[Eugeleo]

Everyone in the comments swems to be in love with KM. I wonder, what do you all use it for? It sounds like I’m missing out on a lot, but when I’m thinking about it, nothing in need of automation comes to mind. That is, except for opening a few common apps and window management. What am I missing?

[filmgirlcw]

So many things! Opening a specific location or app or whatever with one keystroke is great, but I often also use it to run automations/macros done in AppleScript or something else with just a few keystrokes.

Extremely niche and nerdy example: Years ago, when I used to do a ton of iOS screenshot galleries for app reviews (this was when I was a tech journalist), I used a modified KM script from Federico Viticci and Gabe Weatherhead that would let me select a group of screenshots, resize them as two or three side-by-side with proper spacing between and then resize for the requirements of the CMS/website I worked for with a hot-key combo. I could even have it name the file a certain way and save it to a specific folder I had setup to auto-upload images to the CMS and then copy the image link so I could use it in my Markdown workflow that I’d cobbled together to do previewing of stuff before I put the raw HTML code in said CMS. That example was the result of like several different macros/scripts that I combined into a couple of key commands, depending on if I wanted to just do the image merging/resizing or the whole upload/copy link thing.

I’m sure there could be other ways to do that, but none as seamless and intuitively as KM.

It’s just a great tool. Even if you just use it for basic text expansion, it’s great - though I tend to use other tools for that — but the automation stuff is just top notch.

[wellthisisgreat]

I have a whole library of text snippets around various business needs or just some links / addresses I have to send often.

Something like

;elevatorpitch

Will insert an elevator pitch into the email