Extra Bar Gets Extra Features

Since I installed Extra Bar on New Year's Eve, I have been systematically going through my automation apps, like Raycast Keyboard Maestro, Better Touch Tool, Hazel, and Apple Shortcuts to organize and consolidate the different ways I use them, since there is now a well thought out menu bar access application that can harness the power of all of them in an effective way. The developers of ExtraBar have been very responsive to feature requests from its user base, and a few recently added features are real game changers, particularly one that came out yesterday which allows you to create a menu item for anything on your computer that uses a global keyboard shortcut. You no longer have to find the deep link for the action you want to summon from extra bar. If you have ever used an Elgato Stream Deck, the Extra Bar developers have basically created an application that mimics that, running in a space on your Mac where you can always access it. Here's a list of some of the things I currently can do from Extra Bar:

• Batch launch all my applications in groups depending on the task at hand: writing, backup, software testing etc.
• Open a new Finder window anywhere at any time by clicking a single function key.
• Close all notifications in the Notification Center at one time.
• Mark all unread mail in my Mail app as read
• Mount network drives from my self-hosted server and unmount them.
• Quit all open applications.
• Run a Keyboard Maestro macro that allows me to pick from a list of any running application, including background applications, and restart it.
• Restart the Finder with a hotkey
• Toggle my desktop widgets hidden/shown
• Search for Keyboard Maestro macros by name.
• Activate the CleanShot X options for capturing a window, an area, running OCR on a screenshot, showing the history of my last ten screenshots, or using the all-in-one tool.
• I'm currently running a system with three displays and twelve virtual desktops, and I have a folder in ExtraBar with a shortcut to each one.
• Upload the image on my clipboard to OpenAI and have it return an alt text description I can use when posting to social media.
• Automatically add today's weather and today's calendar events to my daily note in Obsidian.
• Launch Activity Monitor.
• Open Control Center.
• Empty the trash.
• Restart the keyboard maestro engine.
• Restart my Menu Bar Manager.
• Systematically close all applications, eject all network mounts and attached disks, and log out.
• Restart my computer.
• Access the bookmarks, history, open tabs, and settings for my browser.
• Quickly add a task or project to my task manager and access the views I most commonly look at.
• Display my clipboard history in a searchable way.