 Hello and welcome to the live stream today. We are talking about productivity one of my my my favorite topics can be a dangerous one though Because you can spend too much time on productivity as opposed to actually getting stuff done If that makes sense Today we're going to be talking then about a number of tools that I use and I've made several videos about this in the past But it's something that I've been getting asked about a lot recently Just with the start of the take one Tech Academy number of Academy members have been starting to implement some of these things And then asking me about various different aspects of it So I thought it was worth revisiting and to be honest this live stream could be a 24-hour live stream because there's just so much that could be covered in it But what I will be talking about is specifically Streamdeck being the sort of hub of a lot of this and then that coupled with keyboard maestro Which is one of my all my main productivity and automation tool and then also some other tools that I use with that including Moom for Organizing my screen and getting everything where I need it to be for whatever I'm happened to be doing on a given day or at a given moment and then also hazel for organizing my files and folders and text expander for text expansion and things like that now keyboard maestro can actually do Everything that those other three apps can do so you can use it for window management You can use it for text expansion expanding out text snippets into much larger bodies of text and you can also use it for The other one hazel for organizing files and watching folders and doing various different things The reason why I still use those other three sort of standalone applications is just because of The ease of use of actually creating these these workflows using those different tools So it's sometimes you know a one-trick pony as it were is the sort of better option rather than doing everything through Through keyboard maestro and certainly there's More ease of setup So we say with things like movement and text expander to just quickly create these things as opposed to go in and doing it in keyboard maestro. I digress Maybe you haven't even got a clue what all of those apps are so I'll go and introduce them one by one but we'll start off with text expander actually because Sorry with stream deck because there's a lot that you can do with stream deck without those other apps So I'll just give a sort of brief introduction as to how you might use stream deck as a productivity tool I got an email just the other day from somebody who'd mentioned that they'd bought a stream deck having watched some of my videos And they're not a live streamer They don't use it for live streaming or anything like that, but they've just been so impressed by What a productivity tool it is and indeed the stream deck is something that I bought for Creating videos for my YouTube channel and then I quickly realized, you know, it's just it's just a productivity powerhouse So let's start there. Shall we I'll just say a few hello's Hey to Hello to hello to a stranger Malcolm Johnson from Scotland. That's my dad Hey Parker, great to see you here as well. Hey David Paul Duncan moderator extraordinaire Chris Tim, this is I always have you in my mind when I do this because I know you're been asking for so long for the keyboard maestro stuff and One of the problems that I have with keyboard maestro as I was just saying to the chaps in the backstage discord live-stream backstage area of discord Was that yeah, I never know quite where to draw the line with keyboard maestro because it's so big a topic You know, how to how do you sort of cover everything? It's yeah, it could be a month longer You know 40 hour week masterclass for a year and still not cover keyboard maestro But anyway, I'll try and cover some new stuff today for you Chris I think I recognize that that's avatar. Maybe not Yeah, I think it is I don't know say it wrong but hey Gina great to see you here Great to see you too. Apologies if I make a mess of your name Tanju and great to see you Melvin or Mervin Melvin. I think I Always get it the wrong way round. Hey Michael. This is indeed. Yes. Yes, Melvin. Great to see you And Michael great to see you here too. And we've also got the stream elements bot Welcome to you too Right. Okie dokie. Let's let's crack on and just quick final couple of hello's rebel without a reason great to see you And Michael in the UK as well. Okie dokie So let's start off then with with stream deck shall we and talk about just a few of the basic sort of productivity things that you can do with with that so I by the way, I Recently added a second stream deck excel to my my collection. So I've now got two and then also the the stream deck plus and Before I got too far into stream deck the way that I use the stream deck plus because it's it's a great device I love the dials. They're really useful for Adjusting levels in in ecamp is one great thing so you can have individual levels for each interview guest for example I'm also great for things like photoshop adjusting brush sizes and stuff like that But the the buttons I always felt like they could have had a few more buttons on here So I wouldn't necessarily recommend this is like the primary stream deck device you have But if you have another stream deck, it's actually great for switching profiles on On one stream deck with the other one So I have my sort of main setups that I want to switch between on here You can also swipe to different pages on it by swiping along here, which is pretty useful But then basically I use this to change What is on this so if you'll see if I press this button here it changes this all over to my zoom profile And if I press this one, it'll go back to my the one I'm using right now excuse me and So so yeah, it's it's a great way to sort of control your your other stream deck and have it switch profiles I'll just mention because somebody was asking me the day about the stream deck pedal The stream deck pedals are great and do I use them? Yes, I do. I've become a bit attached to them but I bought another one just last week and The subsequently both of them failed now I just want to say this because Elgato are replacing them both But I suspect that maybe the thing that caused them to fail was the fact that they were plugged into a power hub I unplugged them to sort of rearrange where they were unplugged them back in and within sort of hours of each other Both of them failed and I wonder if sort of hot plugging as it were was what caused a power surge Maybe they got a sensitive a bit of electronics in them or something like that that they'd actually sort of killed them so and the first pedal I'd had for 11 months, but it had been plugged in untouched and well Touched all the time with my feet But I mean I hadn't been moving it around for 11 months and no problem whatsoever But it was only when I kind of unplugged it and moved it that it suddenly died So I wonder if there's that that is the issue. I'm just mentioning this in case you have a Pedal you may want to never unplug it or hot plug it into a powered hub just in case that is the issue And they said it wasn't a known issue, but anyway I thought I'll just pass that on I'm rambling a little bit and I still haven't got into what we need to talk about Excuse me Here we are in the stream deck application and you can select which stream deck it is you are controlling from here And then I'll just go to a blank page a few really sort of Simple uses that you can have from a productivity point of view for stream deck is to actually just open up apps So if you have different work modes that you're in where you want to open a whole series of apps You can do that to quite simply in stream deck. So first of all if I come to the the stream deck buttons down here Incidentally, if you've watched any previous videos of from me or anyone else about stream deck Then they'll often refer to all the stream deck controls being under this stream deck heading over here However, in a recent update at stream deck basically split or Algato split them out into these three So now you've got all the ones that were originally contained in the stream deck list have now been split out into navigation and Multi-action so that's where they all are if you've suddenly think that you've lost a load of the built-in actions They've just moved into a different folder But from here you can do things like if I come down to the system Where is it? System section. I'm just going over it. There goes right in front of me So you can have it do things like open a website. So just literally type in the URL you want it to go to And it'll open up in the default browser Like that take one take I owe there we go So if I if I just press that button now It's basically just going to open that open my website So if there's websites that you go to regularly that are part of your sort of workflow that you need to go to Then you can basically add buttons in for all of those there's better ways of doing this as well We'll go through we'll see because here you can't necessarily select the browser So it's just going to use your default browser But nevertheless that might be useful. Obviously you can put your title onto the button as well I'm not going to talk about icons. It's easy to just sort of drag and drop icons onto here I've covered all of that before just keep to the productivity stuff today You can also have it open files folders and applications. So this open I think a lot of people just assume that that is just for an application But as you can see it says app file, but also folder as well. And so if I go and choose an application from here Click on the little choose button. It's going to open up somewhere. Where's it going to open up? Somewhere else. Oh, there is It's It's funny that is it's not showing for me Interesting I can see it's showing for you but not for me. Now. Why is that happening like that? Or is it? Oh, no, it's not. It's just I beg your pardon. I thought it's The little file picker has shown up over the top of my e-cam. So it looked like it was in my screen share But it's not okay. Here it is So let me just open a random random app say audio hijack. I don't use that too much anymore actually But one thing is it brings in the the app icon so you can see the little app icon has then appeared on the the screen And you can if you've got the app icon you may not want the title so just incidentally You can click on the little title box down here and Hide the title so now you see the titles not there. It still appears in the box here But it just doesn't appear on the app So that is how you can open a a an application But you can also come to open and then you could have a particular file So if you've got a particular file that you That you you know go into maybe it's an accounts file or a Working file or whatever it is something that you open regularly So I have a number of different Excel files that I update with information and stuff So you can just come in here and instead of going into the applications folder Which is where it will come to from a default you can basically just open up any any file So it doesn't have to be an app But also you can select a folder so if I was to select this folder here Click on open you can see that that's going to open a folder And so when I press that button it will just open the file up with that folder So again if there's something you do as part of your workflow where you need to get access to Certain files and folders. It's really easy to do in here now so far We've just looked at doing individual tasks here But maybe it is that as part of your workflow you want to open a certain website Open some apps up and then open some folders and files So a great one here is multi actions I use these all the time so you can right click on any button and go to create multi action Or you can come to the the multi action menu over here and create multi action from here So if I drag and drop that on this then opens up this little second window here And basically from here you can just drag it and drop actions into this area And that means that when you press the button it's going to perform all of these tasks So you may want to have it open up a whole series of apps So if I go back to that system, let's just assume we go in here we choose an app Put an app in there. Let's just choose something at random Where are we I'll just use the same one because it's just right there So this is opening audio hijack But then you could just go and drop a whole series of other things on here You know if you've got five or six apps that you need to work with at any given time You can just drag those all in Opening files you can do that from there as well. Maybe you need to open some websites Whatever it happens to be so that means that with that one button you can open all of those different things And I've just noticed from Steve. Hey street Steve great to see you And can I get stream deck to close the active folder if you mean that there's like the folder on the desktop Unfortunately, no, so you can't do that with with stream deck itself It's only got the open command not a close and as I say with the with the hyperlinks as well If you're opening a website and you're not you don't have control over which browser it's opening in However, we can do that with with keyboard my stroke. So we'll come to that a little bit later So I'm and Melvin saying when When you've got stream deck open Is there a way to have a panel for each unit open at the same time to make programming multiple units easier? No, there isn't actually but that would be great because I find myself doing that Especially with multiple stream decks where you want to copy something from one to another Then you can like if I could I came here copied this then I could switch to my other stream deck Go to this spot here and paste so you can copy and paste stuff between stream decks Which I find myself doing quite often, but no unfortunately You can't have them both open at the at the same time So no, it would make it a lot easier that would So so yeah That's basically how you can use stream deck just on its own as a great way to get yourself set up for you know Certain things that you might be doing certain workflows that you've got so that everything is it's just sort of on the screen as you need it It's not going to be organized on the screen just yet, but we'll talk about that in a little while with moon but I want to go into keyboard maestro a little bit because Keyboard maestro really is the ultimate productivity tool and I was talking with Peter and Jeff in the discord just before we came on and Yeah, the the feeling that I think people get sometimes with keyboard