I’m irrationally very excited over this. And since I bought KM about a couple of months ago, I get a free upgrade (if you purchase after 1 Feb 2019, you will receive an email with the V9 license key), else, it is a paid upgrade ($25 only, but for a limited time due to product launch, it is just $18).
I really should have bought KM years ago. Now it turns out I bought v8 30 days too early
I guess I’ll upgrade sometime, so I may as well do it for $18 now, with a (slightly) heavy heart. There’s nothing in there that screams at me to make it a must-buy, but I do want it to continue improving and supporting Catalina etc.
Got my email from Stairways with a link to my discount code. The email says You can purchase your discounted upgrade to version 9 for $18 until 8 October 2019. Just purchased the license through FastSpring and immediately got my new serial number.
Has anyone thought of any neat uses for the updated features? I am having trouble justifying the upgrade as I’m not sure I’ll use any of those actions! I might wait for v10.
Ha! I think David lucked out here… the UI is much the same, and there have been additions, but not subtractions, so he should be OK… which is good since he got hit with a major Shortcuts re-write already.
The new OCR features makes Keyboard Maestro a much more suitable (and already powerful) replacement for Hazel (I think). Fingers crossed the OCR works a treat.
Yeah I think David lucked out. His guide really upped my game too on KM. In fact it is now a consideration for my next computer that it support KM9, probably will hold off the upgrade till then as long as this one works with Catalina. The basics, which are something of a learning curve on KM are fully covered by David. With a kind of instinct for what one needs to know: an instinct I wish I had.
Already touched some points with @tjluoma. I will say that the advice and help I got on this site has been invaluable.