In yesterday’s post, we looked at how to schedule a task on your Mac using Automator and the Calendar app.

If you have Keyboard Maestro installed on your machine, you can create a Keyboard Maestro event to open the Automator file rather than schedule it on your calendar.

Quick Guide: Use a Keyboard Maestro Macro to Schedule a Task (in this case, run an Automator application)

1. Open the Keyboard Maestro editor.
2. Select File > New Macro from the menu.
3. Type a name for the Macro.
   
4. Click the New Trigger button and then click Time Trigger
    
5. Type the time that you want to macro to run in the time box.
6. In the On these days: area, click the day boxes for each day that you want the macro to execute.
7. Click the Action box to display the Actions list.
   
8. In the Actions list, double-click Open a File, Folder or Application to add it to the macro workflow.
   
9. Click the Browse button and navigate to the folder where the file that you want to run is located. This would be your Automator application file.
10. Select the file and then click Open.

That’s it! As long as the Keyboard Maestro engine is running, the macro will execute every day at the time you specified.

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