maestro is it can appear very Overwhelming to begin with just because it can do so many things and the danger is to try and well first of all be put off by that So that would be one thing is to just look at it and think oh my gosh. There's so much there It's just too much. I'm not even going to bother and all the other thing to do would be to or to not do would be the thing I did when I started using keyboard maestro was thinking up. Oh my gosh. This is amazing There are so much it can do let me think of a thousand things it can do Program a load of macros and then properly forget them all because they hadn't really become embedded into my workflow So those are the two sort of things to avoid what you should do is approach keyboard maestro Thinking about like the fact that it can basically do anything that you could do on your Mac And so what are the tasks that you find yourself doing repetitively? And then notice when you're doing those and then go and look for a way to actually get keyboard maestro to do that And we'll go through the process of how you actually create a macro like that So just quickly architectural sheet metal are you what's your name by the way just serve the tuck in there? Do I call you mr. Sheep metal or architectural? But are you saying stream that can auto switch camera angles? Yeah, it also Streamdeck certainly can do that. I mean, that's what I use to make all of my videos So like I can press a button here and it will switch to my top-down shot switch like that So that's what I use for for making these videos. It's what I'm using to switch two different screens Yeah, and and the software that I'm using ecamm live is has a really great plug-in for streamdeck So in fact, I should probably just mention plug-ins for streamdeck as well But yeah, they've got one of the if not the biggest library of actions that I've seen in streamdeck Let me just tell you what I'm talking about that. Sorry. I should have mentioned that. Yeah, Bill It is keyboard maestro is for Mac I don't know about an equivalent for P. I'm pair for PC. I'm sure there is some sort of automation equivalents I just don't know offhand what they are It's been it's been a while since I've used PC. So yeah, I'm not too sure about that I'm sure there are some and Yeah, I'm sure that the PC's got also some built-in Slight sort of built-in functionality as well. But yeah, I'm not too sure about that one if the is the answer Sorry, Bill But just quickly going back to streamdeck just in case there are I'm assuming a certain level of knowledge about streamdeck. I have got a whole series of videos sort of beginner's guide I'll go back and drop a link to I did a sort of start to finish beginner's guide in In in on my channel So I'll go and drop a link into that back in the description after the fact But just quickly about plug-ins for streamdeck Since we are still here. Sorry for jumping about a little bit But yeah, these these things down the side here and each one of these little groups You got e-cam live that is the e-cam live plug-in for streamdeck And so e-cam live has created all of these different things that you can do so start mark the video Switch your scenes switch cameras Show and hide things on screen and all of that kind of stuff So this is all of the different actions that you can do with e-cam It's a really really comprehensive thing that you can basically control almost anything in e-cam with that And I use this a lot with zoom in fact primarily you you know for meetings And so being able to just go into a zoom meeting, you know looking like this as in with the you know The e-cam production sort of quality and then switch scenes To switch cameras and share screen and so on Is just a really sort of seamless seamless sort of flow essentially with the streamdeck And by the way, some of the stuff might look a little bit complex with streamdeck But it's really quick to get up and running So I was on a coaching call with a chap yesterday who had never used e-cam or streamdeck And was giving online webinars on zoom and sort of within two hours. We went from never having touched it to Being able to just you know switch between different scenes and give a presentation and all that kind of stuff And it's very quick to sort of get up to speed with it to understand the potential and then it just becomes muscle memory of Then of remembering which buttons to press But in any case so there are and these sort of built-in Plugins, but there is also a streamdeck library that has a whole host of other plugins that do various different things So as well as just those very basic Automation and productivity things that I've just talked about. Oh, by the way, look the streamdeck plus is now out in white Keely if you're watching So if I come to plugins, there's a whole load of other things in here So if you use things like Elgato lighting, then you can control your lights from streamdeck I talked about e-cam live. Many people use OBS. I Lost my final hair with OBS before I switched to e-cam, but there you go So you can control OBS with it lots of other different things in here And different plugins for you to control various different things. There's a zoom plugin a Microsoft Teams plug-in So just in terms of it being a great productivity tool I highly recommend just going and checking out all of these other plugins To see you know if there's anything in there that you use any applications where this can basically make it all sort of Operable at the touch of a button So so yeah, let's get on to keyboard maestro and I've talked about it But I haven't really talked about what it is So for those that are new to it. I know that there's lots of people in the chat that are More than familiar and they're just waiting for some new information But keyboard maestro basically you have three columns in here So the first one is your sort of groups of macros so a macro is some sort of little automation process So down here on the left hand side. We've got the way that I personally just grouped all of my things together When you are in one of those groups and so here I'm just happened to be in this one pedal switch I'll talk about that in a moment You have a list then of macros that are within that group And then over here is just some information about the grouping that you've got But if you click on any one of these macros Then you'll see down here what the automation steps are So if I just create a new new macro in here Just give it the old test name now a macro basically consists of two parts in short And there is some form of trigger that's going to cause this macro to happen And then there is some sort of thing that is going to happen once it's being triggered. So it says Triggered by any of the following and so we'll go through what those are and then it will execute the following actions So the first part then is the the triggers. So if I click on new trigger It can be and the way a lot of people use this is with hotkeys So, you know, you press a shortcut key or whatever and it triggers this macro But you can also just use it with stream deck I'll show you how to do that in a moment But basically where you just press the stream deck button and then it triggers the macro and in fact in that case You can just leave this completely blank because we're just going to trigger it by the stream deck But there's a whole load of other triggers in here So things like clipboard changed. So it might be that when you Copy something in there, you know to the clipboard and so that causes the clipboard to be changed It automatically does something so you might want it that every time you copy something from the clipboard It then triggers some series of actions like pasting it somewhere or logging it somewhere or whatever it is Dragged file so it could be that whereas you start to drag a file something pops up for you to drop it in a certain location Let's just go through and look at a load of these folder trigger So that would be you know a new file appears in a folder. Maybe it goes and automatically sorts it somewhere That's one of the ones that I use a different app for so that's where we hazel comes in. I'll talk about hazel a bit later You've got gesture triggers and things like that Mounted volume trigger. So that would be you know, like when you connect a certain disk You might want it to just automatically do a backup or something like that Then there is periodic trigger. So every so often, you know, whatever it happens to be do something You've also got things like Wireless network trigger so it's just dropping off the bottom of the screen there at wireless network trigger So one thing you might want it to do is when you join a you know, the the local coffee shop Wi-Fi That it turns off a load of stuff. So you may not want it syncing certain Files and folders and things like that over a and potentially unsecured network or maybe you just want to turn off You know iCloud sync or whatever it is. So those are the sorts of things you can do with these triggers There's also timed ones, of course You could have it so that it just comes on at you know, whatever time you're in bed and automatically does a backup or Things like that. So there's all these different sort of triggers But basically the short of this is that you know anything that you think that you do normally as part of Either a part of a routine or something that you have to do there's going to be a trigger in here and that is You know, it's going to simulate that so we're always just looking for what is it that I'm doing What is it that I want to automate and how can I automate it? And so there will be some sort of trigger in here that matches up with that And it may be just that you're going to press a button to do it rather than you do it But that is the the triggers and you can have sort of multiple different triggers I won't get into scripting this is too too too big a topic to start getting into all of that as well But here then we go on to the following action. So we'll execute the following action So this is like once it has been triggered and what is it going to do? So if you come and click on one action This is where sometimes the the O word the overwhelm can start because if you click on new action And then you look at all actions here So this is all of the different things that it could potentially do And there's really a lot of them and I think a lot of people start looking down this list Maybe some of them don't make sense as well. And so there's the temptation to then think It's too complicated. I'm not interested or as I say the other way is to think look at all these things Let me try and make it do them all So don't be off put off By the sheer volume of things that it can do The best way to look at it is the fact that that means that whatever it is that you are doing that you want to replicate You can probably have it do those those things for you So it's things like Let's just look at say the Like a file. So if you type in the search box, they are split by the way So if you're looking categories go to all actions is going to list everything you can favorite them You can also see them. They've sort of split them down here So there's certain things related to images, you know, image sizes and all of that kind of stuff And if I go to here and just type in file Then you can see all the things related to a file. So copy a file, delete a file, duplicate a file, all of those kind of things You can look at things like menu. So maybe you want to activate something in a menu. This, by the way, is one that I use all the time So if you've found yourself in a situation where you want to control an app But it's not the active app and you're having to sort of switch back to it all the time one of those use cases for me was When I'm watching YouTube videos that are instructional videos and I want to be able to pause the video whilst I'm doing the thing Or I want to be able to skip forward or backwards in the video in YouTube Like I'm watching a tutorial on how to use an application Well, if I'm doing the thing in the application Then that I'm trying to learn or whatever Then I'd have to go back to the YouTube window in the browser to go to YouTube to then go and pause the video Well, one of the great actions that I love in keyboard maestro is This one which is select or show menu item. So if I drag that into this macro here What this allows me to do is actually Basically activate anything from any menu in any application that is open So if I just move this over so you can see this a bit So what would happen if I run this macro is it's going to basically activate a menu item So if I go to select menu, but I'll click on this menu here This is showing me all of my open applications. So let me just go to ecum since that's what I'm using at the moment Then it's going to have all of the ecum live menus. So if I click on scene You can see it's pulled up all of my different scene lists down here So you'll you're seeing basically whatever the menu tree is for that application. Let's go into a different one finder So this is these lists this list down here that I'm scrolling through That corresponds directly to the mess list that you see in your menu bar So you have the Apple menu you have the finder menu file edit view go and so on So you could do, you know go to file New folder for example. So if I did that then what this would do is When I run this macro by whatever trigger I've got it may be a stream deck button And then it's going to create a new folder in the finder But the crucial part is even if the finder isn't the most, you know frontmost window So that's the the important thing about this is it can activate things in windows for applications That aren't actually the active application as long as the application is open. I'm not sure why you would create a folder Randomly without the the application being open, but it shows the the sort of the process there So that is the the one that I use all the time and that's on my website I've got a number of icon packs. So just incidentally and and this is how I've done these so Zoom is an icon pack for stream deck that uses the zoom built-in plug-in But there's some like custom controls in there that I've added in as well But this one here is specifically the one I was just referring to so this YouTube icon pack Basically, I've got all of the different keyboard shortcuts For YouTube have been sort of programmed into keyboard maestro as macros And then this key this stream deck icon pack is basically triggering those macros to do things like, you know Turn on the closed captions forward backwards go to the next time stamp in the in the YouTube video Speed it up slow it down go to a particular point. So I'm controlling YouTube in the browser But from