tamagoshi Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 To switch apps I mostly use Alfred to type in the first few chars of an apps name and every now and then I'll Alt-Tab. I switch between Sublime, Postbox, Chrome and Terminal at least a hundred times per day and I realize my method is pretty expensive (at least 4 keystrokes). Obviously assigning a global hotkey would be the most efficient but I already have problems with local and global shortcuts clashing. What do you more experienced users do (Im new to osx from Ubuntu) to switch apps as quickly as possible, am I missing anything? Link to comment
jdfwarrior Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 I use Opt+<num> to do several of mine. So you could do.. Opt+1 = Sublime Opt+2 = Postbox Opt+3 = Chrome Opt+4 = Terminal tamagoshi and sphardy 2 Link to comment
ctwise Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 I do Java development and my IDE eats up almost all of the possible key chords. That leaves me with control-option-command+<letter>. So, control-option-command-m is Mail, etc. I thought it would be too many keys but it actually works very well. Tyler Eich 1 Link to comment
Tyler Eich Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 I use Cmd+Opt+Ctrl+[letter]. It takes two hands, but its easy to remember 'C' for Chrome, 'S' for Safari, 'E' for Reeder, 'T' for Textmate, etc. Link to comment
jdfwarrior Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 Guys that are using cmd+ctrl+opt+ <letter>, I'm sure you know but, you could use a key remapped to map Caps Lock to simulate the first three chars Link to comment
Tyler Eich Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 Guys that are using cmd+ctrl+opt+ <letter>, I'm sure you know but, you could use a key remapped to map Caps Lock to simulate the first three chars Is this possible without external apps or modifications? I've only ever heard of third party apps letting you do that. Link to comment
jehrler Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 Can I add to Tyler's request for how to go about doing this. I can't even find third party apps that will allow that. Link to comment
Lauri Ranta Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Can I add to Tyler's request for how to go about doing this. I can't even find third party apps that will allow that. You can use PCKeyboardHack to change caps lock to another key like F19, and then add something like this to private.xml in KeyRemap4MacBook: <autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::F19, KeyCode::COMMAND_L, ModifierFlag::CONTROL_L | ModifierFlag::OPTION_L | ModifierFlag::SHIFT_L | ModifierFlag::COMMAND_L</autogen> Link to comment
gillibrand Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 A good description of this is at http://brettterpstra.com/2012/12/08/a-useful-caps-lock-key/ Just replace BetterTouchTool with Alfred at the end. Link to comment
erist Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 A warning though, I experienced some system instability when running both PC Keyboard Hack and KeyRemap4Macbook. Kernel panics, etc. Couldn't ever track down the actual cause, but they have disappeared since I uninstalled both of them. YMMV. Link to comment
timstringer Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 (edited) I use the following hotkey combinations and rarely run into any conflicts. ⌃ + ⇧ + key — Launch Application (e.g. ⌃ + ⇧ + T to launch TextEdit) ⌃ + ⌥ + key — Open Folder (e.g. ⌃ + ⌥ + C to open Clients folder) ⌥ + ⇧ + key — Open Website (e.g. ⌥ + ⇧ + L to open LinkedIn website) ⌃ + ⌥ + ⌘ + key — System Action (e.g. ⌃ + ⌥ + ⌘ + ⌦ to empty trash) ⌃ + ⌥ + ⌘ + key — Web Search (e.g. ⌃ + ⌥ + ⌘ + G to search Google) double-tap ⌘ — Show Clipboard history double-tap ⌃ — Show Documents folder double-tap ⌥ — Show Desktop folder (edit) I just posted a screencast/video that talks about this in more detail: http://technicallysimple.com/screencasts/alfred-2-hotkeys/ Edited April 11, 2013 by timstringer Link to comment
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