Updated 07/30/2022

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Below are my setup for

A note on using these: it probably seems like a lot to get used to. I would recommend adding things one at a time until you get used to them, you can probably get through all of this in a few months if you’re diligent. This stuff needs to get baked into your subconscious. There are so many hotkeys and shortcuts then if I start thinking about them explicitly, I struggle to use my keyboard. But if I just think about what I want my computer to do, my hands will chord the right keys instantly.

How to think about row prioritization:

The idea of an App Specific Button is that in many applications there are one or two actions that you perform quite often. For example, in my workflow, in email it is making an email as spam, and in Slack it is advancing to the next channel with unread messages, etc.

Each of these normally takes multiple key presses (the hotkey for spam is exclamation point which is shift-1, and the hotkey sequence for advancing to the next channel with unreads in Slack is command-k and then Enter). The left and right App Specific Buttons are programmed to be the 2 most common such actions in each application. You can use my macros as inspiration, but you’ll want to customize these based on your personal workflow.