keyboard maestro when it's not the active application if that makes sense and it just one other thing There's another sort of similar Macro in keyboard maestro then That I'm using to do that Which is a keystroke. So if I click on new action here, I'm going to just type in keystroke Because actually that that particular one is not not operating a menu menu command. It is typing a keystroke But typing a keystroke if I just drag this down You can simulate a keystroke But if you click this little thing here and you can actually send the keystroke to a specific application as well so if you've got a keyboard shortcut or like in in YouTube for example in a browser pressing the space bar when you're watching the video that's going to play and pause the video So if you wanted to simulate that keystroke in the browser Even when it wasn't the active application, you could come in here simulate keystroke space But then click on this little cog icon But then send to and then you could just choose safari So if I come down here, it's just off the bottom of the list for you, but it's just there safari So now that's going to type the keystroke space in safari So that would be there basically there that macro if I just delete this second part That macro there is basically your play and pause button in in YouTube So it's a really simple thing like it's just a macro with one single action but actually it's really useful to be able to trigger that from a Streamdeck button and know that you're going to be able to play and pause your your YouTube video So that is pretty simple in terms of an action But it's one I use all the time and it might be something that you find is you know And it's one that you might immediately add into a workflow that you've got Things can get more complex and you can chain different things together as well Another one that I use all the time You might find that you do something repetitively where you've got a login to a certain Website you've got to go and click on a button Maybe type in some information click on another button and these sorts of things where you find that you're Constantly doing this same repetitive task over and over again One of those that I do all the time is uploading videos to YouTube and there is no Sort of simple automated way to just say right upload a video to YouTube Actually, you can do it any cum life. I tell a lie You can have it upload your your previous video to YouTube But I have it set so that I want to do it from the finder just because I do rename my my files In the finder first and so if I show you what this one looks like and I've got it here somewhere It's this one to take one tech upload so This here upload last e-cam file to YouTube This uses a macro called Click on found image or move and click on found image and what that means is that you can have keyboard maestro Look for an image that is on the screen and then go and click on it So if we look at this this shows you basically like a much longer chain of macros So here it's doing lots of different things one after the other And I'll just run you through this in a simple sequence and you'll kind of get the idea of what it's doing So the first thing that it is doing is it's going to execute the following so new Google Chrome window with URL So that's one of the macros this is this thing that I read at the top is always kind of the name of the macro And if I was to search for a new macro in here if I search for URL You'll see that we've got all of those so basically get a URL open a URL and so on if I click on browser There is one in here for browser somewhere if I can spell it right can never type and type type and spell So click browser link and so on so but what this is doing then is first of all it is Opening this URL for YouTube studio in the browser Now when you open YouTube studio in the browser, I'm just going to get it up right now So I can show you what it looks like it when you want to upload a video Just open it up and I'll share the screen with you Now I'm opening this in Safari just so that I'm not opening an extra Chrome window When you want to upload a video in Safari in in YouTube On this one here You Wrong scene Here when you want to upload a video in YouTube You basically come up to here where it says create and then you have to click on this button create And then you have to click on here to say upload video and Then you have to click on here to select file or you can drag and drop it But you can click on the select file and Then this will bring up this picker and it's going to default to a certain thing Which in my case is ecom live recordings and then it's got a list of files now I have these sorted in chronological order. So the last one is always at the bottom So I'm always going to want to go and click on this one And then I'm going to want to go down to the bottom and click on upload The last one happened to be the last recording of our Q&A for Academy members But that is the process that I go through I have to click on this button up here Click on upload videos click on select files and then pick the file Which is the bottom most one in this list So because this is something that I'm doing all the time and I wanted to replicate it What I've done is that that's exactly what I've done here So if we follow through these steps, the first thing is Google Chrome and it's going to open a YouTube URL The next step is it waits for four seconds just because it takes a while for the browser to open up and load up and whatever So it probably doesn't take that long But I'm just allowing some time because it doesn't matter once I press the button I don't need to worry about a second here or there So it takes four seconds Then I'm using this thing which is click on found image So I'll just show you where that is if you click on new action Actually, the easiest way to do it is just to type found click at found image So that is the macro that I sort of dragged and dropped on the other side And I don't know if you can see there, but there's a tiny little image And all I did was I just went into my my youtube studio and I just took a screenshot a screenshot of just the button So it's the button that I wanted to click on so in there in youtube studio I literally press command shift four which is the max shortcut for take a screenshot And then I just literally put it over this button And now I've just taken a screenshot and then back in keyboard maestro I've come in here and I've dragged and dropped that onto the little image thing Now actually you can have it do lots of things with this found image You can have it click on the image You can have it double click triple click or just move the mouse to that position You can also have it click with the left button the right button the center button or any other button you've got on your mouse If it's something where you need to Hold a modifier key down as you click as well Then you can do that here so you can see the modifiers And you can also have it Do it to a relative position So it might be that there's an image and you want to click either to the side or to the top of the bottom or whatever So at the moment, I've got this clicking at the found images center But you can have it clicking in the corner the top the bottom wherever So there's all these different sort of refinements, but I'm just clicking in the center There's the the image And then you can also say whether you want it to look in all screens in the main screen So if you've got things opening in different places, you've got all this control over, you know where it's going to be Clicking basically So that's basically clicking On that create button so that step one is Or step two that is open the browser click on that button And then I've got it waiting for two seconds to wait for that little pop-up to come up Now if you remember if we go back here Um, so so far what this has done is we've opened the browser. It's clicked on create Now we need it to click on this one upload videos And so coming back to keyboard maestro That is exactly what this one is doing this this next one after that little pause is now clicking on this one Which is upload video. So it's looking for that image to upload the video and clicking on that Now it's waiting for two seconds And then if you remember the next step is that there's a little button to say search for files So now we're clicking on that button to search for files Now it waits for two seconds to bring up the, you know, the little find a viewer or whatever to pick a file And if you remember we want to click on the bottom most File So what I have it doing is I have it looking for the mp4 extension and then if there is more of them on then If if if there is more occurrences of that little image Then you can choose do you want it to be the bottom most top most it needs to be unique the best match So I just have it clicking on the bottom most because then I know that it's basically finding the one that's at the bottom of the list So that is then basically clicking on the the most recent file Then it's waiting for two seconds and then it's typing the return key hitting the keystroke return So this whole series here this whole sequence Is basically just simulating me going and Opening youtube clicking upload video clicking select to upload video clicking the finder Clicking on the video and clicking to upload it. So all of that is just done as part of this macro There's another part to macros, which is once you've created a macro and you can actually Use that and call that into another macro. So it's almost like if you've done any coding It's like sub routines So you can have one thing that does this thing But then you can call it many times if you want in in another macro So I wanted to keep this part the upload process separate to my main Sort of upload workflow. So after I've finished recording a video If I go to this one tot upload workflow And the first thing that this does Well, first thing it does is actually hide all applications So when I want to get into my sort of upload workflow or my post recording workflow First of all it hides all applications So there is just an action in keyboard maestro, which is called hide all applications So it wipes the desktop basically it doesn't close them. It just hides them This one here is execute macro So This is how you can basically call in another macro and this one execute macro upload last ecum file That's basically as part of this macro. It's going to do all those things that I've just run through that were in that other macro And then what it does is it does a whole series of things. So it opens my ecum live recordings folder It opens the last folder the last video because I'll go through and watch it to put in timestamps in theory That's the theory And then the opens up finder Then it opens up various other different things like my I've got an excel sheet that I add in some information about all the videos that I make It opens up photoshop and opens up specifically my thumbnail file that I make my thumbnails with And then also this last one here is it's activating moon So basically this macro here if the first one there is just dealing with upload into youtube This one deals with opening up all the other things that I have open There's a text file that opens up as well that I then sort of process the video with in terms of Adding in some information adding in The thumbnail and so on. So it just basically sets up my my my monitor for that workframe That that work mode that sort of frame of mind Um, so as you can see they can get quite complex But at the same time all of those things are just a series of simple steps And it's the steps that I noticed that I was doing every time and that's the way to think about this is You know, if you find yourself opening a series of applications There is a macro to open the applications if you're finding yourself opening a folder You can open a folder from here If it's a particular file or if you're clicking on something you can do that all in in here Another one that I use quite a lot and just to give an example of these this idea of subroutines Is in ecamm live ecamm live has a whole series of Utility windows. So if I just share my entire Ecamm desktop, although actually my ecamm live is up here at the moment. Let me just bring it down You'll see what I'm talking about If I pop this down here Where's it gone now, so if I share my entire desktop right now What you'll see is that I've basically got ecamm open down at the bottom I have this scenes window, which is all the different scenes that I've got overlays Camera effects. I usually have the camera switcher open and some other things But I've got them closed at the moment for the live stream And so if you want to use a keyboard maestro to sort of manage your ecamm windows This is something that Jeff was asking about. I think it was Jeff the just last week or a few days ago You can you can basically have keyboard maestro open The different windows that you want to have open at any given time So in ecamm If I click on the window menu Just move that out of the way so you can see in the Sorry about that zooming and zooming out in the window menu of ecamm You've got a list of all of those different utility windows. So the bandwidth statistics camera effects camera switcher and so on So I have a macro in keyboard maestro to To actually open those now you might think well, why don't I just open them from here? So if I click on, uh, let's say overlays I'll just hide it from here. Hopefully this will make sense more so to ecamm users But this one overlays if I click on overlays, it will open that window However, it doesn't actually close it if I click it again So it's not a toggle to toggle it on and off as you get in some applications So it's kind of like show and hide window, isn't it? But in here it isn't it just literally closes it However, and there is a button in here which is Hide all utility windows. So just there or a menu item So if I click on that one and I click hide all utility windows You'll see that all of those different utility windows will close So I've just opened the chat back up again. So what I wanted to do was in keyboard maestro when I am using the When I'm using ecamm I'm either using it for recording videos in which case I want to have certain Certain utility windows open for doing that I tend to have more utility windows open when I'm recording just because it's lightly that I'm going to be adjusting things like Screen sharing areas or it may be overlays and things like that that I'm adding in Um, I also have more open when I'm streaming because I've got the chat window open As you saw just in front of me the bandwidth statistics as well off to another side So I want to have different windows open