![]() You, and by extension, this Forum, are a massive contribution to me and my life. Peter, don't misunderstand I love you, I love what you contribute. ![]() I'm now going out on a limb (kids, please leave the room, this is for adults). More conventionally, Peter, like any company head, sets the company's tone and provides the opportunity to produce the company's value. I believe everything comes from a 'Source' and Peter is the source of KM, and it is from him, and within his 'space' that we get to have these interactions and produce whatever. While this Forum is exceptional in the 'space' it provides for contribution, it's still a public space and not what I'd call completely safe (only comatose is completely safe). Ultimately though, if QK suddenly released a brand new version, I wouldn't move back.įirst, Tim, thank you for expressing yourself. It really was a diametrically opposed philosophy. I'm so grateful for the help that I had right here when I was in Timbo's position – trying to convert away from QK. On that front it seems like a good time to thank everyone here again. It's a major strength of KM - an enthusiastic and knowledgeable community with active feedback. I've found though that one of the greatest resources is this very forum. Timbo, if you're still listening, I have been totally converted to the KM process from originally lamenting the death of QK, and also being shocked at how differently the two approached the similar task of MacOS automation. They both "help you make music" but that's about where the usefulness of having used one app ends when you start on the other. This happens elsewhere, as a musician I've experienced it being a Logic Pro user and then trying to use Ableton. It honestly would have been far easier not to have had any QK knowledge before I started. I too converted over to KM when QK died and was initially somewhat confounded at the process. I think part of the problem is that Timbo used Quickeys, Quickeys is dead, Timbo wants KM to be quickeys, KM isn't very QK-like. And yet your follow-up actions echo the same pattern - shout and call names: The forum responds to this with its opposite: kindness, sympathy, and wisdom. that venting in anger, and calling names, is helpful to you or others.that since you are ignorant and confused by something new, that thing is bad and deserves public shame, and.Not your confusion, not your ignorance (we all start with both), but rather the two conclusions that seem to have driven you to post: The UI may be an elephant in the room, but it's the undigestible straw that went all the way through that is the important bulk of this thread: Tim - like me, you are the problem. ![]() There were two commonalities there - me and Keyboard Maestro - and only one was the problem. I'm smart, I use computers, I teach people how to use computers - I couldn't get a single macro to work. Like most of those who have contributed to this thread, I came to Keyboard Maestro (inserted that with one of scores of text-substitution KMacros I've snapped together, trigger is ".km" – quotes bracketing done with another KMacro I have bound to one of the four programmable keycodes my ZSA Moonlander allows for each key ) … I came to Keyboard Maestro purblind and green-horned, that is to say, with scant programming knowledge and no already-learned structure on which to hang its new concepts. ![]() The very title of this post - Keyboard Maestro Is Far Too Complicated and Elite! - (which I just used my KMacro "Paste from Clipboard as Text" to cite without linking ) runs counter to being helpful or willing to sip the cool fresh water of a font of learning. Something may make one feel "elitist" - or make one conclude that another is "elitist" - but in the interest of solving problems and providing useable feedback (which is a fine use of one's time on-line), these judgements must be stated as one's conclusion, and not stated as fact. One can't stick to facts there - the user's experience is their own - but in citing one's experience one must stick to one's own feelings and not project those onto an exterior framework such as a software program or a person. And especially important in any discussion about UX, which of course involves the UI. IMHO, KM in this forum is the opposite of a religion: nothing is taken on faith, logic and critical thinking are encouraged, and only practical solutions are valued.
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