measured existing manual processes that took 3-6 hours and were prone to human error. Compared to not using an automated tool, this task was reduced to 20 minutes. Depending on the case, the ratio was as high as 30:1 in some cases.
This is the most comprehensive and direct course on Mac automation on Inflearn! . Over 7 hours of 50+ lectures and videos with practical examples to get the most out of your Keyboard Maestro.
This course, with hands-on examples, teaches you how to be a keyboard maestro in a practical way.
Use this in whatever way works best for you.