What you’ve just seen is my Work configuration, however, BetterTouchTool supports multiple configurations which means I can switch out my Touch Bar buttons depending on the situation. The Touch Bar is the Christmas Tree, and BetterTouchTool is the decoration. It’s like decorating a Christmas Tree…īuying the Christmas Tree is nice, but the tinsel, lights and chocolate is what makes it special. Then finally, I’ve got a Play/Pause button, a Coffee Break button for quickly locking my laptop or putting it to sleep and a clock. You’ve then got your standard volume and brightness sliders which I find myself using more often than any other button on the TouchBar. It also has a handy hidden feature - when you tap it, it skips to the next song! The next bar display’s my currently playing Spotify song and artist name. These are the three programs I find myself switching to most often when I’m working. The initial three buttons switch to or launch Finder, Sublime Text and Chrome. But these buttons aren’t the important bits. The next button is the BetterTouchTool logo and this hides your custom Touch Bar temporarily. It looks pretty different huh? Each element of my Touch Bar is specifically tailored to my workflow.įirstly, I chose to keep the Esc button just because I often find myself using it when coding etc. You may be wondering at this point, if I’m telling you that the Touch Bar is useless, how could a program possibly resolve that? Well, say hello to BetterTouchTool. As it turns out, reaching your hands above the keyboard when typing to complete an action that can be easily done with a simple and quick keyboard shortcut, isn’t efficient or productive, even though it may look otherwise.
I won’t go into too much detail, but the Touch Bar just isn’t practical. It did (as some people estimated), turn out to be a massive gimmick.ĭon’t get me wrong - you still get a ‘that’s really cool’ comment every now and then, but I think that’s more based off of not many people owning one rather than it actually being good or useful. I bought my MacBook Pro back in 2016 - when most people thought the Touch Bar would be ‘ revolutionary’ and ‘ the next step in laptop innovation’! Unfortunately, the Touch Bar turned out to be none of those things. Ironically, the only useful feature of the base TouchBar - emojis! Don’t judge a book by it’s cover
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