The finger gesture application, BetterTouchTool has hundreds of built-in actions that are based the type of tasks and actions you perform on your Mac everyday.
While many of the actions you create in BTT will be ones for activating menu bar shortcuts, the built-in actions provide a range of other actions that don’t have keyboard shortcuts.
It’s difficult to see the actions in BTT without clicking on the drop-down selections for each set of actions. Thus following screenshots allow you to peruse the available actions and see which ones might be useful in your Mac workflow and daily tasks.
Auxiliary Actions
BTT Related Actions
Mouse Click Actions
Other Mouse Actions
Controlling Other Applications
Note the “Send Shortcut to Specific App” allows for activating a shortcut in an application using an assigned finger gesture, while you’re working in another application. I use this action for controlling iTunes and Rdio.
OS X Functionality
Window Interaction
Window Resize & Move
Note the action for moving a window to the next monitor. This is great for Mac users who use two more monitors.
Keyboard Keys
System Actions
Utility Actions
Note the “Past Custom Text” action, which means you can actually paste snippets of text using your trackpad or Magic Mouse.
Mimicking Standard Gestures
Share Your Favorites
I hope you find this set of screenshots useful for getting more out of BetterTouchTool. Let me and my readers know which actions you favor or which ones you have questions about.
BTT How-to Course
BetterTouchTool is fairly easy to learn, but I have created an entire course that teaches you how to get up and going with BTT, and how to use all its main features.
- 13 video tutorials with step by step instructions for using all the main features in BTT with a trackpad.
- 11 PDF guides with screenshots and step-by-step instructions.
- A PDF guide of all the BTT actions I currently use.
- Best practices for using BTT .
- Setting up and using iOS BTT Remote
- Free lifetime updates to all the course content.
Switch to Last Application seems to be missing lately…Now my 4 finger swipe down only brings up the Application Switcher, not the last application… 🙁
Hmmm, if you can, try another finger gesture, like a Three Finger Clickswipe Up. Not sure why else it’s not switching to the last app. My gesture still works for me. Is the gesture application specific or is it global? Feel free to write me directly at Bakaric at me dot com.