Keyboard Maestro is an incredibly powerful application that can do just about anything, but this makes it a little bit difficult to implement sometimes, because it doesn’t have a specific, specialized use case scenario. Note that if you use web apps, you can do the same thing with web apps by selecting the “Open a URL” action (useful for things like JIRA or Basecamp). Repeat for any other apps you want to automatically open Select the app you want to launch when you connect to your work WiFi (e.g., “HipChat”)ĩ. Select the “Open” category and double-click “Open a File, Folder, or Application”Ĩ. Type the name of your wireless network or select it from the drop down menu and select “Is Connected” for the stateħ. Click the “+ New Trigger” button and select “Wireless Network Trigger”ĥ. Name your macro (something like “Work Time”)Ĥ. Click the “+” button under the “Macros” sectionģ. Let’s walk through creating your first macro in Keyboard Maestro together:Ģ. If you don’t already have it, you can download Keyboard Maestro here. For example, if you open a certain set of applications or browser windows when you get to work in the morning, you can automate the whole process using Keyboard Maestro, so when you open your computer you’re ready to get to work. This could be something like a hotkey combination, connecting to a wireless network, or even connecting a specific USB device to your Mac. For those of you who aren’t familiar, macros are actions that can be activated by triggers.īasically, Keyboard Maestro automatically performs certain actions whenever a particular trigger is activated. These macros can be used to automate just about any repetitive task, like navigating running applications, opening documents, managing text, and controlling web applications. Keyboard Maestro is (simplest definition) an application to launch macros on your Mac. In this article, we’ll introduce you to Keyboard Maestro and show you some of the awesome things you can do with it to automate your Mac and become #AsianEfficent. While it may not seem like it’s for you until you really start using it, once you do you’ll find yourself wondering how you survived so long without it.

Keyboard Maestro is one of those tools that, like TextExpander (which we’ve written about previously), can justify switching from PC to Mac because of how easy it can make repetitive tasks. There are a number of applications that we recommend here at Asian Efficiency that make the Mac an excellent platform from a productivity perspective.

Autoclicker with keyboard maestro