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Short Touch β

Application to easily generate short cut buttons on MacBooks with the touch bar.

What can it do

Short Touch allows you to have 6 shortcuts on your touch bar that are somewhat easily accessible at the click of a button. Unfortunately, there are some limitations of the the touch bar api, such as the fact that it's only present while the app is open. It acts more of a quick launcher rather than a permanent solution for your TB. Right now it supports opening URLs (in Safari), and opening apps. I would like to add support for opening links inside other browsers (Chrome, Firefox).

Install

*Currently this is still in beta/development and can only be installed by cloning the repo and manually installing it.

Make sure you have Node.js installed.

> git clone https://github.com/SunstroUS/short-touch.git
> cd short-touch
> npm install
> npm run start

Features

  • 6 custom short cuts
  • Native macOS appearance
  • Can open URLs (in safari)
  • Can open applications
  • Open Source and always free

Creating a new short touch

For Applications

You must start the input with '/Applications/'

example: '/Applications/Google Chrome.app'

For URLs

You must start the input with 'http://' or 'https://'

example: 'https://www.github.com/sunstrous'

Dev

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