Showing posts with label BetterTouchTool. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BetterTouchTool. Show all posts

2011/03/17

How to easily assign shortkeys and gestures to AppleScripts

In my daily workflow I use a significant number of AppleScripts, as you will have understoond from my previous posts :-). So it is handy for me to assign shortkeys to some of them. For this purpose I use the FastScripts utility.  Although it is not a commercial app, it gives you for free up to 10 keyboard shortcuts.
 
After the previous assignments you are able to trigger the execution of AppleScripts using customized gesture definitions with the help of BetterTouchTool app.

In the following screenshot you can see some of my Skim gestures:


2011/03/06

Open a DevonThink hyperlink directly to Skim

I use a QuicKeys macro in order to open a DevonThink PDF hyperlink directly to the specific PDF page in Skim. In the following image you see the required steps of the macro. In the third step you should put the whole AppleScipt from my previous post:  "Go from the current PDF page in DevonThink to the same page in Skim - AppleScript" 


Then you can assign a specific gesture (for example "four finger click") using BetterTouchToul to the used hot key (option + cmd + F1) for the macro and you are done! Now you can bypass DevonThink and read the linked PDF page in Skim immediately!

You can download this macro from here (right click + Sava as)

 Automation rules!