Introducing Smart Layers
Update, May 2024: Smart Layers is now in general availability, included with Keymapp. You can read more at https://zsa.io/smart, or read below. Thanks to everyone who helped us test the feature in the Beta!
Switch to Photoshop, and the "Photoshop" layer on your ZSA keyboard automatically activates. Click into Fortnite, and now your "Game" layer is suddenly active.
Of course, you can also manually drop to layer 0 if you need to do some typing in Photoshop (or Fortnite, or whatever). And then, when you want to get back to the dedicated layer for that app or game, you can just tap a new key called "Smart Layer Trigger". Smart Layers then does the right thing and activates whatever layer is mapped to that app or game.
And then, it's easy to see your shortcuts and mappings when you're in a given app — just set Keymapp to be "always on top" or tuck it in a corner of your screen, and switch to the app. The right layer just activates, and it's easy to refer to it.
This makes it much easier to create and use dedicated, highly efficient layers for the applications and games you use most. You'll never have to remember to activate them — you'll just have to worry about learning them and optimizing them over time.
