Switching to Keyboard Maestro

Posted on January 18, 2013
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I finally decided to switch to Keyboard Maestro. I really liked Quickeys but it hasn’t had a significant update since 2009. It’s been over a year and a half since their developer died and I’ve seen no evidence they have a new effective development team in place. I didn’t mind too much since most of the features I used still worked. The features that didn’t work properly, like toolbars, I didn’t use. However now I’m starting to hit their snippet expansion and the limits are really annoying. I’ve figured out workarounds but they are hacks and don’t always work well. At a certain point though you have to ask yourself: why am I working around this product’s limits when there’s a better product available?

Since I was already redoing my keyboard workflow while I take some time off for a new baby it’s a great time to update my macro workflow fully. So there will be quite a few posts on this as I go on.

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2 Responses to “Switching to Keyboard Maestro”
1 Christopher Stone on January 18th, 2013 10:22 pm

I’ve used QuicKeys since v1, so I was aggrieved to make this choice a year or so ago.

I have also used Keyboard Maestro since v1 (long before it was a macro utility), so it wasn’t a big transition for me.

I think QK’s UI is a bit nicer than KM’s, and it does a few things KM doesn’t — but Peter is very accommodating, and KM keeps growing.

At this point I have no confidence that Startly will ever move forward. I hope I’m wrong of course.

-ccs

Yeah there are definitely some QK features I miss although I may just not have figured the program out yet. Ill do a review comparing the two after I’ve used KM for a while.

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