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Workflow. Workflow is the biggest most important thing. Come with your own, and be prepared to integrate with theirs.

For instance, my coworkers and I heavily use Google products in our workflow. We are all under the same organization and share files across Google Drive. Properly named project and client folders allow us to instantly have access to the right files anywhere anytime, no time wasted on "do you have that file for that one client and can you email it to me or get it on a flash drive and walk it to me?"

Workflow you should think about:

• Photoshop actions.
• Printer and Exporting presets.
• Keyboard shortcuts. checkout this program
• File naming schemas.
• CYA emails after meetings. (To my understanding we discussed "this" and I am responsible to do "this.")
• Font management software. recommend
• Make sure your Adobe window layouts are exactly how you want them.
• If you're coding use a preprocessor and make a database of code tidbits you use all the time.
• For bloody hell name and organize your layers if someone else will ever open that file.
• Every now and then save a new version of your working file. A crash when you haven't saved really sucks, but a corrupted file of the only save you have is heartbreaking. Absolutely. Heartbreaking.

AHK and key-binding. For instance, all my ⅛,¼,⅜,½,°,±, etc are bound to CTRL and a number row, AHK will then insert the alt symbol; "CTRL+3" will insert "⅜".

Here's the part for that:

> ^1::Send {U+215B} ;⅛ > ^2::Send {ASC 0188} ;¼ > ^3::Send {U+215C} ;⅜ > ^4::Send {ASC 0189} ;½ > ^5::Send {U+215D} ;⅝ > ^6::Send {ASC 0190} ;¾ > ^7::Send {U+215E} ;⅞ > ^8::Send {ASC 0177} ;± -Similar to Inventor/CAD internal ± symbol (maybe same) > ^9::Send {ASC 0176} ;° > ^0::Send {ASC 0216} ;Ø -Same as Inventor/CAD diameter symbol > ^.::Send {ASC 0149} ;• -Does not work in all applications, copy-paste does

For alt-code entry, you can set the number row as the "numpad" with this handy script by u/Depariel.

You can use the "Send {}" command for just about any alt-code/keypress you want and bind it to a key-stroke, this way you don't have to keep looking up symbols and copy/pasting them.

AHK is pretty awesome, although it's for Windows only, Mac has Keyboard Maestro and Linux needs a bunch of different things to do the same.

edit: code fix

This is sad, that incremental games force peoples to auto click :| but what you are asking, is basically a "macro", which can be found on google.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=macro+on+mac
and for lazy peoples
http://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/

if Keyboard Maestro can't do it, I'm not sure it can be done!

Mostly kidding. Though I'm not sure you'd want to spend $36 on a fix for just this problem (even though KM is an incredible tool for automation). I'll post again if I can get it working with KM.

Thanks for the links, I submitted feedback.

In the meantime I made a temporary work around.. however it needs to use a third party program Keyboard Maestro. This application allows us to execute custom scripts upon launching applications!

After downloading and enabling it in System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy, open it up and select File > New Macro.

Give the Untitled Macro a name like 'Hide Sidebar Preview'. Then select New Trigger and choose 'Application Trigger'. Select 'Preview' to activate.

Under 'Will execute the following actions', select 'New Action', and search for 'Execute an Applescript'.

Paste this applescript I made into it:

tell application "System Events" to tell process "Preview" set frontmost to true tell menu bar item "View" of menu bar 1 click click menu item "Hide Sidebar" of menu 1 end tell end tell

Now click the gear icon on the applescript editor area and select 'Enable'.

Every time a PDF is opened through preview you should see the 'robot' automatically click the menu bar and hide the sidebar!

If you've done it correctly your Keyboard Maestro window should look like this.

While not being the most technical solution, you could always try something like Keyboard Maestro. Simply write a macro that starts on DAW recording, switches to the other DAW, starts that one recording, then switches back again. Would be fairly quick and simple to set up.

I feel handicapped without KeyboardMaestro, I've made it replace a lot of other little tools that did a single thing. Knowing enough about applescript to copy/paste from example code helps.
And I like MenuMeters, as soon as something goes slow, I can check if there are CPU/memory/network issues.

I'd like to add Keyboard Maestro to the bunch of things that have already been mentioned. It's allowed me to add Ctrl-* shortcuts for various applications, resize/move windows without using the mouse, shortcuts for specific folders, add application-specific shortcuts for things that app doesn't have a menu item for (like clicking a specific button) and a bunch of other things, involving applescript and if/else control flow and local variables.. replaces quite a few separate 3rd party apps & extensions all on its own.

