It is crazy how much you can do to make this touchbar your very own experience.

You basically create a button on the touchbar and map it to a keyboard shortcut, a pre-defined action listed in BTT, even create a chain of actions. My Global template – so my touchbar will always look like this unless an app has an app-specific touchbar template This is how my touchbar will look like when I launch Microsoft Word What can BetterTouchTool do App Specific: When you want the touchbar to change according to the app you are in, make app specific touchbar templates.Global: This is how your touchbar will look like everywhere unless you’ve an app specific template.The right side is where you do your customisation. On the left sidebar, you’ll see Global and other apps that I’ve made app-specific touchbar templates. In this post, I’ll be explaining this app through my preset. But to get a sense of how the touchbar customisation works, I recommend downloading a user preset to have something to tinker around with. The app’s interface may scare you a bit as it looks kinda complicated (the developer is on track to revamp how the UI to make it easier for users to understand BTT). Another awesome thing is that the developer created a forum for users to share their touchbar customisation presets, so everyone gets to enjoy useful and amazing tools for FREE. What makes this app brilliant is that it allows you to customise and do all the things you want to do on the touchbar.Īpple should have released an app like this along with the introduction of the touchbar.Īpart from customising the touchbar, this app does way more such as customising your keyboard, trackpad and even gives you windows snapping! But in this post, I’ll focusing on the touchbar customisation. When using my friend’s 2017 MBP w/o touchbar, I missed the productivity tools I’ve set up on my touchbar. This app made me WANT to have a touchbar. Until I downloaded BetterTouchTool (BTT). I was having the same opinion as most people – the touchbar is a gimmick, not worth paying extra for it.

Besides that I didn’t found the touchbar to increase my productivity even in apps like Premiere Pro, Microsoft Word, etc. But Apple doesn’t give you an option in the touchbar settings to do that unless you revert to the Expanded Control Strip. When I first got my 2018 MacBook Pro, I still preferred tapping to change volume rather than flicking or swiping. The MacBook Pros these days all come with the touchbar.

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