Superkey https://superkey.app/ is a nifty utility by an independent developer. I use Superkey dozens of times everyday. I bought it just for the Hyperkey feature which maps the useless caps lock key to shift-control-option-command key sequence thus opening up a gazillion set of hot key combinations not used by any other applications. That’s just one of the many caps lock options in Superkey.
Why would I want to do this when I have a perfectly good mouse? Hot keys are much faster than moving a mouse around. Furthermore, if you are a certain age where you know VT-100, ASR-35, and 2648 are not car models you look on mice as a another one of those fads that will come and go. For example I’ve mapped the Hyper Key+F keyboard shortcut to open the Finder application.
A small Example: I’ve set up an Alfred Workflow to launch NotePlan when I press the CAPS Lock and N keys
In addition it also adds several other features:
- Seek anything you can display with just the keyboard
- Remap keys to enable features like delete forward, past without formatting, etc.
This is one in a series of small applications I am using on my Mac. Look for another in the near future.
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