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I'm a big fan of Gmail-like shortcuts, where you don't need to hold shift or command to actually make good use of it. Pocket and Reeder also have such, give it a shot if you don't know what I mean.

Keyboard Maestro allows to create one-key shortcuts, however, if you're typing something in a text field in an application, it will activate the one-key shortcut as soon as you hit the designated key.

The best solution I found for this is to create an "if" sentence that stops the macro if a text field is active (or cursor is active, i don't know what is possible). Or that only proceeds with the macro if a text field (or any place you can type) is not selected.

Any ideas?

Casimir et Hippolyte
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  • Quick update: There's a "solution" created by Philippe Martin [here](http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/keyboard_maestro/message/5020). I'm not 100% satisfied with it and would be great to find alternatives. For example, if I use his trick to delegate a different function for the spacebar in Things, such as mark selected task as done, as in The Hit List, since there's already an action attached to the spacebar (create a task below), one doesn't erase the other. Besides, you always gotta hold your key longer than you'd desire for a keyboard shortcut. – Phillip Gruneich Jul 13 '13 at 14:56
  • Your link to the solution is broken. Also, you should probably add it as an answer rather than a comment. – studgeek Sep 19 '14 at 15:00
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    @studgeek [Here's a fixed link](https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/keyboard_maestro/conversations/topics/5020). I'll write an answer on the subject later, although the workaround is yet not a proper solution. – Phillip Gruneich Sep 19 '14 at 20:19

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I think you can use Karabiner.

https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/history.html.en

AXNotifier has been added. AXNotifier allows you to observe the window name (window title) and the focused ui element role (eg. whether textarea or not). For example, a setting that allows you to use hjkl keys as arrow keys in Finder when you are not editing text such as filename has been added.

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