
There are 15 different categories, with actions like sending a key press to a specific application (a requirement I mentioned in part 2), performing a mouse click, hiding an application, running a script, opening a URL, resizing a window, and putting the computer to sleep.

Actions include… well… seemingly everything. The triggers include the aforementioned custom gestures, but also keyboard shortcuts, text snippets, Siri remotes, MIDI device controls, a BTT remote app on your phone, the MacBook Pro TouchBar, and, as of a recent version, the Stream Deck. However, now I was being told it could handle Stream Deck buttons! I checked it out and was amazed at the feature set included in this software.Īt its core, BTT has many types of triggers and many types of actions and you can wire these together in any way you can imagine. I’d looked at this software before, and even trialled it, but I didn’t really see myself using custom gestures on my mouse or trackpad, which were its flagship feature.


I posted a question on the Mac Power Users forums and was pointed to an application called Better Touch Tool, or “BTT” for short. I knew there were plugins that did this for their specific functions, but I could not figure out how I could get my own information shown. At the end of Part 2, I had a really useful set of buttons, many with nice button faces, and I was looking into how to get live information to display on a button.
