h@llo.ai - Getting Started
- To get started you need to assign the predefined action "h@llo.ai - Show Customizable AI Assistant" to any trigger in BetterTouchTool (e.g. to a keyboard shortcut)
Next you need to configure at least one AI API that shall be used. BetterTouchTool does not itself offer any AI services - you need to use an external provider like OpenAI, Anthropic or some local model.
- Retrieve an API key from your provider, if you need help have a look here: Retrieve API Key
- Select the API type & model and enter the API Key
- Note: When using gpt-5 models, add these extra parameters - otherwise they'll be too slow: {"reasoning_effort": "low", "verbosity": "low"}
Now you could already launch your AI Assistant, it will immediately be able to answer your questions:
To make it more useful, select some of the tools and context options in , e.g. make it able to run shell scripts or apple scripts.
Here is an example assistant that you can import which has a lot of automation permissions - make sure you have a good backup system in place because in theory this assistant can do everything to your system.
This example assistant shows when pressing cmd+opt+ctrl+C
... more coming later today, come to https://community.folivora.ai for discussion.