I'm not sure if this is possible with BTT, but I want to be able to hit a keyboard shortcut (i.e. Option + Enter) and that'll bring up the contextual menu (the right click) on the word where the text cursor is.
There is a 12 year old thread on superuser that asks for the same thing which did not find the solution and I'm hoping that the BTT community does.
unfortunately there is no really good way to achieve this. For many apps the predefined action "Show Context Menu For Selected Item" will work, but it will not work in all apps.
I can only think of a tinkering solution. Note, the cursor must be in the word (not at the beginning or the end). And I have no idea if this works in any text environment. Having said this, try this.
If the "show context menu for selected item" action doesn't work in the apps you need it, you can try using the "Move Mouse To Position" action, followed by a right click. This will also work in some apps, but not all of them:
Thanks for the tip, this seems to work, but only for Notes (and maybe other apps?).
It does not work for Obsidian, which I want to use mainly unfortunately.
This does not seem to work for Obsidian, unfortunately!
Actually, I found that Obsidian had it's own command that I can use to set my preferred hotkeys!
show context menu under cursor can be found in Settings, which I then just set to my option + enter command!
Thanks for the help, everyone! Hopefully someone that has a similar problem finds this thread.
I tried a lot of options to be able to work with spell check without touching the mouse on macOS (like you can easily do on windows with the context key) but didn’t find a way that worked in all apps.
The only consistent option that worked for me in the end is “cmd + shift + ;” (rebound it to F13 which is on my INS key)
Then I navigate the “Spelling and Grammar” window using arrow keys and then hit enter to apply. Then I hit escape to close it.
(great thing is you can select “learn” by using tab or shift tab to add words to your personal dictionary)
It also applies to all of the text in the current text area and and you don’t need to move the text caret to a specific word.
Hope this helps someone.
Edit: After checking more, it doesn’t work in Notion web or app and in Claude app 
macOS is just great!
@maddada the info in this thread is a bit outdated, since macOS 15 you can use the predefined action "Press Context Menu Key" in BTT (which simulates a new key that is now officially supported by macOS and supported by most/all applications)
@Andreas_Hegenberg Hey Andreas, thank you for your response and for your amazing work on BTT. You made macOS 1000 times better!
So I tried “Press Context Menu Key” just now and it didn’t do anything in Chrome (tried text field and text box), Notion (App), and Slack (App).
It did work in the macOS notes app and in Safari (both of which I don’t use)
I now have my insert key bound to open Popclip which is the most reliable since it uses the clipboard but it’s not possible to add new words to it.
Then I have Shift + F13 (insert) to do cmd + shift + ; to open Spelling & Grammar.
Then I have Cmd + F13 to do “Press Context Menu Key”
And I try them 1 by 1 until one works 
I just really wish I could have a single context menu key on macOS. I used it a TON in windows to fix spelling and for other reasons but I’ve not been able to do this one mac with 1 key. I have RSI so I prefer keeping movement between keyboard and mouse to a minimum.
That new key is supposed to be exactly that, but you are right, it seems like chrome/electron based apps have not yet implemented it ;-(
It seems work on this for these apps has started, voting there might help:
