Open Drafts and Obsidian with Windows Zoomed to the Max

Questions & Suggestions
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I'm trying to launch Drafts and Obsidian with windows zoomed to the maximum screen size (not full-screen), but it does not work as intended if they are already open.

Drafts always live in the menu bar. I played around, but I don't know how to fix this.

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Try this.

What's the ⇧⌘F type-a-keystroke action supposed to be doing?

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Keyboard Maestro Export

Macro-Notes
  • Macros are always disabled when imported into the Keyboard Maestro Editor.
    • The user must ensure the macro is enabled.
    • The user must also ensure the macro's parent macro-group is enabled.
System Information
  • macOS 10.14.6
  • Keyboard Maestro v10.2
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This was to toggle the full-screen layout for the tiling window manager.

The Drafts app requires a definitive "click" inside the dock or application switcher in order to open as I expect.

I also tried changing the File<New with File New Draft (which is the actual menu name, and it opens the window, but in the macro, it didn't work — I'm still going to experiment around.

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This makes no sense to me at all...

But I'm testing on macOS Mojave, and that could be making the difference.

As far as I know Drafts is a normal app that appears in the Dock and App-Switcher, although it does have it's menulet in the menu bar if the user has selected that option.

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This menu (and other menulet apps) is NOT available to Keyboard Maestro's Select or Show a Menu Item action.

What happens if you run this AppleScript from Apple's anemic Script Editor app?

tell application "Drafts"
   activate
end tell

It it works then you can use a Execute an AppleScript action in Keyboard Maestro.

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Hey, the AppleScript hasn't worked either, but my needs have changed and I don't need this macro anymore. Opening the app itself via Raycast doesn't require a macro anymore. I really appreciate the tremendous amount of help you've given me! And I'm marking this as solved.

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