Oh, and GeekTool, because pretty and shiny and sometimes even useful.

It might be a little over kill but check out Keyboard Maestro http://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/ It's application that can do actions based on triggers including which WIFI network you are connected to.

I'm really suprised that no one has mentioned Keyboard Maestro. Seriously worth every penny. I use it to do all sorts of crazy stuff such as:

• highlight a URL, press a key combo and have it launch it in the browser (useful for when someone emails a URL in the title of an email >:[ )
• Focus Apps
• Focus a specific tab (such as my Gmail tab) and click a specific link
• Move windows from the keyboard
• highlight a git sha (or sha range), press a key combo and it loads up the diff in my diff tool
• Select a block of SCSS and have it replaced with the parsed CSS

Seriously, if there are ANY repetitive things you hate doing with a mouse, Keyboard Maestro can automate it.

Keyboard Maestro can make a macro like this. You'd set the hot key to your combination, then choose "choose from menu."

You'd make it look like this.

Keyboard Maestro is super duper powerful.

Unfortunately, I don't think you're going to get an "out-of-the-box" app to do this. /u/MayorofTityCity and /u/jvgreene are right about automator or making an action. There's going to be some upfront work, but it'l pay off in how often you use it.

I guess you could try Keyboard Maestro too, but still, you'll need to set it up yourself.

At least in the solutions above, you'll be able to automate your most used techniques.

What program are you using to "design" anyway?

Another solution is to see whether your design application supports zooming and extra windows. In Illustrator and Photoshop, I always open two windows of the same art and have one zoomed out and tiny while the other window is zoomed in for working. Using that in conjunction with a "flip art horizontally or vertically" shortcut, I get a real good workflow for checking balance and composition.

Ah, I thought you meant between iTerm.app and Chrome. But, there Keyboard Maestro documentation says that the actions for Chrome include

• ..
• Click a link.
• Focus or select a field.
• Execute arbitrary JavaScript and return the results.

But absolute worst case, you could just script Keyboard Maestro to move the mouse to a specific (x,y) coordinate and click (yeah, hacky).

Check out Keyboard Maestro, it can bind up any key combination to your liking. I would suggest modifying your Capslock as a Supermodifier, and use any other key on the keyboard.

Or use a launcher like Quicksilver/Launchbar/Alfred to do other nifty stuff.

If you're on OSX, here's what I use:

• Hazel, which works in the background and does things according to matches in a folder, eg. if you downloaded a PDF from a specific website, you could have it automatically sorted. Or if you downloaded an MP3, you could have it sent to the Automatically Add to iTunes folder. I use it for probably too many things, but that's because I'm fucking lazy. There's something similar called Belvadere, if I'm not mistaken, on Windows.

• Also Keyboard Maestro, which does basically anything. Examples from my own library: start certain apps depending on the Internet connection, alarm clock, mute computer during classes, open applications for work in the morning, get a Markdown link from the current window. You can also set it up to do tedious processes, eg a couple days ago I wanted to archive my entire Instapaper library, set up a macro to click the Archive button, wait a moment, then do it again, until there were no more on the page, then it reloaded the page.

You can do some things with the built-in Keyboard Shortcut functionality, and much can be done with Automator, but I live and die by Keyboard Maestro. It allows me to do anything with a macro, then nest macros and do some very complicated tasks automatically.

http://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/

You need a macro editor and a device remapper. I haven't done this first hand, but in theory you could use Keyboard Maestro to set your combos, and USB Overdrive to map the key shortcuts to your mouse button. I've never really had a need for a macro editor before, so if somebody knows of a free/better alternative feel free to correct me.

From past reference, I believe Keyboard Maestro is about as close you'll get, and due to it's nature and restrictions of MacOS it's going to be severely limited and certainly not free.

You can create your own keyboard shortcuts for Win using AHK.

For Mac, you can set keyboard bindings via Settings > Keyboard or use a utility like Alfred or Keyboard Maestro.

Keystroke Maestro is a feature-rich tool for automating input and controlling a Mac. The learning curve and price point may be overkill if you only need the features in the app you linked, Repeater, but Keyboard Maestro may provide better ways to solve the problems you're trying to solve.

There was a great app for this a while back called Hyperspaces, but it is no longer supported. For the keyboard shortcuts, look at http://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/

For the rest, maybe it will make it's way into the OS, or maybe someone will figure out a way to make it happen :)

I am not a mac user but you can check http://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/ out. I have found it while searching for autohotkey alternative for macOS. You can bind your script to a key combination with this program.