But then if I'm doing something like a zoom call where I'm just using the virtual camera from ecamm into zoom Then likely I will not have the the same number of windows open So what I did was I created in a keyboard maestro just to move a few things back around now In keyboard maestro. I created a series of small macros that basically just open and close the windows I want And this sort of demonstrates the the ability to do these little sub routines So if I come into here and uh, where is it now? Uh, just see which one it's in it's not that one. That's just a little demo one It's actually ecamm, isn't it? Uh There we go. This is when I demoed it before in fact So the what I've done is I've got basically these the kind of like the base windows that I want open in ecamm I either ones that I'd have open all the time for recording or live streaming Um, so here the first thing it does is it actually hides all the utility windows because I can't toggle windows on and off But I can get rid of them all and then just show the ones that I want So the first thing it does is it uses that option that I talked about previously, which is Select a menu in the menu of a Particular app So this happens to go to the ecamm live menu and then it goes into the window window sub menu And then from there it just hides all utility windows. So this first step basically shuts down all the windows in ecamm But then this one then opens up the camera effects window the overlays window The scenes window sound effects sound levels and the camera switcher So that's what that thing does and if I go back to here a second I'll just show you what this looks like. Um, I've moved my camera off the uh the screen But if I basically press this macro when I I'm sharing my entire screen with you If I trigger this this macro now whoops sharing the wrong one Uh, where is it not allowing me to share that one just a second Do this one instead Sharing the wrong desktop in demo mode There we go. If I press that the trigger that macro, you'll see what happens It closes down the um the all the windows and then now it's just randomly In no particular order, but it's opening up all of those different windows Now they're not actually placed in the right place We use moon for that But that was just me pressing one button and then it opens up all of those uh those apps all of those windows I've then got another macro that I use which is very similar But all it does is it adds in the live streaming ones So if I trigger the live streaming macro, what that's going to do is that's going to open the chat and the bandwidth statistics The bandwidth statistics is on a different monitor So why is that useful though if I just stop sharing my screen now for a second? Um, well, that means that um as part of my setup for whatever it is i'm doing whether i'm recording Whether i'm on a zoom call and by the way the zoom one just basically hides all of those things. Um, so, um I've basically got these two setups then um, which is I've got one uh macro there for the base windows I call it and then the other one for the live streaming. So that's the bandwidth statistics on the chat And then here like for live streaming it basically executes both of those uh groups And if i'm just doing the uh videos then it will just execute just the uh base windows But then i'm calling those into other routines as well. So as part of my setup process for example for recording Um, it's also setting up all of my screens and things like that and organizing the the apps using moon But then it's just triggering this particular Macro as a sub routine within that if that is making sense So it's really good to be able to sort of chain these things together Let me just see if there is some other things that I was going to mention here because the problem I always have with keyboard maestro. I mentioned it earlier. Um is the The depth that you can go to with it It could it could be literally like a a year a year of study and not study everything That it can do so it's a case of not trying to understand everything it can do But just understand that it probably can do what you want it to do And then go and figure out those little things Um, I am making the automation masterclass though And it will be available as part of the academy. So I'll just sort of mention that briefly as well But the tape one tech academy gives you access to all of my courses. So the existing courses the ecam zoom The youtube beginner's guide is coming out tomorrow and the Discord beginner's guide is already out, but I've got this release schedule of all of these other different courses as well That that are coming in the pipeline And one of the ones that I got asked for Was keynote and so I have actually bumped that one up a little bit It was intended to be later on in the schedule, but I've sort of moved it up The next Course that's coming out is the stream deck masterclass that will be out in about 10 days something like that But then after that is the automation masterclass in in july. So if it is something you're interested in Either take a look at the academy at take one tech dot i o slash academy Or if you just want to be kept up to date in terms of when it's released You can always also just go to my my home page And then just enter your email address email address there And then you'll be kept up to date with any updates and things like that. But yes the the date for the that Productivity course though is basically in in july. So sometimes in july is when I'll be releasing that and It is the latest later one out of all of them And I'll be totally honest It's because of this whole issue that I have with trying to understand like which bits do I include which bits Don't I include but it will be a lot more structured. I always have difficulty. I've talked about it At length several times on live streams and in videos But I always just feel like as we've done today I've been going 50 minutes and I've just scratched the surface of a couple of little things that you can do with keyboard maestro But hopefully it's sort of given you an idea of the kinds of things That you might be able to do but let's have a look at some other macros just to give you A better idea of the things that it can do So you can do things with images for example So another thing I had it doing was when an image gets dropped in a certain folder. I want it to resize the image You can have it drop Even add things to the image. So like watermarks and stuff like that is something you can have it do Another one actually which is interesting is Interesting it's all relative, isn't it? It's interesting to me. You've got this one here deactivate macro group Now that's one that I used As well as the stream deck pedals which I've mentioned at the beginning Before that I had some generic pedals which were basically just they plug in over usb and they're essentially just a little Pedal with a switch that simulates a keystroke and it just happened to simulate the a b and c keystroke so with keyboard maestro What you can do is I had this series of different pedals so pedal one two and three And it's looking for a when I talked about you can have a Looking for a trigger the trigger can be a keystroke But you can also specify the device that the keystroke is coming from so here I had my pedal one two and three And then it's looking for the keystroke from this particular device And it was looking for the keystroke a and then this one was looking for b and this one was looking for c But coming from that device So it meant that if I pressed a b and c on my key my actual keyboard It didn't trigger the macro and likewise if I pressed the pedal as it didn't start typing on the screen or anything because I was capturing that here And then it did different things. So In here I had it use this one was for Giving presentations so pedal one two and three was doing this was doing these different things But what I wanted to be able to do Oh, sorry. Thank you a voice from the from the ether there. I was not showing what What I was supposed to be showing. Thank you very much the benefits of having discord where they can Just whisper in my ear Thanks, peter so yeah, here we go the the This was the this macro group for these these pedals And yeah, so I've got pedal one two and three and it was looking for a keystroke from From that particular device. So here a b and c and then it was basically performing these actions So I was using it this as I say was before I got the stream that pedal This I was using to switch scenes in ecamp. So it was working exactly like that But what I did then was because I had different things that I wanted to do with the three pedals I wanted to be able to switch between You know one use case and another use case. So here you can see on the left hand side I've got these different pedals. So For live streaming for recording for using with a teleprompter for zoom And another couple down there as well. So then what I did was I created this other group of macros called pedal switch and basically this was to activate a specific group and what you'll notice is These groups here some of them are blue and some of them are light blue And the light blue ones mean that basically it's not active So if I look here, you can see that this Macro group is enabled whereas if I go to one of these ones that is grayed out Then you'll see that it is not enabled And obviously if I've got macros associated with this this pedal device Then I didn't want to have them all active at once because then it would get confused by you know What was supposed to be happening? However with this pedal switch here macro Basically what that did was it just activated it deactivated all of those Those other ones and only activated in this case the the live stream grouping So that's how I was able to in the same way that in the with the stream deck pedal You can kind of switch between different profiles on the stream deck This is how I was basically simulating that With just a macro to switch between those different groupings In terms of triggering macros So I've mentioned that you can trigger them with with keystrokes and All of those other different things, but you can also trigger them from The stream deck and this the plugin that I use for it Is not actually the built-in stream deck keyboard maestro plugin Because there is a keyboard maestro plugin which is here. So if you go to the This the store It's called the stream deck store, but I don't think there's anything in there that's you actually pay for it It's still all free at the moment click on plugins and then up at the top. You just search for keyboard maestro And then you can see keyboard maestro is there But the one I use is actually a third party one, which is called km link And the reason I like that one is because I just come out of here the keyboard maestro will will appear in the automation section And the km link actually appears in custom. So if you're wondering where it is, it's just literally one button for each of those But it's not It doesn't have its own grouping. It just comes in the one of these two sections So what I like about km link is if you drag and drop that Then you can basically just select a macro So it'll pull up a list of all of your different macros and basically you just choose the one you want And then when you press the button it will perform that macro. So I Probably now over 50 of my macros and keyboard maestro are stream deck triggered So, uh, it's a great way to to trigger them that way Um, the keyboard maestro one though is quite interesting if I drop the keyboard maestro macro on here And this can actually work the opposite way. So let me try and just bring keyboard maestro up into here for a second Um And I'm going to move this just over here to this second slot. So this is telling you Where this button is so it's in a row two column one. So one two row two and then the first column Uh, this is something that I have I'm still not sure it's one of those things that I've got it in my head now as a potential to use it But I haven't figured out where I'm going to use it or how I'll just create another little test macro here You'll see where I'm going with this And now if I click on new action The way the stream deck plugin for keyboard maestro works is if I type in stream deck here You can have it do things where keyboard maestro is basically going to be controlling your stream deck So you can have it set an image on the stream deck button Change the title show an alert or show the little okay message So if I click on set image and I'll drag that there Um, and then I want to uh, choose the row and column. So if you remember it was row two column one Whoops mistype And so it's going to look on the stream deck for that button Um, then if I click on to this macro, so if I go to uh Uh, this macro's icon, so it's going to put that icon there You can always drag and drop a new icon onto the the macro, but if I run this now You'll see how it's just changed the button on the stream deck So thinking about how you might want to use this, um, if you have certain things that uh, as you're, you know Streaming or working or whatever you want to have certain items displayed on the screen Of your stream deck, uh, you could use this for you know notifications and things like that. You can have it change the title So if I change title here Drag that one in and drop it in Uh Uh row two If I run that one now You can see now it's just added in the uh the the title there that we put in so As part of um, some other workflow, you could be actually having uh keyboard maestro Display things on your stream deck, which I thought was pretty cool I don't know how I would use it right now to be honest Uh, but it's just an interesting one to to be aware of but k m link though is the best one to actually just trigger these shortcuts with Um That's a great idea, bicky. I'm just realizing I've not checked in and now bicky's saying I should set up a button when you go live to put discord in streamer mode It's great. Uh, great idea. Um, let me just see what other things I have missed here Um going back a little bit further Um, so uh, yeah, just to um, just catch catching up with the comments I'll just check in on some of these. Um, so do you have to have an ecum subscription for that? So presumably um, that is related to the the camera switching Um, just one second my uh Ecum just seems to it's uh spinning spinning its wheels a little bit Well, I've lost a lot lost my place now Um Oh great. Thanks, Alex. That's easy to remember Close to mine. Um, so the camera switching. Um, I'm doing with ecum live. Yes So you do need a Subscription to ecum to be able to use ecum and then use the the stream deck plugin. However, um other Streaming software has