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28 juin 2014

Actions

After a day of playing with Actions for iPad to organize my workflows (and giving up because, no matter how excellent the app is, I still find it a bit inconvenient to get my hands off the MacBook Pro and reach the iPad every time I want to trigger an action), here is my latest “productivity” setup:

BetterTouchTool lets me define triggers for gestures such as “three-finger tap” or “two-finger swipe down from the edge of the trackpad”; those gestures emulate an obscure keyboard shortcut I set to activate a DragThing dock that’s full of scripts (and for which I spent a couple hours designing the icons in Photoshop because I’m a Mac, not Linux, nerd), and place the mouse pointer in the middle of that dock. It’s crazy how many things BetterTouchTool allows you to do — I’ll need to devote another afternoon to exploring what else I could achieve with it.

Those scripts: open a bunch of sites I check regularly (for which I had previously set up inconvenient hotkeys); pause and rewind Downcast (I never got around to creating keyboard shortcuts for that one because I had run out of easily accessible keys); lock the screen; activate Fantastical; etc.

So far it’s working pretty well. I’m not sure why I felt the need to write it up, though — either in order to thank the relevant developers for making it possible, or just because I’m bored and I’ll seize any excuse for procrastinating.

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