Keyboard Maestro : Macro to do quick book look up using various criteria
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1JonathonL88
Wed 14Jan2026 Any other KM users out there, can they PM me please.
Macro will be posted on the KMforum in a few days
Macro will be posted on the KMforum in a few days
2JonathonL88
Sun 25Jan2026 A beta version is ready. Please PM me if you want to try it.
3JonathonL88
This will only work on a MAC.
Anyone interested in the application, please msg me.
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Features
ALL THESE SEARCHES ARE AGAINST THE CATALOGUE OF ALL BOOKS IN YOUR ACCOUNT
TOP left of LT screen MUST BE “ALL COLLECTIONS”
Input one or more search values of at least one character.The search will try to match against all fields in your library/catalogue using an “AND” test. However you can specify Collection 1 OR collection 2. Also Tag1 OR Tag2.
A minus as the FIRST character of a field inserts a NOT into the test.
Just one single character of “-“ (minus) gives all books that are blank for that field, whilst an asterisk “*” returns all non-blank ones. See HELP for further examples.
ISBN5 Needs the 5 digits (NNNNN) section of ISBN
ie 978(or 979) -A-NNNNN- PPP-X (978-AREA-PUBLISHER-PRODUCT-CHECKDIGIT
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Example will return all books including William Shakespeare with love in the title from My_Plays collection that are in the Annex (Assumes you are using OtherCallNumber for location code).
In practice, probable love in the title and location Annex would suffice.
Anyone interested in the application, please msg me.
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Features
ALL THESE SEARCHES ARE AGAINST THE CATALOGUE OF ALL BOOKS IN YOUR ACCOUNT
TOP left of LT screen MUST BE “ALL COLLECTIONS”
Input one or more search values of at least one character.The search will try to match against all fields in your library/catalogue using an “AND” test. However you can specify Collection 1 OR collection 2. Also Tag1 OR Tag2.
A minus as the FIRST character of a field inserts a NOT into the test.
Just one single character of “-“ (minus) gives all books that are blank for that field, whilst an asterisk “*” returns all non-blank ones. See HELP for further examples.
ISBN5 Needs the 5 digits (NNNNN) section of ISBN
ie 978(or 979) -A-NNNNN- PPP-X (978-AREA-PUBLISHER-PRODUCT-CHECKDIGIT
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Example will return all books including William Shakespeare with love in the title from My_Plays collection that are in the Annex (Assumes you are using OtherCallNumber for location code).
In practice, probable love in the title and location Annex would suffice.
4JonathonL88
Better pic.
Search fields are:
Author
Title
ISBN
Collection (allows OR relation)
Tags (allows OR relation)
OtherCallNumber
Media
Fromwhere
and
ALL fields
To see better quality image in your browser, right click on the image and select Open Image in new Tab. (Thanks to Debi below).
Search fields are:
Author
Title
ISBN
Collection (allows OR relation)
Tags (allows OR relation)
OtherCallNumber
Media
Fromwhere
and
ALL fields
To see better quality image in your browser, right click on the image and select Open Image in new Tab. (Thanks to Debi below).
5DebiCates
>4 JonathonL88: Heya Jonathon, I found a little trick to see the better image. Using your browser, right click on the image and select Open Image in new Tab. At least that's how it works on Windows machine.
6JonathonL88
>5 DebiCates: Thanks. I use BRAVE browser and Open Image in new tab is definitely clearer
7Keeline
>3 JonathonL88: , I have considered getting Keyboard Maestro for some other applications (better control of my CZUR book scanner from the keyboard) so if I spring for it, I will want to learn more about your usage on LT.
James
James
