Automate Tasks and Get More Done
Bakari Chavanu 
@macautotips do you see any benefit to using string triggers in BTT versus @keyboardmaestro ? — Shawn Myers RN MBA (@ShawnMyersRN) January 1, 2017 This is a great question, and quite easy to answer. But I want to elaborate on it some. In a Nutshell For those who are familiar with BetterTouchTool and Keyboard Maestro, here’s …
Read moreAsk Mac Automator: BetterTouchTool vs Keyboard Maestro
I don’t get a new iPhone or Mac computer every year, but there’s hardly a month that goes by that I don’t check out a new Mac application, online service, or receive feature upgrades for the Mac automation programs I use a on a regular basis. In fact, another reason I write articles for this site is to recognize …
Read moreMy Favorite Apps and Mac Automation Updates for 2016
This article ends the second year of MacAutomationTips (MAT). While I didn’t accomplish all my goals for the site this year, I’m happy that the MAT gained over 400 new subscribers and a few thousand Twitter followers. I appreciate all the subscribers to my site, and I especially get excited when hearing from Mac users who …
Though automation programs for the iPhone and iPad are not as robust as the programs for the Mac, there are several automation and productivity apps that I use for getting things done with on my iOS devices. According to the iOS tracking app, Moment, I spend roughly three hours a day on my iPhone and iPad. These devices are my hubbub for …
Read more20 Powerful iPhone and iPad Productivity and Automation Apps
When you have an application that you use regularly, if you’re Mac automator you can’t help not automating and hacking the heck out of that application. And that’s exactly what I’ve done after just a few days of using the task manager application, Todoist (affiliate link.) If you follow this blog, you might remember that I switched to the task manager, …
I haven’t gotten my hands on the new the MacBook Pro, and though I would definitely like to replace my extremely slow 2011 MacBook Air with a faster notebook, I don’t think the MacBook Pro’s flagship feature, the Touch Bar would be highly useful in my workflow. It’s been quite a while since Apple did a significant upgrade …
Read moreThe Trackpad and String Triggers vs the MacBook Pro Touch Bar
Nothing waste more time on the computer in my view than punching hotkeys. I know…I know, hotkeys are supposed to be a faster than using the cursor for triggering computer actions, but with Mac automation tools, hotkeys and menu items don’t always need to be manually clicked. Case and point: Say you need to copy and paste several pieces of …
Read moreAutomatically Copy Selected Text with Keyboard Maestro and iClip
With the release of iOS 10, many of the 3D Touch apps received some major improvements. If you own the iPhone 6s or above, you certainly should be taking advantage of the pressure sensitive screen technology that can save you several tabs when launching apps or connecting to features in apps. After I installed iOS 10, I realized that I …
Even if you already use Spotlight, and now Siri in macOS Sierra, the productivity app, Alfred still has seriously important time-saving and click-savings features that you should be using on your Mac. As a follow-up to my webinar I presented about Alfred, I thought I’d put together a collection of tips for new users of the program. Below I write about …
Read more10+ Ways to Use Alfred to Increase Your Mac Productivity
If you’re a hardcore Mac and iOS user, you no doubt on occasion use a bluetooth keyboard to type on your iOS device. But using a bluetooth keyboard can sometimes be a tedious setup. Well thanks to Eltima Software, the remote keyboard connection is solved with Typeeto, which requires no bluetooth connections! By coincidence, I was struggling to connect my flat …