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<\/p>\nIf you’re a keyboard-oriented Mac user, Moom 4 speaks your language. Every custom action can have its own keyboard shortcut, for starters. And, of course, there’s Keyboard mode, with even more keyboard-centric powers.<\/p>\n
One of the new keyboard-focused features in Moom 4 is hiding at the bottom of the Keyboard section of Moom’s Settings window: The “Access custom actions via hot key” keyboard shortcut box.<\/p>\n
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This feature isn’t enabled by default (and it’s independent of Moom’s Keyboard mode), but in the above screenshot, it has been assigned a Shift-Control-Option-M shortcut. <\/p>\n
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Press the assigned shortcut keys, and Moom will pop up a window showing all of your custom actions, organized just as they appear in Moom’s Settings window:<\/p>\n
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The up and down arrow keys navigate the list vertically, and the left and right arrow keys drill down into and out of folders within the list; press Return to activate the selected item.<\/p>\n
The screenshot also subtly shows another ability of this menu: Type-selection of entries in the list. Start typing, and Moom will smart-match your typing to the entries in the list, highlighting matches with underlines. The screenshot shows a selection based on typing stoti<\/em> to select the Stock Ticker saved layout. (Press Return when the action you want to use is highlighted.)<\/p>\n Want to use this same technique to access specific custom actions? Put those actions into a folder, and give that folder a keyboard shortcut.<\/p>\n And you don’t have to restrict yourself to one folder. Create a folder for layouts, another for grids, a third for Move & Resize actions, etc. Once you give them a keyboard shortcut, you can access them via the pop-up menu seen above.<\/p>\n You can also access saved layouts via third-party apps Alfred and Keyboard Maestro (and probably other similar apps), both of which add the ability to actively filter the list of matching layouts as you type.<\/p>\n If you’re an Alfred<\/a> user with the Powerpack, you can use this workflow<\/a> to browse and select from Moom’s saved layouts:<\/p>\n Note that we haven’t tested this workflow ourselves, but have heard from others on Discord that it works.<\/p>\n If you’re a Keyboard Maestro<\/a> user, you can use a simple macro to browse your collection of layouts, then use type-select to narrow the matches as you type:<\/p>\nKeyboard access to some custom actions<\/h3>\n
\nAccess Moom layouts via Alfred<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nAccess Moom layouts via Keyboard Maestro<\/h3>\n
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