I can’t work on my Mac without this little keypad anymore

Offloading keyboard shortcuts to a programmable macro keypad is the best productivity hack I’ve ever done.

Down the keyboad shortcut rabbit hole

I first got into keyboard shortcuts with simple macOS triggers, such as @@ for my primary email address, and similar ones for my full name, home address, phone number, zip code, and so on.

Then, I decided to take things up a notch with Keyboard Maestro and started setting keyboard shortcuts to open a few of the folders and programs…