Features › The palette

A command palette with snippets and a clipboard history

⌥Space opens a palette over whatever you’re doing. It lists your macros, apps, the front app’s menu commands, quicklinks, a calculator and system commands, and it learns which row you meant when you type an abbreviation. Hold the key to act on what you’ve selected, and press → to step into a row. Snippets and the clipboard history have their own keys. Window snapping isn’t here; I left that to Raycast and Rectangle.

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What it does

You type saf and press Return.
Safari opens. Choose a row once for an abbreviation and that row comes first for it next time, whatever kind of row it is.
In Safari you type export.
A row reads File ▸ Export as PDF… · Safari. Return chooses it. ⌘↩ writes a macro with a hotkey for that menu item, so something you keep doing turns into a key in one step.
You make a quicklink called gh with a GitHub search address.
Type gh swift actors and the search opens. If nothing matches what you type, the rows are Search Google for it, Search GitHub for it and Make a macro.
You type ;addr in any app.
Your address replaces it, in any app and never in a password field. A snippet can ask for fields first (Tab moves between them), put the caret where {{cursor}} is, and fill in dates and the clipboard.
You copied a tracking number, then two other things.
Press ⌃⌥⌘V, type 1Z and press Return, and it pastes. ⌥↩ pastes as plain text, ⌘P pins a copy, and adding @safari shows only what you copied in Safari.

The clipboard history panel with a pinned row, an image row and a search query

A prompt form with a text field, a menu, a checkbox and a file field

How it works

Press ⌥Space and type part of a name. ↑ and ↓ move, ⏎ runs a row, ⌥⏎ is its second action, ⌘⏎ opens a macro in the editor.
Choose File › New Snippet (⌃⌘N), type an abbreviation and the text. It works at once.
Press ⌃⌥⌘V for the clipboard history. Both hotkeys can be changed in Settings › General.

A snippet with a field and a caret

When

Type “;hi”

Type “Hi {{ask:Name|there}},⏎⏎{{cursor}}⏎⏎Thanks, Sam”

Open in Switchboard to try it

Read the docs

Getting startedInstall Switchboard, finish the first-run Welcome, grant the two permissions it needs and run your first macro.
SnippetsType a short abbreviation and Switchboard replaces it with a longer text: fields to fill in, a caret position, the date, the clipboard.
Keyboard shortcutsEvery keyboard shortcut in Switchboard's menus and panels, and the key spec syntax used by Press keys and hotkey triggers.
Coming from TextExpander or AlfredImport snippets from TextExpander, Alfred, Raycast or macOS Text Replacements, and how their placeholders map to Switchboard's snippet tokens.