There Is something Keyboard Maestro though I cannot say how similar it is. I myself am hoping to make the switch to Linux once and for all, so I'll have to learn to Bash etc. >.< i'll definitely miss AHK when/if I switch.

Forgot about that; it's quite annoying how iOS and Windows aren't compatible. However, I looked online, and apparently Keyboard Maestro does the same thing. I haven't tried it personally, so I can't say if its good, but from the brief description on the website, it should serve your purposes.

Thanks! But I think it's pc only... I'm on a mac :(

Found this tho! I'm getting somewhere!!! Keyboard Maestro and Karabiner

Keyboard Maestro

There you have the possibility to set delays but it's not free and I suspect that the thing you are trying to achieve is not easy to automate. HERE is a thread about how to determine if a web page have finished loading (in Safari) and it seems to be somewhat complicated.

By default, W spits one nugget of mass per keystroke. So if you want to spit a bunch of mass, like to shoot a virus or feed a partner, you have to jam on the button. Fire feed means you can just hold the key down and it keeps spitting. It's like converting a gun from semi- to fully-automatic. There are mod scripts that do this or one could use a "macro" program like Keyboard Maestro. Some gaming mice have built-in macro features. I consider any form of fire feed to be cheating.

It's pretty expensive (36 USD, since it's not just key mapping but does no much more), but Keyboard Maestro did exactly what I needed. A month ago I couldn't find anything that reliably worked that would let me swap Cmd+Option+Left and Cmd+Left and vice versa. It was the only thing that worked so I caved and bought it. You can make F1 keys do anything pretty much. I find it useful for mapping my Windows hotkeys to Mac so there's less transition when I work on a PC all day and then come home to my Mac.

You'd have to grab the demo and try it out, but as for the F keys, you could:

• map F1 to action Decrease Screen Brightness in Maestro
• map F2 to action Increase Screen Brightness in Maestro
• On your Mac, go Preferences->Mission Control. At the bottom you should see default commands. Now you can assign F3 to be the Mission Control launcher
• As with above, go into Preferences->Keyboard->Shortcuts->Launchpad & Dock->Check "Show Launchpad" and make F4 its shortcut
• F5 is key brightness and is irrelevant on another keyboard
• F6 same as above
• map F7 to action Previous Track in Maestro
• map F8 to action Play/Pause Current Track in Maestro
• map F9 to action Next Track in Maestro
• map F10 to action Toggle System Sound Mute in Maestro
• map F11 to action Decrease System Sound Volume in Maestro
• map F12 to action Increase System Sound Volume in Maestro

And I think that would cover everything

Keyboard Maestro is really useful for a lot of purposes... you can easily build macros to automate anything, so here you could set it to switch to Audition, hit record, then switch back to whatever you were doing with just one shortcut.

I don't understand what you're asking. You've already found keyboard maestro. Do you understand how to use it? It will let you write a script that can automate tasks. Documentation is here. There are no other technologies that you will need to use (although depending on what you're trying to do, you might be able to take advantage of other tools -- most likely wouldn't be necessary if the task really is "simple" as you describe).

I hate this glitch soo much! This one little bug is the only reason I switched back to Chrome. It's soooo goddamn frustrating!!

I have this keyboard shortcut program called Keyboard Maestro and I re-assigned all of my main firefox shortcuts to click the mouse at a stationary spot at the top of the window to re-gain keyboard focus before pushing the buttons. It was an okay work-around, but still gets super frustrating.

You need some sort of program running that will interpret your clicks in the way that you want, I use http://www.keyboardmaestro.com/

KM's interface makes sense to me in an intuitive way and has been able to accomplish anything I can think of to try to make it do. I'm pretty sure they do the free trial thing too.

You may consider keyboard maestro for those tasks. That way you can use the control flow functions to pause to verify the color and size. You can also macro the file creation and use applescript if needed.

mactutshas good articles.

Programs that are must haves for me:

keyboardmaestro

alfred

Maybe this? http://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/ There is a trial but maybe you can "download" it somewhere. I think this is what I used when I played wc3 dota on mac: http://quickeys.en.softonic.com/mac

For those that present or use projectors regularly:

SwitchResX for quick resolution changes.

Caffeine for keeping your screen lit and not going to sleep.

Also, little known for full customized automation of repetitive tasks: Keyboard Maestro (works with mouse clicks and other events too)

On Windows you can do just about anything with AutoHotkey. Bind keys and write powerful scripts with this one app.

If you're on a Mac look at Keyboard Maestro.