{"slug": "show-hn-mactap-use-knocks-on-your-macbook-as-shortcuts", "title": "Show HN: MacTap, use knocks on your MacBook as shortcuts", "summary": "MacTap, a new macOS utility, lets users trigger shortcuts by knocking on their MacBook's chassis or desk, with one, two, or three knocks mapped to actions like copy, paste, and media controls. The app supports per-edge and per-app configurations, with sensitivity and cooldown settings, and is available for download on the Mac App Store.", "body_md": "mactap turns knocks on the chassis, or on the desk under a still laptop, into shortcuts. one knock, two, three. copy, paste, accept, screenshots, media, whatever you map.\n\nthe everyday one. copy, play or pause, accept the ai suggestion. the thing you reach for all day.\n\nthe second slot. paste, next track, screenshot. one more hit, another verb.\n\nthe decisive one. undo, save, lock. knock knock knock, done.\n\none, two or three knocks on the chassis or the desk. three slots, nothing to learn.\n\neach edge gets its own actions. six slots: music on the left, work on the right.\n\nper-app rules sit on top: cursor can take accept, reject and save while everything else stays on daily. sensitivity, cooldown and ignore while typing are all in settings.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-mactap-use-knocks-on-your-macbook-as-shortcuts", "canonical_source": "https://mactap.vercel.app/", "published_at": "2026-09-08 23:42:24+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-09 00:17:38.215153+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["MacTap", "Mac App Store"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-mactap-use-knocks-on-your-macbook-as-shortcuts", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-mactap-use-knocks-on-your-macbook-as-shortcuts.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-mactap-use-knocks-on-your-macbook-as-shortcuts.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-mactap-use-knocks-on-your-macbook-as-shortcuts.jsonld"}}