843: Bear and Glass Teaches Keyboard Control

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Paletro, an app for choosing menu items by keyboard, was mentioned in this episode. When I tried using it a few years back, I found it to be somewhat unreliable—in some apps it would find menu items, in others it would not. Maybe that’s not the case anymore. However, I really wanted the ability to use the keyboard to choose menu items, and discovered this Alfred workflow: Menu Bar Search. If you’re already an Alfred user, this is an excellent ‘lightweight’ workflow that will do the same thing as Paletro.

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Although I’ve not had time to listen, I’ve sure this episode is fantastic.

Brett Terpstra is a legend! Since he works with Christopher Gamblée-Wallencheck, I’m sure he’s awesome too!

Bear & Glass sounds very intriguing! I can’t wait to learn more.

All Mac Power Users need to visit Brett Terpstra’s website and check out all of his cool tools! Among many, a few of my favorites are:

If you are able, I encourage you to support Brett. I have no affiliation, but I’m a happy customer and I admire his expertise, passion, and generosity.

Those that have Keyboard Maestro, might find the below useful; it’s a macro I’ve created and shared on the Keyboard Maestro forum to leverage SearchLink and Gather:

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Wow! What an episode. With even a mention of the legendary ‘upcoming’ nvUltra!!!

As I listened on my walk today, it became increasingly clear that Brett and crew may have already started thinking about my own unfinished task: finding a way to easily archive ChatGPT threads outside of GPT for easy search and retrieval of deep parts of a thread. The biggest obstacle I hit is that there’s no simple way (that I know of…) to CMD-all, copy and paste into a text editor for cleanup and future retrieval.

Any ideas of how to do that? I’m forever wondering which thread has that great idea I wanted to make actionable. Thanks for any help!

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In the episode it sounded like Marked 3 and NVUltra were imminent, especially Marked 3.

Anyone know what the status is now?

Todd

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Not now, but 17 days ago:

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I had never heard of Paletro before, although I use that “fuzzy menu search” functionality in PyCharm all the time and love it.

I found an Alfred Workflow that does the same thing: Alfred Gallery • Workflows • Menu Bar Search