Regardless, 15 keys is surprisingly versatile, because each app presents a new set of buttons. You can set buttons to open folders of yet more button sets if needed, and nest yet more folders within those.
There are many ways to use palettes. One is to use the Show Palette of Macros action. This gives you control of which macros display when you hit the hotkey. You can set one of these up in each app-specific group, all set to the same hotkey, so that hitting it will show only the macros you'd like to see when that app is front-most. If there is a way you'd like palettes to work that you wouldn't find irritating or overwhelming, it's likely possible to set them up that way.
thank you. For ergonomics reasons I will pass, but that's just me but I can clearly see its use.
I also use the Show Palette of Macros actions.
This approach I am currently discussing I find very useful.
All the credit goes to the brilliant @Nige_S
Upvote for the Stream Deck. I have the XL, with about 20 profiles, some of those with multiple pages. So I have perhaps a total of 750 or 800 “buttons”.
I tried keycue many times, but can't get over the fact that they crowd the display with many obvious shortcuts, like ⌘C for copy and many more.
I even contacted the developer to ask for a completely customizable display to no avail.
He went a circumvented route of saying that if I use a shortcut often, it will no longer be displayed, but I don't have the patience.
To answer your question succinctly, it takes about ten seconds. You add a KM Link button to your Stream Deck profile, then select the macro from the button's dropdown list. The most recently edited macro is always at the top of the list. From there you can name the button and/or add an icon if you like.
Sorry to bother you again.
How do you identify individual macros on such small buttons ?
When I use palettes, I see the full title of the macro as in "save and share to yoink" or "Export → Markdown → BBEdit → clean text PDF Expert " or "Pick From List Composite Files,URL,Bear,Scrivener,DevonThink Notes".
With so many and often long macro names, it would seem inconceivable to use icons instead of names.
thank you
The Stream Deck software includes an icon library, but I like to make my own. You can use these or coloured name labels (by simply typing in the button's Title box) to identify your macros and actions.
As you can see in the image above, you can add short or long names to the buttons and adjust the font size to fit longer names if necessary. This may or may not suit your preference.
@ronald Your advisors are absolutely right. A Stream Deck can be really useful. And apparently you've already bought one. I decided against it because I travel a lot and don't have the stream deck with me. I have found a good replacement. But it only works if you have a Macbook with physical F-Keys, use the internal keyboard and are willing to invest 10 bucks. If you're interested, I'll be happy to explain. Otherwise have fun with your Stream Deck
You can set KeyCue v10.1 to just show your Keyboard Maestro shortcuts. Here I've set macro hotkeys (these includes Keyboard Maestro) to show by holding the control key for about a second. Also shown but not displayed are showing system-wide shortcuts by holding the option key for about a second and the menu hotkeys by holding the command key for about a second. There are other triggers available, these are just the ones I picked.