the camera switcher ability And even in zoom even the free plugin for zoom if you're just using zoom There is a plug in there for zoom that allows you to just sort of switch between cameras So you can just sort of cycle through them. Um, so although I'm using ecum and it's got a great plugin same with obs which is a free Um, sort of live production software similar functionality to ecum Um, the ecum's more user friendly in my opinion, but yeah, that has a plugin as well Um, so that you'll be able to do the the camera switching Um ecum is Mac only as well. I'm afraid um equivalent on pc is v mix, which is uh, a great Yeah, it has a great stream deck plugin. Yeah v mix is great and um, and and also as I say obs is cross platform and that one is Uh, that one is also available For v mix is a good option on the pc um How many of um, how many copies of keyboard maestro for How many copies of stream deck? I'm not sure I quite understand that one. Uh, the keyboard maestro has a plugin with one One action that you can just trigger all your keyboard maestro things. I don't know if I'm I'm sure I'm missing the uh the point of that Do you need multiple? Keyboard maestro for multiple stream decks. Oh, I see what you mean I think now you don't so if you've got multiple stream decks, um, then uh, then yeah, you can just assign The buttons to you know on each individual stream deck can can control everything. So, uh, yeah, you can have uh You can have as many stream decks as you want and they will still control You know a single instance all all stream deck is essentially is Yeah, a programmable series of buttons and whether you've got one device with one button or you've got 10 devices with uh, you know 320 buttons all together Then it's all the all the same. So it all goes through the stream deck software So the applications are basically only going to see it as one Uh, sort of control it effectively uh in in short Um Can keyboard maestro close one tab in a browser? Um, technically yes, but you would need to be specific about what it is closing. So if I Browse it or tab Let's see It's not something I've done, but um Let's see close tab I'll find this Um Yeah, you can do a new tab now. What the the way to do that actually thinking about it would be in the safari menu in window, then you can Close the tab from there So Um in uh your safari menu if I go to to this I'm in safari and I've just gone to the drop down So there is this thing here closed tab. Uh, so You you would be able to do it if you basically use keyboard maestro to switch to the tab that you wanted And then have it activate this. I don't think there is a specific closed tab in uh in keyboard maestro That closes, you know a specific name tab. Um Let me just double check on that though Uh select tab Yeah, I don't think there's a specific one to close a specific tab, but if I was going to do that That's how I'd do it. I would I would use uh crow. I would use keyboard maestro to switch to that tab And then I would use keyboard maestro to activate the menu command in safari, which is that thing we've already looked at Which is to go and activate something from the menu and it would be the menu item Close current tab. So that is how I would uh how I would approach that one It's also got a keyboard shortcut of command w. So you could also have You could also have keyboard maestro activate that keyboard shortcut I prefer always to use the the menu just because then You're never going to get any potential conflict with another keyboard shortcut or if the the app isn't open It's always going to be doing the exact thing you want it to do in the app that you want it to do Um Can you automate your lights with uh maestro actions as well? You can and that in fact so my my lights are um Nan light Now nan lights are They don't have a built-in mac app Let me put this somewhere where I can show it to you They don't have a built-in mac app. But what they do have is a mobile app and so this is the uh, this is the the The mobile app running on the mac. So as of month monterey was it I think or I think it was earlier than venture I think in monterey you can run um ios apps some ios apps on your mac So I have my my nan light here my nan light app and basically if I uh Toggle these off. I can turn my lights off with these buttons here So I could go ahead and turn all my studio lights off. They're going to the witness protection look So I can control that with this. So what I did was I created a keyboard maestro shortcut if I look at this Um, and I'll show you what the the macro looks like. So this is my nan light keep um uh keyboard maestro Uh shortcut. So what it does is it activates nan link, which is the app It waits for half a second for it to open up It then moves to a specific point. So I'm not using a found image But I'm having it move to a specific point on the uh the screen relative to the the top And the left hand side And then it's clicking and it's clicking on various different things to basically Go and click on these actually I use um profiles in here not profiles are scenes in the nan link app So I can basically have it switch between either this background or you know a different one. Um, so That is how I use keyboard maestro to control my apps. Now that is very my lights I should say that is very specific to my my nan lights. Um, but nevertheless, that is that is how I'm doing that Um Do your icon packs come with uh keyboard maestro macros they do indeed. Yes. So um the uh The stream deck Uh icon packs have the stream deck icons themselves as images They also have the stream deck profile. So you import the stream deck profile and it's already sort of pre Coded with the link to keyboard maestro. And then it also has the keyboard maestro Um macros that you can then import and interestingly, uh, you've just reminded me as well This was something that jeff was asking about just in the discord earlier. Um, if you are Wanting to sort of import keyboard maestro macros or export them. You can do that And just by going to any one of these groups or my windows have been moved around There we go If I right click on this group here, it's only got one thing in it But I could go to here and go to export macro group. Um, and then If I want to import that or in the case of my my icon packs when you download them, um, there is the the um keyboard maestro macro group And you just go up to the keyboard maestro keyboard maestro menu at the top And then from in there you can go to File Import and then go to this import macro safely and it'll basically just Import them safely imports them and then they're just the group is toggled off to by default So you can check what's in the macro, uh, which is always a wise idea Even though you can you can trust my macros, but still it's a wise habit to get into So you can click on import safely and that will just import the the macro group into your keyboard maestro and then you'll have the All of the all of the macros in there Um, and so in terms of the the actual step to do that First step would be import the macros into keyboard maestro. Uh, the second step would be to actually make sure you've got the km link Um, uh plugin for stream deck And then the third would be to import the stream deck profile So then it's going to be able to first of all talk to keyboard maestro and all of the macros will be in there So that would be the the process for from that point of view Um Uh, I know that you have biggie saying he loves stream deck. I know you do you've you've got a very envious setup A great setup with your why does that keep going on and off with your setup? I did really enjoy seeing your photo I've tried to somewhat emulate it in terms of adding my second stream deck in but yeah, I love your setup Hey, katie. Great to see you here Thank you for stopping by um How does that work with multiple profiles on multiple decks? Um That's interesting actually i'm assuming that that means the uh keyboard maestro button Uh, I wonder if it's just it's interesting that is I wonder if it's just looking for Um, because it's not something i've played with if that's the one you're talking about the one that puts the button on puts the Images on the stream deck button The thing we just tested I wonder if it just looks for the Let's get it back up. Where is it gone? Uh, where did I put it? Demo group is in there. Let's try it again I'm going to try this again. So I think the question is How does it work if we use this stream deck macro? Uh To control stream deck And put something on the button so Stream deck. I wonder if it is the active one or not. Let's have a look Uh, so let's just say set desktop image set button image What I'll do is I'll move it so that I've got basically the exact same button So this button here or let me just do a different one. Where is it stream deck? Do a bit of a live test Uh Keyboard maestro, I'm going to put this somewhere where I've got a free space on my other one So this is virtual row four column six So I'll put this virtual row four Column six And then what I'm going to do is I'm going to copy this macro Uh, sorry this action and I'm going to switch to my other stream deck. I'm going to put it in exactly the same place And now let's see what happens on my stream decks when I just run the keyboard maestro macro from down here It's done it on both of them. So the answer bicky is if you've got um If you've got the uh the button on just one stream deck It will do it on just that one. But as you can see on my uh my stream decks, hopefully That button there is the one that I've just uh changed and it did it on both of the stream decks because It and it will only do it by the way if you've got the actual stream deck button Let me uh backtrack It won't replace just any button on your stream deck. It'll only do it if you've actually got the uh keyboard maestro Button in place in that square. So if I didn't have that there if I hadn't got that keyboard maestro button there Um, then the macro is not going to change it. So if I run the macro again, it's not going to change anything in there Um, because uh, it hasn't got that button. So, um So you wouldn't be able to then have To uh to stream decks with like, you know 64 buttons And then have keyboard maestro changing all of those because there would be by definition duplication. Um, so yeah, that is, um Uh, that is a limitation There isn't a way in the uh keyboard maestro to select a specific stream deck. But uh, yeah, I'm guessing I'm guessing that would be Yeah, that would be all right I don't intend to have it updating 64 buttons. So um, so yeah, and and note this as well. Um, in case it wasn't clear When you are updating that it's literally only acting as like a notification thing. You can't also have that button Be doing some other regular action because it's just replacing the image Um So you don't think you can uh I don't think I can emotionally handle switching from obs and pc to mac and ecamp or maybe it won't be that bad I fear it will be exhausting uh Do you know what? I actually liken switching to ecamp from obs As the same as switching from pc to mac which is I used a pc for years And sort of grew up on pc and always felt like You know, I knew it inside and out and it was the way to do things And it was only when I got on mac when was it 16 17 years ago And it was around the time of vista if you went through the vista experience That I I switched to mac and I just couldn't believe how How much more logical things seemed on the mac than they did on the pc So I was coming from a pc side Thought everything was all fine and then it was like, oh, there's a there's a much better and simpler way of doing this All um, and it's it was kind of the same experience I had when I was using obs to be honest I went through the You know trying to do everything that I always wanted to do with obs And then just happened to see doc rock on mac break weekly Uh podcast that watch and uh, he just sort of mentioned it and I was having some particular issue with obs at the time And I thought oh, just give this a go and I couldn't believe how much more Intuitive to my mind it was and I appreciate everyone sort of thinks differently So it's not going to be the same for everyone Obviously, um, but for me, I found it actually Um apart from it like the initial thing of it's something different You've got to learn something different, uh, which I enjoy doing anyway But apart from the the initial hurdle of getting over some, you know, it being a different It was all much more logical. So Um, yeah, I'm not uh, not saying you should but it's it's certainly not as bad as you think in terms of getting over a Yeah, uh getting over any hurdle or anything like that um So the uh, the nan lights now unfortunately got back to the lighting. No, they don't hook up with uh home kit So um, so no, they've got their own sort of third party app Coming back to lighting because that's how I got onto that. Thank you for the reminder as well Somebody was asking about lighting if you use phillips hue lights, um, then there's a phillips hue plugin for stream deck. You can Control that all from there if you use, um, uh Obviously algato lights. They're made by the same people who make the stream deck and there's another whole thing which is what's it called now? There's a whole lighting Set up. I forget the name of the plugin now um, and you can do all sorts of funky stuff with that which is, um Light for third party lights. I'm forgetting what it is now, but there's a number of different lighting control apps in there Hey rich great. See you. Um, I'm not sure what the spooky refers to But I've lost the uh, I've lost the thread Um Oh, it's oh yeah controlling aperture lights with Uh, oh, thanks. Uh, I'm glad you I'm glad you liked the thing and yeah, but keyboard maestro Once you've once you've got it you'll find loads of uses for it Um Well, no, I can't think of a good one For changing the the tiles and icons on stream deck buttons just yet But it's one of those things that once I know that the uh, the possibility is there that, um Yeah, I'll when something pops up. I'll just I'll just know that that's the the use for it Um, anyway, uh, let's uh move on because I did have some other apps that wanted to cover and as as you can see I've just scratched the surface of basically we've talked about Uh, what three different macros we've talked about the click-on found image clicking on something in a menu item and, uh One other sending a keystroke to a thing So we've only talked about three different macros that you know Different actions that you can do with keyboard maestro and there are so many more than that I do just want to touch on these other apps that I talked about that, um Um Yeah, that that that I use with keyboard maestro. So