![]() Any macOS user can use spotlight, or a third party launcher like LaunchBar or Alfred, or pressing command tab, but although relatively quick these methods are still not instant as clicking with a mouse might be. They can go to the dock and use first letter navigation, or bring up a list of apps as a VoiceOver command (control-option-f1 twice). ![]() i have always felt VoiceOver users should be using these as much as they can, they have saved me a bunch of time for sure.įor VoiceOver users, one of the areas where they probably lose the most time repetitively is in switching apps. there are several more automation secrets hidden inside macOS, like three tools inside VoiceOver I use every day. iOS users have had Shortcuts, formerly Workflow, for some time, and now we finally have them also on macOS. Bunch by Brett Terpstra may be another automagical gem that just needs time to catch on. On the Mac though probably on its way out, is automator, a program people can use to make macros of tasks they repetitively perform, but Keyboard Maestro is much better, especially after its new release version 10 last month. In the podcast Automators episode 86, Rosemary Orchard used the phrase micro automations, small automations requiring only a few lines of script code, things Rosemary feels many computer users could write or use, even if not programmers. Recently I wrote about adding keyboard shortcuts to macOS apps. Many of us now use computers, which do many things faster than we possibly could ever do by ourselves. In the majority of cases,, technology exists to speed up a task one finds themselves doing often, thus improving one’s life. ![]()
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