It is so limited, and you will quickly wish “I had more buttons”. I would not recommend the 6 button model. Even though you can expand the 15 button model with folders and Profiles (more on that below), you can have many more 1-press options with the 32. I am happy with the 15-button model, but if I were to go back in time I would probably purchase the 32.
The 15-button model (this is the one I have). The Stream Deck currently comes in 3 different sizes: These are just a few examples but as you can imagine, the possibilities are endless.
Morning/Evening startup & shutdown routines.
#My tomato timer stops when i am on another window windows#
Set up windows and apps exactly how you want them for specific purposes (examples: Email processing, writing, digital decluttering, podcast recording, etc.).Start and display a mini-countdown timer or Pomodoro.Initiate keyboard shortcuts in any app (so you don’t need to remember them).Control Zoom & MS Teams (camera, mute/unmute, sharing, recording, leaving, etc.).Here are some examples of the productivity things you can do with a Stream Deck, and remember: all of these happen with a single button press: However, there’s a growing subculture that have found that even if you aren’t a gamer or a streamer (I am neither), the Stream Deck makes a great productivity tool. You can see this when you go to the manufacturer’s website, and when you do the initial setup, which we will see below, you’ll see a lot of the pre-loaded actions are for video and game streaming: things like switching cameras, soundboards, sending messages, recording clips, and that sort of thing. What Is A Stream Deck?Īs the name implies, the Stream Deck was originally designed for gamers and online streamers. In this article, I’m going to take you through the Stream Deck, how it works, what you can use it for, and what I use it for. It saves me time and even helps my focus. I purchased a 15-button Stream Deck just over a year ago to play around with, but I was skeptical: would I really find enough uses for it? Would it be worth taking up (an admittedly small amount of) space on my desk? Or would this be yet another device that would end up in The Box Of Broken Technology Dreams in my closet?Ī year in, I can report that the Stream Deck has FAR surpassed my expectations, and is a tool I use throughout the day, every single day. Each button is a mini-LCD screen, so you can customize it with any image or text you’d like, and you can have folders and multiple “Profiles” to add dozens and dozens of different shortcuts. The Stream Deck has a number of customizable buttons you can use to control almost anything on your computer.
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