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Really? What do you use the conflict panel for in this situation? I’m a KM user on and off and just thought it displayed when KM’s own keyboard shortcuts point to the same thing and lets you decide on your intended shoice.

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Sorry, late to seeing this. Here’s how I use it:

  • I have a single keystroke* assigned to a couple dozen KM macros.

  • Each macro opens a single app (or Finder folder, URL, etc.), and all are named Open XXX where XXX is the name of the app.

  • Now, when I use the keystroke, KM realizes there are multiple macros that I might mean, so it displays a conflict palette — a long list of macros I might mean, sorted by name.

  • You could click to choose, but a built-in feature of KM conflict palettes is that, when it appears, typing a letter narrows the list to just macros where that letter distinguishes the macros, all of which begin Open — so typing m, for example, reduces the list to include Marked (Open Marked), Messages (Open Messages), etc., but not Safari or Brave.

  • Typing another letter further narrows the list, and so on, until you’ve matched a unique macro, which executes — so typing m then e gets you Open Messages for example.

  • Sometimes I modify app names slightly in the macro name to avoid conflicts: so Open fFirefox because fi is Finder, or Open mMaps because ma is Marked 2, example. This way I never have to type more than two characters after triggering the conflict palette.

This is all way easier to implement and use than it is to describe, I swear. Also, I didn’t come up with this on my own. I got the idea from David “MacSparky” Sparks on the Mac Power Users podcast.

Enjoy!

*I use Hyper-b, because originally I was just going to use it to switch between browsers

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That is really cool. Exactly the thing I would find useful.

Thanks for sharing. I might put together something like it.

ps. David’s tips are addictive, I spend a lot of time trying the recommendations from Mac Power Users and Automators podcast.

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hey @ttscoff, thank you for speaking candidly about your super powers. this bipolar bear appreciates it :+1:

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My pleasure. Apparently my complex ptsd makes me an oversharer, but if it helps anyone else, I don’t regret it.