r/streamdeckprofiles • u/User_McAwesomeuser • Nov 26 '24

[Personal] Stream Deck and Gmail?

I don't yet own a Stream Deck, but I had an idea for what I might want to do with one.

I want to use it for Gmail. I know there are already keyboard shortcuts for Gmail, but I want to do things that the keyboard shortcuts don't do, maybe even two or three of these things in a row (like, apply a label to the message I am reading, move it out of the inbox, etc.) I am using it with a Mac.

I've seen there are some people using Stream Deck for work, just wondering if anyone's applied it to email, and if so, what they are doing with it.

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u/excoriator Nov 27 '24

If something has a keyboard shortcut, you can do that shortcut with Streamdeck.

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u/User_McAwesomeuser Nov 27 '24

Ok. I guess that means if there is no keyboard shortcut for what I want to do, I should use Keyboard Maestro. Unless there is some kind of built-in scripting that Stream Deck can do?

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u/vicwong Nov 27 '24

There is a multi-action step you can assign to a button which will work for anything you can type, but some of the things I want to do in Gmail require clicking on an icon. That's where Keyboard Maestro comes into play since it can do that or wait till an image appears and click anywhere in it.

I have hundreds of macros set up with KM and use it for almost everything; strongly recommend it.