Re:Show HN: What if your menu bar was a keyboard-controlled ...
by pugdogdev on Saturday January 17, 2026 @01:58PM
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Ok, I will try to explain this better
The main power of this app is that I am not trying to compete with them.
I work together with them.
For example, I put my ExtraBar RayCast deeplinks into a logical menu structure so they are easy to access and remember.
Instead of opening Raycast, looking for the actions, sometimes RayCast is opened on a different screen, so I need to go back, etc.
I just put the most used action on the ExtraBar menu and use simple keyboard navigation to trigger it.
The same goes for Keyboard Maestro.
I have this Reddit post that someone posted on ExtraBar:
https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1q0aqu6/extrabar_i...
That has some explanation of how he uses it, so this may be helpful to get more usecases example
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Re:Show HN: What if your menu bar was a keyboard-controlled ...
by crazygringo on Saturday January 17, 2026 @02:49PM
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Ok that's definitely helpful. At this point I'm not really asking questions here for you to answer on HN -- just more pointing out that these are the kinds of things your site needs to explain. What this competes with vs. what it works together with is a great angle.
I assumed ExtraBar was intended to be its own all-in-one solution for executing commands. Now that you say it also works together with other utilities, that changes my perception completely.