How to setup custom keyboard shortcuts on MacOS

13 Feb 2023

You can assign any keyboard shortcut to any action, either at system level or at app level, as long as the action is listed in the system's/app's menu.

In System Settings... > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts... > App Shortcuts.

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Shortcuts can be defined for any app:

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Important is to enter in this field the exact name of the action in the app, as it appears in the app's menu.

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For example, for Things !apps/things I added Quick Find... (note the ... and proper capitalisation), which is exactly what appears in the Things menu:

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