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Another way of doing this is assign Hyper key to Caps Lock with Karabiner and then use that to set up hyper+X shortcuts to different or macros using Hammerspoon.

So e.g. I have hyper+a for Alacritty, hyper+b for Browser etc.

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Yep, this was the way I use it too. I had 'qmk' shortcuts but later moved to hammerspoon approach. Right now trying this set up . Andweeb's 'Ki Spoon' [1] for much efficient workflow. It is still under development

1. https://github.com/andweeb/Ki

I do the same (though I use spacehammer which is built on top of hammerspoon). It's been the biggest game changing in my keyboard-driven productivity. I don't like how it feels non-deterministic to command-tab since the order of the apps change. With a hotkey for each I know exactly what will show up when I hit the key, and better than using function keys, I don't have to move my hand from home row, plus it works when I use an external keyboard (which is most of the time).

You can also make your Spacebar (with a tiny delay not to interfere with typing) an app-launcher key, and then you don't even need to move your poor pinky for such frequent space+r for browser space+f for file manager, etc.

Can you please elaborate? How does this not interfere with typing?

i3wm workspaces + bindkeys shortcuts come to mind, this is my natural workflow in i3

meta+1-9 to switch workspaces, meta+various keys to launch applications (and can configure i3 to launch them into preferred workspaces if desired)

This is what I did in stumpwm. And I had a nice macro so I could define an app's command, what key to map to, what desktop it lives on, and whether jumping to the window or pulling it to me was the default.

Karabiner Hyper key plus Alfred is The Way.

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