I'm just missing this Comment here from melvin any suggestions on integrating automation into your workflow Um, so you stop touching your keyboard Um Well, yeah, I mean it's It is replicating those I think if that's the way you are going with this It is thinking about these things that uh, you uh, you have sort of automated Where you can press a stream that button and it sort of eliminates you having to do the the stuff for you But speaking of the keyboard the next one would be Um, uh, what's it called text expander? So many of them Text expander is a great one for just having little snippets of text that you type that then expand into much bigger, um Bodies of text. So I use it all the time for things like, um proposals quotations, um Things like that maybe just even small things small things like URLs email addresses and so on So let me just bring text expander up and I'll just give you a quick demo of what this does Date strings as well. It's really good at I'm just going to bring up. I did a whole video on keyboard maestro probably over a year ago now So I've still actually got the demo set of snippets for that So I will just mention those again because conscious of time and as I say all of these I could do hours on all of these different apps Um, and in fact, that's what the the automation masterclass will be to be honest But here you've got text expander and you can create a little snippet in here That's if I create a new snippet. I could say Hello, how are you? So that is what I want it to say and you could also Make this as longer short as you want So maybe I want to There we go say I want to type out this You can give it a label. So maybe hello, how are you and then we can give it an abbreviation So I might just type hello comma comma I actually use the comma comma as the thing to sort of trigger it Quite a lot because it's something that I'm never normally going to type Um, so it will be some short little word and then I'll use that double comma afterwards as just a way to trigger it Uh, so if I come into here now if I was to just type in Hello comma comma If I type hello, right, it's a very tricky word to spell that is Hello comma comma you'll see that that's expanded that text out to all of all of that um, and so It's just great for expanding things out like email addresses If you're something you type all the time like your email address or a url I've got a whole series of ones for affiliate links. So affiliate links for products that I might mention I've got to add in a few more there in actual fact, but um And various other different things. Um, you can group these snippets together So I have them grouped by different sort of business interests that I've got down on this side in different groupings Um mistyped words. I often find um that like when I'm typing something Especially if it's something that's capitalized. I will inadvertently Capitalize the second letter as well. So, uh, like for example If I type youtube really fast Uh It's usually the second one or something like that So there you go. I've because I've held the shift down and I'm typing too quickly and not released it That is basically not looking right. So it's got all the wrong characters If you find yourself doing those things, uh, regularly, uh, then what you can do is just come in here Type in the abbreviation being the way that you misspell it, but then actually just correct the spelling in here um Like that. Uh, and so then if I was to, uh type and misspell YouTube again in that way that I just did capital y o u t u b e Um, then it would if I've got the right trigger. I've just uh, I've misspelled my misspelling Let me try that again. You'll get the idea though I tell you what it is. It's auto correcting for me. That's what it is The the mac is auto correcting it bad example, but you get the idea though. It can create it can correct Commonly misspelled words that you misspell. Let's try this once again just to prove the point There we go. So it's corrected my, uh, miscapitalization Uh, it's really great though for adding in other information. Uh, so for example my, uh, my q and a Um, when I do my weekly q and a as part of my academy of this is one I just set up yesterday Um, I basically do two sessions. So for me, they're Wednesday morning at 5 a.m. And Wednesday afternoon at 5 a.m So this is for members of my take one tech academy in the premium level or above So we have a weekly q and a but I want to be able to label the file. So if I just type, uh q a two Then it gives me the date stamp of this thing that I want to the file So, uh, it puts the date in reverse order. So there's the year the month the day q and a session two if I type just q a one Then it expands that to be that and it means that I've always got a unique Date stamp there and the way that I did that was You can add different parameters into a keyboard maestro as well So, uh, we've typed in youtube there, but you can also come here and add date things so I can add in the year uh hyphen Maybe the uh the month then the day And you can see the different ways it can be formatted. It could literally be the actual day name Uh, and I'm just going to change this to uh Just a little testing there. Um, so then if I was to type this You can see that that's basically written out this format. So it says youtube the year The month the day and then it's written the day Obviously you can see I could have done with putting spaces and hyphens and stuff like that in there But you can just go in and format that but it's a way that you can bring those things in I also use it for my file naming. So I want a completely unique string To the starts of files. So in that case, I have actually day month day, sorry year month day And then I also add in the the hours Minutes and seconds and that gives me but you know, I completely unique Date stamp then that I use it for many things You can also have it pop up with options for you. So, um, and you can do calendar maths. So like add days so you could say, you know, put in a date Five days from now. So maybe you're telling you know sending out a proposal or something and saying this is valid until You know, whenever it is and then it would just automatically put 30 days in the future or whatever That's a way that you might want to do that um, you've also got, uh um, you can simulate pressing Keystrokes in here as well. Um, so one of them would be for uh here I've got one here that was If you wanted to send some information in a clipboard from a clipboard message, you can have it paste that in for example So this was an example that I did where Let's say you want to send an email to somebody and they sent your email address and you're going to follow up with some information Then you could start by basically, um hitting the the clipboard So you could open up your mail put your cursor into the, you know, the two field Then it's going to paste in the contents of the clipboard, which was their email address It's going to press tab twice. So that goes from the two address Down to the subject Then here is the company info you requested. So that's going to go in the subject line Then it's going to press tab and then it says hi and this one here is actually a pop-up field Um, so that is going to basically pop up on screen where you can then type something in So this one if I show you what this actually looks like in practice Um, if I just type in x What it's done, then is if this was in an email for email I've just done it in a text file if it was in an email, um, it would have put in their email address put in that as the, um, the The subject and then it's prompting me for the name I'll send you myself an email and if I click on enter now It's put in all of that text So you can use it to automate that process of even just sending emails now an actual fact what this does is When I use this I actually have a keyboard maestro macro that does the first step of opening up the email client and starting a new email and then it triggers this Text expander snippet to then go and do this well not this particular one But this these types of things so I have a whole series of them But that are for different emails that I want to send and things like that So using text expander with keyboard maestro Is a real sort of good combination because technically I could do all of this in keyboard maestro itself But because this is what this is the one thing that this is intended for it just does it really really well The other thing that you can do in uh keyboard with text expander, sorry Okay, my name's confused here is um you can also have it do things like these fillings So this is where you can put in a single line text field, which is that one that we've just looked at So that there is the name is a single line text field Um, but you can also have it give you a pop-up menu And so here you can just type in the name of the field uh, maybe it's Maybe it's email address Maybe you want to give somebody like a choice of or you want to choose which email address they should reply to Um, you know email one email two you can add in all of these different options Let's just put it in an example. So you'll see what this looks like And obviously you would be typing in actual email addresses here Click on okay So now if I run this one What it's done is it's given me the pop-up and now I can choose which one of those ones I want to to use out of that list And then click on okay And now it's actually I mean, it's a bit of a a bit of a bad example But you've seen the principle. Hopefully there it's inputted that thing that we just selected so It's a way for you to create a single text expander snippet That then like prompts you for some information before it actually goes and completes it And as I say it can be that sort of multi-choice thing there that we just looked at The pop-up mentioned menu Multi-line text field if you need to be able to paste in more stuff So yeah lots of different options in there as well And then you can add in tabs and different things like that as well So that is a text expander as I say it's um, uh, it's just one thing But it does it really well and being able to combine that using it with clipboard Content that you've copied those options that you have It works really well as a sort of an accompaniment to keyboard maestro or rather keyboard maestro is a great accompaniment to it So, uh, Robert is asking do the icon packs come with setup instructions? They do actually because each one of them was came out of a youtube video that I created So there's a video with each one that that explains Actually the video that comes with each one explains how to do it yourself as well But then the key the the icon packs are there as you know if you want to save yourself the The hour or whatever it's going to take there to set it all up Then that's what the keyboard the the things are there for and the link to the video is in with the on the the checkout page Or the let me just show you it's probably easier, isn't it? To answer your question Robert Are we here? So let me go to the store. So if I go to this one here, this is a youtube youtube player icon pack And I click on this Then you will see that Um, it's got the the icon pack and then when you download the icon pack You will have a link in there to the the youtube video that is associated with it um, and it that and that shows you how to how to set it all up, but um Yeah, it sort of walks you through the the process um Can uh, can text expander be used to save files that you normally repeat Um, it's text expander doesn't do any saving of files You could link that in with keyboard maestro and have uh, Have the you know some text expansion and then saving files that way all text expander does is literally just Uh, just expand the text So it puts in the the text wherever you're you're using it for uh, wherever you're you're doing it So no it didn't actually do the saving itself Um I'm glad I'm glad you like the channel. Thank you very much and um, yeah the The stream deck I can't stress enough what an amazing productivity to all the stream deck is and I I've just I'm so pleased that I started doing my video content and live streaming because that's what allowed me to discover the stream deck and it actually for me um, it gave um keyboard maestro a new lease of life for me as well. I've been using keyboard maestro for Uh, I guess about 16 years or Almost as long as I've been using the mac maybe maybe 14 or 15 years perhaps. Um, but um, yeah having Keyboard shortcuts as triggers, which is what keyboard maestro, you know originated from Um, the ability to really quickly create them now and have them associated with stream deck somehow makes it a lot more more accessible and There isn't that thing of having to you know, remember the new keyboard shortcuts as much because you've got a dedicated button for it So, uh, yeah, it's a great great pairing and and uh, and he comes awesome, too As you've probably gathered him a bit of a fan boy um So the oh talking about switching to mac. Yeah, there's a slightly different keyboard characters and stuff like that, but You soon get to soon get used to it. It's funny. Actually above my, uh, my wife is just trading and Is on a pc and so I always find when I go I have to do anything on that on her computer I'm always sort of lost in the in the reverse way So like all the all the things that I've sort of forgotten about pc haven't haven't necessarily come come floating back um I'll see what you mean Can text expender be used to save files that you normally repeat like when you go to save its file name? That is yeah, so that is exactly how I um, I use it malvin in fact um that one that I just that little example that I just give gave of the uh, the um The thing from like the q and a file name. Um, so it does work Yeah, when you are editing a file name you can have it uh paste in there So it works anywhere where you type it will expand the text So that could be editing a file name or when you go to save files Yeah, totally it would sorry. I missed misunderstood the original question there But yeah, it totally does that and I use it like that all the time for uh date strings as well So all of my files tend to have I can show you All of my files tend to have a date string at the beginning. Um, and I just have uh ddd And it automatically puts in uh, that's always to just off the bottom there It automatically puts in a date string. So uh with the year the month and the day and a hyphen so The majority of my files actually start with a date string. Um, or they've got a date string in them somewhere. Sometimes they start with I've uh, never mind. Sometimes they start with these. I've got all these little text codes So you'll notice that all of my things are sorted like this. So