Hello everyone, welcome back to another video it is
Francesco here today. I'm actually gonna be passing over to Bakari from Mac automation tips now
I've been following the Bakari for a while now. He does so many great videos about how you can optimize your Mac
He makes my Mac look like my first Mac
It's his experience is so
Automated is so sort of viewed up. That looks fantastic
Today's video he's going to dive into ten sort of
automation tips as well as sort of Mac applications that he would recommend downloading and also setting up
I'm gonna leave it in his capable hands because I think he has so much great knowledge about Mac
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And thank you, hugely to be tiring for coming on for today's video see in a bit guys
Well, hello there this is the khari Shivani with Mac automation tips.com
Hey, I want to thank Francisco for inviting me to come with to his channel and talk about one of my favorite topics
Which is of course some hack automation
My kind of mission is so important to productivity because when you can automate tasks redundant tests on your Mac
You can get a lot more done in this world. You can have a lot of fun
So what I'm going to do in this app, you know in this video is share with you eight applications
that some of them you might be familiar with and some of them you might not be but I definitely want to you know to
Share these applications because you'll find out more about them on my website
Mac automation tips calm as well as my youtube channel of the same name
So definitely stay tuned and let's check it out
alright
so the first
application that I want you to be sure that you're using
I'm pretty sure if you're a Mac power user you already are but you definitely want to be using a text expander all kind of
application and basically what that does
Is it allows you to?
You know type out
You know words and phrases and all kinds of text just using abbreviations that you assign
So basically when I type out my you know my email address I don't type it out, you know letter for letter
Basically I have to do is just type, you know
BM and it definitely know this type set out for me so you can save a ton of typing time
You know, we're using a Texas matching program. Now, I happen to use the kind of classic
Texas banner application which is subscription based application, but there are a lot of other ones that are you know
Just a single price application like type it for me even the Mac has a built in Texas management program as well
It's not as robust as the other ones
But definitely if you just want to get started you definitely want to be using a text expansion program on
your Mac
Alright so now the next application I want to share is one called better touch tool
It is the Mac automation program that I always tell people to get started with
There is no
survey in application you can use but better touch to is a lot of fun and a
Lot of people still don't know a lot about it
So basically what you can do with better touch tool it is enabled you to trigger
You know keyboard shortcuts menu items and other actions on your Mac
Just using your you know finger gesture the application comes with over a hundred different
Gestures and
Also a hundred DIF 100 different predefined actions. I'm telling you when your hand is already on your trackpad or in your mouse
there are so many things that you can do so many actions that you can trigger without having to take your hand back to
Your keyboard in order to do so and and also it reduces the need to remove, you know
Kind of remember keyboard shortcuts and things of that sort
So you definitely want to you know, download a trial version of better touch tool and check it out
I have a free not a free but I have a course
For better touch tool that in the mouth two to three hours it will help you to learn all that you need to know about
better touch tool
Highly recommend this program, even though mag does have some ving finger gesture features inside
You know that the Mac OS it doesn't come anywhere near
As good as better touch tool. All right
So my third, you know application is what I call hazel now mini Mac power users
Probably I already know about hazel hazel is kind of a folder action application
And basically what that means is is that hazel can you know filter?
And and organize and manage any folders you throw into it
So if you want to keep your downloads folder organized say for instance, you want to have all the PDFs that you download?
Transfer it into a PDF folder
Hazel would do that automatically for you
If you want to have you want to keep your desktop clean at the end of the day?
Hazel can move all the files on your desktop to a designated folder at a particular given time
So it's a really great
Application there you can do a lot with it and it's been around for a long time and the developers keep it up
So you definitely want to have a hazel on your Mac. If you're not already using it now and speaking speaking of
Folders, you also should be using I'm guessing that you are but you also should be using smart folders smart
mailboxes
smart playlists and iTunes
smart albums and photos
This is this is built-in technology to the Mac OS and so I strongly recommend that you're using the smart technology
on your Mac and my website has
Articles about how to use that and this cleaner articles on the net as well as well as on YouTube
To find out about them if you're not using them already
alright
so then now the next application I want to talk about really quickly is one called pop clip basically pop clip allows you to
You know trigger actions based upon the selection of text
So if you select a word or phrase or what-have-you
You can have pop clip quickly do a Google search of that word
You can have pop clip copy that word and then paste it you can have
Pop clip, you know kind of format that that that takes into a bowl or a towel things of that sort
So it has all words like, you know hundreds of different
You know kind of actions that you can download and add to your pop clip
library pop clip is a lot of fun and it's one that you definitely want to use if you want to be a
Mac power user and a Mac Automator
Alright, so going to my six
You know application is one. I use every day several times a day, and it's called ScreenFlow
ScreenFlow is a
screen shot application
But what makes it different is is that when you take a screenshot?
the screenshot automatically opens in a quick view
So it stays open on your desktop so that you can you know
Kind of look at it as you're doing some work or you know
you might want to just say you want to take a screenshot to remind you of something and you can save the screenshots in your
ScreenFlow library, right. It's also you can also share those shots to of
applications or some real place on the on the internet
So it's a really really fun application to have and I recommend it all the time
Yeah, I think you could do a trial download of it, but it's really great. Very very affordable
So it's called ScreenFlow the next application
I want to share is one called Alfred now Alfred has some automation in it
But alpha does require you to do some typing in order to run run flows
But Alfred is a really good application for keeping your hands on the keyboard. I use it a lot myself
for doing your clip, you know, do kind of like a history of my
clippings or the history of the things that I've copied
Throughout the day to go back and be able to find those really quickly easy. I also use it for
You know navigating iTunes I use it for doing quick Google searches or lucky searches
so I use it for all kinds of things and it has some some also some workflows that you can download and add to your
Alfred library right there that gives you also even more functionality
so Alfred again is one of the applications been around a long time is constantly updated and
It's a little bit a little bit, you know difficult to use at first Alice
I have a little learning curve to it
But once you get used to it's one of the applications that you can keep going to help you
Keep your hands on your keyboard
The last application that I want to share is one call keyboard maestro
it is kind of the granddaddy of all Mac automation programs and basically
Keep what maestro is similar to?
Automator Mac automating which comes built in with the Mac OS
But keep what maestro is a hundred times better than Automator matter of fact
I really don't even suggest people you use automated because Apple is not really kind of keeping it developed
Keep up maestro. You can do a lot more things with it
Some of the most simple things you can do with keyboard maestro is you can set day and time triggers to open up
You know webpages
Files and applications to do all those kind of things it has folder action
You know capabilities it allows you to you know
Paste copy text it allows you to do a clipboard history
It allows you to to just do a lot of different things that I can I can
Spend the whole videos on and so you can go on my channel and Mac on a mission tips
Too and do a search for keyboard maestro and to find out some videos that I've already produced all about keyboard maestro
Definitely you want to take a trial and learn how to use it. It does
You know, I have a High Line a high learning curve
But it's worth your time to learn it. And once you do you'll be creating
You know macros and actions for almost everything that you do and it doesn't require any coding skills at all
It's just basically what you're doing is you're building a set of you know actions that duplicate what you do
Manually on your Mac. So if you know how to do that you can all you can use, you know
Keep up maestro to trigger keyboard actions menu items
All kinds of things that you can do with keyboard maestro
So you definitely want to download a 30-day trial and check it out
So it's really been great to be on
Francisco's channel here and I want to invite you to subscribe to my channel well to get a lot of tips and how to's
About how to use these programs and others. So thanks again for watching and I hope to see you around
Give me a you know, give me some comments below if you have any questions comments. I really look forward to hearing from you
Thanks a lot