AppleScripts for the Keyboard Lover
April 5th, 2009
Increasingly, I love that OS X seems to be designed to want to do what I tell it to. Don’t let me get started on the wonders of the mouse (two-finger scrolling, three-finger swiping, shrink/enlarge, screen zoom, and rotate). But in interfacing with this oh so lovely OS, there’s one thing that keeps coming back to annoy me: keyboard shortcuts.
Largely, I’ve learned those I find most useful. Minimize. Hide. Hide All. Preview. Open. Switch application (forwards and backwards). Application specific shortcuts. But always, several shortcuts were missing. Specifically, those to…
- maximize/restore the current window
- label files with specific colors
- show all windows
Then AppleScript and Butler came into my life…