there's all these four digit codes that are um, basically sorting out the different, uh, use cases that I have on different things So I use a system of four letter codes and date strings to sort stuff out That's a whole nother That's a whole nother two hour stream So that is that that is keyboard maestro that uh, that is text expanded though the other one that I want to talk about which is uh Sort of the question that I prompted me to do this live stream as well Is about moon and I've talked about opening and closing different windows. Um, moon is the application that I use for positioning windows in my screen And I'll give you a quick demonstration of this because there's a number of ways that you can you can use moon Uh, so let me just move some of these comments out of the way Um, or actually that one will probably work. Well, that's an example Let me see if I'm gonna if will they share the correct screen with you Right, so you can see this, uh This screen here and I've got all these different windows in different, uh, different places Uh deliberately all messed up So moon is an application that sits in your menu bar. So it's up here somewhere. Where is it? Uh, it's maybe hiding in here. There it is that one And there are some, uh Settings up there in the menu bar, but there's also the moon preferences now. Let me just get the moon preferences up as well What moon does is a couple of things First of all, you can split your screen up into like a grid And then if I click on this little green icon at the top here Then instead of it maximizing the window what I can actually have it do now. It seems like is it not going to do it while i'm sharing That would be typical, wouldn't it? It's not going to do it while i'm sharing. Hang on a second. Let me come back out of that There it is. So when I clicked in that little box, you can see that i'm highlighting a part of the screen So I can choose where exactly I want to place this window now what it means is because I've got this grid It means I can create layouts of things on my screen That are Like here's uh hazel, which I'll come to you later if I click on that one You can make things sort of really neatly arranged on your screen. Let's put keyboard maestro over here So i'm just going to click in there and so because I've got this sort of grid pattern on my screen I can just easily lay things out so that they are in a in a sort of neat grid rather than having to manually You know drag the corner of the the window and put it, you know exactly where I want it So that's one thing that hazel does The other thing that hazel does though is you can set up predefined locations on the screen Um, and if I hold in here. Oh, thank you very much for the coffees. I do appreciate that Thank you very much much appreciated there. I think it just missed the the thing that popped up then but Thanks very much. It was I was in live demo mode. So it didn't come on the screen, but I do appreciate that. Thanks so much Let me come back to that here second. Um, so Where was I so the the other thing you can do though is you can save predefined positions on the screen So I've actually got some already set up. So if I click on this button, for example It's automatically going to put that in that top corner because that is a predefined position I've got I've got another one which is top center. I've got another one which is the top right. Whoops Now I'm accessing these from this little menu here But you can also assign keyboard shortcuts to these as well. So I've got keyboard shortcut, which is command option shift Uh control option shift Control option command to one and so on so I can use those keyboard shortcuts To basically move that thing around the screen Um, what I've done is I've also got those as stream deck buttons. Uh, you can't activate them uh from stream deck using the um The keyboard maestro menu command, but you can just have it trigger the keystroke in stream deck So there's a button there's a button in stream deck. Maybe I just need to quickly Show that just so that you can see where it is Uh, if I go to stream deck Then here we're in this plugin. Let me just get the this particular comment of that from before um, so in stream deck what I can do is if I go to Uh system and then hotkey So if I assign a hotkey, which was uh control option command one um, that would now trigger the thing to put the uh The window in that position. Hopefully this is making sense. Let me come back over here And I'll share this whole thing So now if I press that button on my stream deck that I've just created Whilst I've got this keyboard maestro window activated It's going to put it in that position So you can have effectively a a whole series of buttons on your stream deck Which are related to a particular position on your screen And then as you're working if you just want to put this window up there This other window over in another place as you're clicking through windows You can just press the stream deck button to throw it into that particular area of the screen So I use that all the time with a keyboard maestro with Moom, sorry for getting all the names confused too many productivity apps I use that all the time for organizing stuff But the other great one though with Moom is this idea of snapshots. So let's say that whenever I am live streaming I have all of these windows here Like this And I want to make sure that every time I live stream They're all in these different positions and this could be for whatever particular Work mode you happen to be in So what you can do then is you can go into Moom and then you've got this option here right click Save window layout as snapshot If I save that as a snapshot And then you can give it a keyboard shortcut as well and you can give it a name So I'll give it a name as Test as always I've got so many things called tests on my computer And then I'll just click on Updates or I don't need to update it actually because if nothing's changed Right, so what this does though is and bear in mind as I say you can give it a keyboard shortcut So now let's say I've I've just come into my computer I've opened up these windows Maybe they've been in a different place because I've been doing something else And I've got a different layout that I use for that What Moom does is if I come into the the Moom menu or hit the keyboard shortcut What you'll see is If I can get it up, where's it gone? There we go In here Moom and we should see down here. This is that test that I've just set up. So if I hit test It's going to move all of those windows And of course it doesn't oh, yeah, there we go. It's just a bit slow. That was weird It's going to move all those windows back into the position that they were in So that's the way that you can use Moom then to Have your setup correct for you whenever you are, you know in a particular work mode So I talked before about, you know, I've got different windows open for live streaming versus recording versus zoom Obviously different stuff when I'm working on other stuff the example of when I upload videos to youtube I've not done that for a while actually I've been live streaming and creating course content. But that workflow though of doing that is Yeah, having the Having Moom just put everything where it needs to be. I use keyboard maestro to open up apps So I told you at the beginning about how you can just open apps with with Streamdeck itself But I tend to just do it all with keyboard maestro because it's doing everything altogether and it's controlling it all from that macro. So It might be in ecamm live, for example Switching profile in ecamm from my recording profile. I've got another one for, you know, course content Maybe it's a different profile for for that So keyboard maestro would actually switch my ecamm profile It would open up all the different apps that I need to have open for whatever it is. I'm doing It would then trigger Moom to put all of the things in the place that I need them to be in the on the screen for that particular You know mode of work or whatever you want to call it It's a really really powerful app Now jeff was saying just before and I wanted to just have a quick look. This might be something for me to do after But there is a couple of settings in Moom that that you need to be aware of and I'm not sure if this is Specifically jeff's issue, but we'll take a little look if I come into the Moom settings again And I'll just share this screen once I've opened it up In fact, let's put it over here And I'll share this screen instead Um, so this is um, I've in Moom is in the the the the menu bar, but then you open up the Moom preferences There's a couple of options here So launch automatically at login. So I have it doing that because I just want it to always be open Show preferences on launch. I don't do that because I don't need to see the preferences all the time Run as menu bar item Or standard would be in the dock or faceless as in it's just working in the background I have it in the menu bar just because I want to be able to access things like this from the menu bar Uh, next along is mouse Um pop up controls when hovering over a zoom button Um, that specifically is this thing of when you hover over the uh, it's not going to work on that one Let me bring up a different window. Uh, when you hover over this window here, which is called the zoom window Um In order to get those things to pop up, um, you just need to make sure that this one is checked So in the mouse section, uh pop up controls when hovering over a zoom button Uh, that's the one to to have selected there and then you've got the option of show moon controls or standard ios standard os zoom button menu So you need to just make sure that yet you've got That one selected and also show moon controls And then when you hover over this little button here the little green button This is what gives you access to these are shortcuts basically to snap to the left to the right to the top to the bottom or full screen Here is where you can also access all of your preset locations And then this one here is where you can Basically click and sort of select exactly where on the screen you want that window to to go to Then enable full screen enable access to custom controls show on hover So the custom controls was those ones i've just mentioned Bring moomed windows to the front automatically It makes sense if i'm doing anything where i'm arranging stuff with moon I do want it to be at the front And then you've got a keyboard So you've got a keyboard Control hotkey I don't have a global hotkey for moon because I have hotkeys for all of the things that I want it to do So I haven't used that But then you can come into oh and just one other incidentally Where I click on here and I mentioned that it's kind of like the the screens split into a grid Well the grid size is dictated here So enable the grid with I've got it split into 12 by 12 I've got a quite a large monitor it's like 43 inches So having it split up into so many different pieces Makes sense to me But if you've got a smaller monitor then it might just be like a even just a you know a two by three grid or something If you only want those few little places to put stuff in but that's why I've got quite a lot of different Divisions on it But then you've got custom and this is where you can Basically set keyboard shortcuts for all of your different things So you can see here a few of the different arrangements that I have On my my large monitor. I want to be able to have something down the center Incidentally, I was talking to someone about this in the academy the other day One of the things I love about having a regular aspect ratio and just to show what it looks like So this monitor here is 43 inch, but it's it's still a 16 by 9 And it's 4k, but what that means is I'm not a fan of the ultra-wide monitors because okay, it's really wide But then what happens if you want to see something? It's like a document Um, so I like the fact that this is a regular aspect ratio monitor Because it means that sometimes I might have a big document down the side And then a few like small windows like over here Or I might have you know one big wide excel file along the bottom And then some smaller reference material up along the the top And so that's what basically I've done then with these divisions I've basically got different areas of the screen that I can put things Using these shortcuts and you can see kind of how I've split it up Depending on what it is I'm doing But then down below I've also got um or wherever wherever they are Maybe I'll put the top I've got all the different snapshots and things like that. So One for zoom new live stream to um, so on So that is these are different layouts that I've got and they've all got a keyboard shortcut associated with them That then is triggered by the the stream deck So um, yeah, I absolutely love them. I hope we'll have to see if that has solved Jeff's issue though In terms of the the thing not appearing, but if yeah, if it's not if you are not seeing the Little control here, which is a really useful one then yeah Just to reiterate that is to check in here that you've got pop-up controls on I don't have this snap to edges and corners because I've just got all my predefined positions Um, so that is that is moon that is another one then that I use You know in conjunction with keyboard maestro and I as part of my keyboard maestro macros I'll trigger the moon shortcut as well so that it opens everything does everything needs to do And then puts everything where it needs to be The final one that I mentioned is that can also do things that um keyboard maestro can do um is called hazel And hazel is for managing Files within folders and in fact the way that it works is You set a folder that you want it to watch and then it performs various actions based on that folder So for example here And you can split these down into groups as well um When I record my podcast I use orphonic, which is a thing that basically Sorts our audio issues. It runs through the audio and cleans it all up and adjust levels and things like that So what I have is a couple of things here Um this one and just to sort of explain the process. It's got this similar sort of Flow to keyboard maestro in terms of you've got your groups In this case, they're called folders You've then got your macros, which in this case are called rules And then you've got the actions that are going to be performed on it So if I've got here this this folder that i'm looking at and the folder here is specifically The folder on your computer. So that's how things are grouped they're grouped by the actual folder that these actions are performing on So here I've got one called initial edit. I could add a new Rule here and you can say basically