The action you need to use is named “Execute Terminal Command (Async, non-blocking),” which makes the button fire off a script. Turns out, you can even have BetterTouchTool become a trigger for Keyboard Maestro.įirst, create a button in the Touch Bar section of BetterTouchTool, or a group that you can place buttons in, like I have: I then fired up BetterTouchTool, which among many other things, allows you to create custom UI elements on your notebook’s Touchbar, tying them to a wide range of actions.
To re-use these macros on my MacBook Pro, I made a copy of them in Keyboard Maestro, which I have sync its data over Dropbox.
Here’s what that looks like, with my secret URLs redacted:Īs you can see, on my Mac Pro, this is triggered by a specific button my Stream Deck, as pictured above. I’m doing this via with Keyboard Maestro, another incredibly flexible tool. The MPU page in Relay’s ad-tracking system.The Stream Deck is incredibly flexible, but one of my most common use cases is to tap a single button on it to open a bunch of related Safari tabs when it comes time to prepare for a show.įor example, if I press the button with the MPU logo, it opens these pages: As with most things, he was right about how much I would come to love it. As such, it seems wise to me to make it more useful.Ī little backstory first, though… earlier this year, David Sparks finally talked me into buying a Stream Deck to use at my desk. Love it or hate it, it seems that the Touch Bar is here to stay on the MacBook Pro.
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