Addendum 2021-07-14:
I’ve simplified the macro displayed below thanks to an exchange with the folks at Stairways Software and Keyboard Maestro over Twitter. Apparently, you can toggle a menu setting using the “|” key, that key that’s accessible with Shift-\.
In other words, it can look like this:
I think I’ve got some serious housekeeping to do in my Keyboard Maestro macros now.
Original Post:
Ok, so I think I have created my most meta macro yet. It is a key command to start and stop editing a keyboard macro in Keyboard Maestro. I’m not sure what I win, but I’m going to have extra chocolate now…
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.beingproductive.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/The-Most-Meta-Keyboard-Maestro-macro-1-1024x719.png?resize=781%2C548&ssl=1)
The Most Meta Keyboard Maestro macro
For extra credit, I started and stopped editing this macro itself several times.