it's a bit like keyboard maestro as well If any of the following conditions are met. So you could say like if the name is Whatever or maybe if the name starts with or does not contain If the name matches something Then do the following thing So this is a bit like the trigger part of keyboard maestro and these are the actions But the actions are all basically file and folder related So you might want to rename something you might want to move it add tags to it archive it Import it into music or photos Run a shortcut run apple script and so on and so You can have it though that if I look at the triggers again Maybe you can look for source url for example So one that I have is every time I download something from adobe stock If I'm on the adobe website and I download the whatever is the stock art or whatever It goes to my downloads folder. Well, I have a Hazel action That looks at the downloads folder and the condition is if the source url or address Contains adobe Then move it to my adobe stock folder So it means that I don't have to go and select the folder I want to download to I just click it and it goes to downloads But then it will move it from there to my adobe stock folder Another one is I use my desktop on my computer like a desktop Hence the name So what it means is that when I'm working during the day, I'll often just throw stuff up on the desktop That I'm using But then I want the desktop to be cleared away at the end of the day And so hazel does that for me and files things where they need to be And I also use it for screenshots by by default A screenshot will go onto my desktop if I'm taking a screenshot. There's obviously some reason I want it So I want it to stay on my desktop for the day But then at the end of the day, I have it move into a screenshots folder But I don't just want this screenshots folder to sort of get completely overwhelmed and I'm blown up over the years. So At the end of two weeks, it looks for fault the One of the conditions you can have is the Where is it now the date created? So if I go to date created is Not in the last Two days Two days Then delete it. So I have it watching my Screenshots folder. So after it's moved stuff from the desktop at the end of the day It moves it into another little folder and that's just in case I do actually need to go back and get it You know the following day or a couple of days later, whatever But then if it's not used within a few days, then it removes it from there and permanently deletes it So there's things you can do in terms of that and by the way, you can stack all these up So you might want to say the name is so and so the Not uploaded in the last two days the sources come from wherever So you can stack all of these different things to make lots of different rules So one of them I have for orphonic just to come back to that example is Now let's just get rid of the changes on this one Um, basically when I save my podcast Um, and I do my initial edit of it Um, because I the the video pod the video podcast I have to sort of drop in a little add in the middle of it. Um, but then I'll export it And so when the file goes into the export it moves it to this dropbox folder called orphonic Now I've got orphonic setup. It's all done in the the cloud But then I have it watching a dropbox folder. So it watches this one So it then grabs that file that's just been moved to that dropbox folder Processes it in orphonic servers and then orphonic puts it into another dropbox folder which happens to be this one called Whatever the name of the folder is I can't just see the name orphonic results But actually what it puts in there is it puts the processed file It also puts a solo of the the guest track And it also does some other things So I have this series of actions happen as soon as the files get dropped in here It basically looks for the mp3 file, which is the the audio one and it sorts that and moves it into a particular folder The guest solo, uh, it takes that folder that, um File and it moves it somewhere else Uh the video file it moves that somewhere else And then finally this uh audio file it moves that somewhere else as well So this is my way of basically sorting these things out so that rather than just having orphonic dump in All of these files in one place, um I'm having that it dumped them in one place But then hazel is then sorting it so that I've got a folder then that is all of my movie files a folder That's all of my mp3 files, you know for the the mp4 for the video and so on And it is doing all the sorting This is where hazel is really great is for doing all of these kind of sorting things that you ordinarily would have to do manually or Potentially might not do and then end up having a headache with a load of unsorted files and folders in your computer So it's a really simple application in terms of that's all it does It just watches a folder and then performs actions. Um the thing to look for as well is The sorting that thing of having a time delay on it is really useful So the thing that I mentioned about sorting my adobe stock images, for example I don't want it to just do it automatically I like to be able to just click on my downloads folder and be able to get to anything that I've literally just downloaded But to have it then go and sort it, you know at the end of the day or within 48 hours or whatever So that's a really useful little little thing to have on there Let me just come back. I've just moved the chat out of the way a little bit so I might have missed Okie dokie Jeff's just saying bye-bye. It's uh middle of the night there. Thanks for stopping by the discord Jeff Let me come back to here though Um So let's have a look where we are Um just coming back to uh moon then melvin saying can moon move Non-window based items apps into place like the little stream deck pedal window That shows the pedal display It does move that one. Yes, um because it is still technically a window I just wanted to do a demo of that But as I mentioned at the beginning my stream deck pedals died So it means I haven't got that little window open, but it does move that one I'm fairly sure because although you might think it's not a window. It is technically a window So I think it does move it one thing that moon Um I don't think does do which only came to light just the other day talking to somebody in the academy as well um was um It can moon move it can move stuff over multiple desktops. So I've got Four screens and it will move stuff from one to the other But if you're someone who uses um, what's it called desktop spaces on the mac like where you can literally have You know, you can press the hotkey and it it moves over to a completely separate display Or if you use things full screen, maybe you have like, you know full screen of different apps then I don't think that moon will put stuff like on a on a screen that you Effectively can't see it's a bit like If you want to do screen sharing in zoom or in ecam and you want to share like one of those Other desktops, you know, like when you can press expose, you know show you all you just different Uh different desktops and you could have like one screen but with five different desktops I don't think that moon will place things on those other screens It's only what you can physically see is what I what I gather. Um, I don't use those myself I just add more displays But um, I understand that that is the the case. That's just one little caveat If you do use those sort of virtual screens, it's only going to manage stuff on the screen that you are actually on I think Um, thanks very much. I'm glad you like the the interviews. I've got to record another batch of those I'll they were supposed to be weekly, but I I recorded a batch of them. I've still got some more to release But um, yeah, just since since new yeah, I've been I shifted my focus a little bit So I've got to get back to that. I've got a list of of new New interviews to to get on so I'll be back to that shortly Um, thank you very much. I appreciate the the comment there. I'm glad you found it useful Um, and uh, thank you. Thank you very much much appreciated Yeah, as I say with all of this productivity stuff, though I do really feel like I'm barely scratching the surface and this is why it's taken so long I've been talking about making my productivity or automation productivity masterclass for Uh, over a year, but almost since I started the channel Incidentally, the channel was originally going to be more about like productivity apps and And uh, automation apps and then it just happened to be that I discovered ecam and stream deck as a way to make the content And then I fell in love with those and that's the the the channel then morphed into being more about the actual those tools than about the the apps themselves Um, I've been going for two hours now though, and I don't want to Keep everyone all day. I could literally talk about this For the rest of the day, but um, I will have to have to wrap it up But if anybody is interested in finding out more, um, then do feel for it. Ah, thank you very much Glenda has renewed your membership. I think that's automatic though is but thank you very much Glenda If you are if you're watching So Right on cue you can check out channel memberships just down below this video as well All of the auto renews are going through obviously, so thank you very much Pierre as well for your continued support And yeah, if you want to find out more about the courses then go to take one tech i o slash academy You can find out all the courses that you can get That's basically a subscription that gives you access to all of the courses that I create And also the weekly q and a's you can get in there as well So two options of time for a week for that But that's where you can just come in and ask any questions that you've got in a face-to-face Manor in actually in discord bit like a zoom call in there And that will give you access to all of the um all of the courses as they go forward as well I'll still be offering courses on a standalone basis as well Um, so so as soon as they're out feel free to check them out and you can go to my website Take one tech dot i o If you just want to keep be kept up to date with updates as soon as those new things come out Then you can just register to join to join the mailing list over there Thanks, uh, oh the cost of each app Uh, the cost of each app. Let me just figure that out because there are basically, uh, Just one second melvin. Thank you very much for reminding me Um, these are I talk about set up a lot on my channel as well Which is a great thing for giving access to a whole series of um useful Mac apps, but these are all kind of standalone and they're also not subscriptions I had somebody that was uh talking about subscriptions and how they yeah, they don't like the whole subscription model, but These are nearly all um Nearly all just a one-off payment. So let's have a look moom That's unbelievable. Moom is ten dollars I didn't even realize that I've been using it so long. Okay. I'm dropping the links in and I'm just looking moom is Ten dollars if that doesn't save you ten dollars within the first week of time of setting up your screen. I don't know I feel like I want to send them money now That's ridiculous ten dollars for moom. Okay, let's have a look at hazel. I think hazel is uh, Is it around fifty dollars or something? Oh, no, no, no not hazel. Keyboard maestro is around fifty dollars And let's have a look at noodle soft um Where is it here? So I could I could be showing you this as well. Couldn't I? Hazel is forty two dollars For the regular family pack or hazel five upgrade if you're upgrading from a previous version So forty two dollars essentially let's stick to the base prices Uh keyboard maestro is uh, let's go to here Keyboard maestro This is what is it? Uh, thirty six dollars or thirty eight plus tax depending on where you are. So about forty dollars That's another one. I mean it's that with so many Businesses having a subscription model these days um, yeah, this is just a flat fee and I'm kind of staggered to be honest by the value that I've had out of it. I'm I'm actually feeling guilty now from for all of the For all of the value that I've had out of these. Let's look at text expander because that was the other one If if these things do not provide the value, you know, do not save you more in your time than these cost um Yeah, I don't know what to say there is And our text expander is a uh subscription um three thirty three per month uh Four dollars sixteen a month and the the text expander another one one thing I like about text expander is You can go in and it will give you like a monthly report of how much time you've saved You're putting your typing speed if you're expanding things like your email address or you know your name That are really short snippets then it's going to take a while to sort of you know Save yourself that much time, but when you're using it for like Producing full proposals dropping, you know, the name of the person in and maybe some date information or something And then it's just going You know putting out all of this text that otherwise you would have had to either type or cut and paste Um, you'll see text expander will tell you how many hours you've saved that month And so yeah for me, although this one is a subscription model It's still just a total no-brainer and if you do it up front for the month It's whatever it is thirty nine dollars for it for a year of it Whereas all of the others that we've just looked at there are all just one-off payments and Yeah, like I say they all they should pay for themselves within a week frankly in terms of Once you start using them for you know automating your tasks depending on the you know your your time cost if you want to factor that in Um, anyway, I hope that has been useful If you've got any questions about anything that I've covered today then do feel free to drop me a message Or also feel free to join the the discord take one tech i o slash family And you can join come in there. Don't worry if you're not familiar with discord I've got a video explaining how to use it and it's basically a great resource for information So if you've got any specific questions about anything that I've covered in today Actually, that's the best place to go and drop those questions Thanks a lot for watching and thanks for hanging out and I'll see you again next time and For those watching on the replay, I will try to go and put some more automation based stuff over on the right hand side Saw some new renewals come up just during the last 10 minutes So thanks to them and of course everyone else who is a channel member Really appreciate your support and encouragement Have a great day everyone. See you next time