I have historically set quick capture to ctrl-shift-space on all my Macs. I’m just setting up a new Mac and for some reason finding that I can’t set this shortcut:
When I click to “record shortcut” in settings, it just doesn’t respond to that combination. I can set it to various other things fine, but not that.
Any ideas why this might be? Assuming it’s not a limitation in more recent versions of Drafts, any ideas how I can debug it?
I don’t see any obvious actions happening on my system when I press that combo, so it’s not obvious that something else is intercepting it.
Not sure when, but I believe macOS started marking that as a reserverd shortcut. Not sure in what version, or what it’s reserving it for, but I don’t think it allows it.
It still works on all my prior Macs, so I quickly spelunked in the preferences and found that exporting and re-importing with defaults read/write works just fine on a new Mac, running the latest Tahoe and Drafts.
For anyone else who wants to do this in the future, the format of this preference value is a Drafts-internal binary object (NSKeyedArchiver archive of an SRShortcut object), so not easily human-readable, but this incantation should just set this shortcut:
