– This is just a first draft. Needs review & input by Peter and other editors.

• An extremely powerful, but easy-to-use, automation/integration/prototyping tool that runs on Mac OS X
• Very useful for both non-programmers and power users who are uncomfortable/comfortable with almost any scripting
• Allows you to easily create workflows called Macros, a list of Actions, that can be triggered by a wide variety of events, like
  • hotkeys,
  • typed string (text expansion),
  • app startup/shutdown
  • login
  • Status Menu in the Apple menu bar
  • scripts
  • and many, many more.
• For non-programmers, Macros can be easily built using drag/drop of Actions.
• Power users can combine the ease of drag/drop orthogonal actions with powerful integrated scripting using AppleScript, JXA, Shell Scripts, JavaScript, Python, Swift Scripts, and Automator Workflows.
• One of the best supported Mac apps available today
  • Extensive help is readily available in the Keyboard Maestro Forum
  • The very few bugs that are found are fixed quickly
  • Each major release has provided an incredible number of useful new features. See Version 7 for example.

Here are some great examples of Keyboard Maestro Macros:

• The Example Macros that come with Keyboard Maestro. Goto Window > Macro Library in the Keyboard Maestro app.
• Best Macro List in the Forum macro section
• List of Example Macros
• Macros submitted by other users. Goto the Forum > macros section.

  
  

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First draft by JMichaelTX on Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 8:07 PM