Recording allows Keyboard Maestro to watch you as you perform a task and create the actions to produce a similar result. For details, see the Recording page in the User Manual.
The Record Quick Macro action is a variant of this which you can activate at any time without launching Keyboard Maestro. It, like all Macros, can be triggered by a hotkey. You can quickly trigger the start of recording, perform a series of actions, then stop (which saves) recording. When you're ready to apply the same actions again, just press the associated hot key ([OPT] + [F1] by default) to execute the recorded actions.
(Note: text in brackets [ ]
denote keys on your keyboard)
Press [OPT] + [F1] when you are ready to execute the macro. Be sure your cursor is located at the starting point first.
So for example, to make a Quick Recording, you press [CTRL] + [F1] to start quick recording, type “hello” and then press [CTRL] + [F1] again to stop recording.
Then Keyboard Maestro will type “hello” each time you press [OPT] + [F1].
For example, say you wanted to add quote marks around a dozen different words in a paragraph, you could
Now click in the middle of each remaining word and press [OPT] + [F1].
Keyboard Maestro automatically includes an implicit Semaphore at the start of the recorded macro so that you can trigger the resulting macro quickly multiple times and it will execute sequentially.