This ONE Stream Deck tip will change EVERYTHING! (No more FOLDERS!)

When I was a new streamer I got myself an Elgato Stream Deck, and Immediately got to making the BEST setup I could for my stream deck. I quickly found out that the stream decks folders were a mess and made this solution to help!

With this setup for your stream deck, you can add more button than you could ever ask for! This Hotbar Techinue for stream decks is unlike any other I have seen and it truly adds more value to the stream deck. If your new to streaming, or have been streaming for years, this hotbar could add so much more production quality for your streams.

Having the ability to add music, sound effects, scenes, sources, filters, visual effects, CTA's, open programs, and so more much, all within just two clicks makes everything you do that much more efficant!

This video was heavily inspired by great content creators such as Harris Heller, Stream Scheme, Nutty, and Gaming Careers.
#streamdeck #elgato #twitch

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[LebiDzoko]

very cool! but you also can use same technique by using "switch profile" button and create 8 (or many more) profiles

[HertWasHere]

This is pretty cool, but I can see myself run out of hotbar space on anything smaller than 32 button stream deck.

Edit: An easier way to do this would be to delete the previous/next page arrows and add just the page numbers right away. Also, you can duplicate a page with existing buttons, this might save time.

[JustPlayerDE]

Now you can Pin the hotbar icons to have them on every page, you could also use the "Auto Leave" feature for folders now which will automatically close the current folder after some time when a key was pressed.

with the auto leave feature you could even replace the hotbar with folders and make it reset itself to the "home" page after key has been pressed

[DeoxySynchro]

What an ingenius use of hotbar! I’m still using the original 15-keys stream deck and watching this makes me wanted to buy the XL for this hot key concept alone! I’m already seeing myself having dedicated page for all emulators, all fav windows app, ETS2, Sound Effects, etc.

[Cafea]

An immediate win! Just spent the last hour or so setting this up on my SD XL! Love it already! I stream, so am often toggling from one group of buttons to another, and this makes it so much more effortless to navigate! Beautiful!

[Colortiniz]

I was doing this but every "hotbar" button was its own profile. I like this approach. Very cool.

[rob]

Thank you for the great idea. I've stolen it and use a fixed set of buttons to switch between profiles. When a profile is active I underline the icon in red in the corresponding button. I've also added an on/off button to turn off the deck completely.
This stuff is great BTW.

[MatthewNOHU]

This was (or is) exactly what I was looking for to make one of the numerous Stream Decks I want to have function for more than one purpose in a single Profile. I modified the stock Default Profile with the hot bar and now have 7 pages to fill up with commands for different applications, like OBS and some of my games.

[schmidthppns]

The hotbar idea is so smart! Not having to hup 8 times to go back again’
Im subscribing, period.

[nailguitar]

Thanks mate, made a variation of this.

[elvis]

That’s super smart. Like an iPhone home screen dock, but on stream deck. I’ll be using this idea for sure! Thank you brother

[Koutouhara]

I've wanted to get a stream deck for a while because I've just been doing keyboard and mouse binds for things which is just a hassle. Especially when gaming and I want to like mute my discord or something and the games don't always just let you move your mouse off the window - so you have to alt tab out or hit the win key to see your program bar.

So I'm definitely going to look into getting one of these and follow this video!~

[sigdetcdr]

Excellent!! You have really shared a great technique. Thanks!!

[EntrepreneurwithRA]

Wonderful video bro!! Keep up the excellent work. Just subscribed and liked. Can't wait to see more of your videos, especially getting better quality from a camera.

[legen_dary]

I have several profiles and some of my profiles span multiple pages and folders so I've found the best way for navigating all of those is to have a single home page with buttons that link to my different profiles which is about a dozen or so. Then every single profile has a button pinned (so it's on every page of that profile unless I override it) that takes me back to the "home" page.

[haies]

I like it. I just recently got another SD and used it to open profiles on my second SD

[brendineldridge]

Great video! Watched it b4 I got a stream deck bought the stream deck and watched this video first.

[illinnoise]

this was as 🔥idea bro thanks. you earned a like and a sub with this one.

[BubbleGreenT]

I used to have an ajazz and put the nav bar in a folder instead, you’ll have to do one extra click but you’ll have more slots for buttons of your pages and less copy pasting

[marcorobbe]

Interesting concept. With the new software this isn't needed any more. But I never have seen someone thinking so complicated. Why not making one page, adding the top row with all "switch to page xy" and then copy that page. Using the next page keys makes it so complicated ...