Keeping Maestro Clean

[JFKansas]

So I am coming in to a company with almost 500 macros. I know a lot of these are not used anymore. I also know you can sort by last used macro.

Is there anyway to pull raw data over weeks of use between 4 workstations to tell me which macros are actually being used? I'd like to kill off or archive any macros that have 0 runs over a long time period.

[mrpasini]

Macro Reporter Macro displays usage for every macro in any group.

[JFKansas]

Thanks, interesting will have to try it out. I did find an interesting way of doing this by setting an incremental value on every macro. So every time a Macro is ran it updates a variable by 1. Seems like a lot of work to ad almost 500 variables and add the script to each macro.

Then via a web service like google sheets you can report the values for analysis after a few weeks running.

[mrpasini]

The data is already being logged by KM. My macro just retrieves what KM counts.

[ccstone]

MACRO: A Macro to Track Macro Usage

I know Keyboard Maestro has some built-in usage tracking, and you can easily view your macros sorted by use order. But you can't see the actual counts in the sorted view; you have to use the inspector to see the count for a particular macro. It also tracks everything, all the time, and can't be reset (I don't think). I wanted a tool that I would show all my macro usage in one report, that I could use to only track macros I wanted to track, and that would be easy to reset if I decided to do so (…