I'm trying to have way too many shortcuts that work globally and don't interfere with any of the apps I'm using. This is especially difficult with programming editors like Cursor/VS Code.
In order to avoid having too many single letter/number hotkeys/shortcuts, I'm trying to create a multi-key shortcut.
For example, for opening some frequently visited URL, I could use multi-key shortcut. For example, if I want to open Trello board of a client called Folivoro, I (wish I) could assign the keyboard shortcut CTRL+T+F (CTRL+T for Trello; F for Folivoro). Similarly, if I wanted to open Trello board for a different client called BetterTool, I could assign CTRL+T+B, etc. etc.
Is there some way to capture key sequence, such as CTRL+T+B?
Here's my multi-trigger try:
Trigger on SHIFT+CTRL+H => sets variable + shows HUD for feedback
I tried adding trigger on a single letter "C", with advanced conditions Condition: currently_blocking_keyboard == 1 => this blocks typing letter "C" even when advanced condition is not met. There's no "passthrough" of the trigger when the condition is not met. Am I missing something. I also tried without advanced condition and have simple if-block. Same result.
Any way to achieve this would be greatly appreciated.
PS In "Assign/Set Value for Variable" action, it would be useful if for Value you could use {variableName} just like you can use it to show it in HUD.
PPS In the same action, at the bottom "See the documentation for more info." would be useful if there was a direct link to documentation since BTT's documentation is huge and would be great to save some time.
@Frank1 ahhh that's pretty cool! I completely missed the Key Sequences as a separate settings pane in the dropdown.
I've played a bit and managed to achieve 99% of desired functionality and I'm quite happy with the end result. (It's good enough™)
One suggestion for improvement would be possibility to add HUD or some other feedback as the key sequence is being recognized. For example, I have few quite long key sequences: "hcla" and "hclst". Without feedback, it's a bit of blind guessing trying to type "hclst", but it's doable.
I would advise against that. The fact that you need "feedback" is the whole explanation. It's complicated to type and you won't remember at some point.
In my opinion, two letters make sense. In your case, perhaps “ha” and “ht”.
I have been using these shortcuts from within the browser already, called Site Search. In Chromium browsers: Manage search engines => Site Search.
I'm familiar with many of these and, if I forget them...I don't care. When I need the shortcut again, I can check if I already have it and remind myself of what the shortcut is...or create a shortcut if one doesn't exist.
Speaking of remembering/forgetting, if you have memorized a good enough (or many) association(s) to the shortcut, you won't forget it.[1]
To me: hcla and hclst mean something:
hcla => heroku civic lift activity tab
hclst => heroku civic lift staging
hmuni => heroku muni
hmunist => heroku muni staging
Similarly, I have the same shortcuts to open the actual sites, without the letter "h":
cl => civic lift website
clst => civic lift staging website
I'm not sure if it's possible to have "cl" and "clst" key sequence such that "cl" triggers with delay (waiting for possible completion of "clst" key sequence). I use these shortcuts at least once a week.
@Andreas_Hegenberg is there some way to have trigger only get triggered when the conditions ("Advanced condition" or similar) is met, and otherwise it just lets the macOS native keyboard shortcut functionality.
Basically what I mentioned earlier:
I tried adding trigger on a single letter "C", with advanced conditions Condition: currently_blocking_keyboard == 1 => this blocks typing letter "C" even when advanced condition is not met. There's no "passthrough" of the trigger when the condition is not met.
