Flexible palette / macro bar

I now have so many useful macros that I'm running out of easy to press keyboard shortcuts. I've read about ways to use smart keyboard shortcuts, organised in groups etc.

Before I dive into that approach, I'd like to investigate another approach: flexible palettes or macro bars to which I can simply add macros by activating a checkbox in their actions.

So, for a specific job I need a macro to make every letter after a line break uppercase, a macro to replace spaces with line breaks, a macro to replace round brackets with square brackets etc.

I open these macros and click a checkbox to add them to a vertical or horizontal palette or bar.

Is there already a solution for this?

The already included Palettes are very useful and flexible enough for any need:

https://wiki.keyboardmaestro.com/manual/Palettes

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I guess you're right.

Just add all useful macros to a palette, or duplicate them to several palettes for specific projects.

(Or perhaps better: use placeholders (macros that call macros) to add them to several palettes, to keep only one instance of every macro, to simplify modification/debugging.)

And activate them ad libitum. (The magic switch I needed.)

Thanks for the reminder.

Yes, you might prefer to create an Alias (Edit > Make Alias).
So you keep the original macro in its original macro group, and just move this newly created alias to a separate macro group.

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