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.
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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

[@WOTBoxTV]

100% agree. Profiles allow for more flexibility and make your setup more "future proof" Profiles over pages over folders ... (I rarely use folders as they are not easily navigable)

[@LebiDzoko]

@@WOTBoxTV 100% agree

[@TheStreamWell]

@@WOTBoxTV that’s why I don’t use folders, I use endless pages. And profiles are great but they actually take longer to transition and load when you have lots (20+). So for a smoother, streamlined production with less lag time between buttons. Pages actually work better

[@Cafe655a]

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!

[@TheStreamWell]

I love it! Glad it helped!

[@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.

[@sigdetcdr]

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

[@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.

[@DeoxySynchro89]

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.

[@TheStreamWell]

Yeeeeesss!!! Embrace the hotbar! Pages for everything! Hotbars within hotbars! Possibility is endless!

[@baldy5683]

This is great! Thank you

[@baldy5683]

You might have answered this already but why go to the trouble of moving the page arrows in the first place if you could just use the page buttons?

[@JohnVuongnow]

This is an amazing idea!!!!!

[@rob70]

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.

[@GrantSoundsGood]

incredible idea

[@schmidthppns]

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

[@TheStreamWell]

Thank you! It’s honestly sooo handy! It streamlines everything!

[@schmidthppns]

@@TheStreamWell implemented it right away😎🥸

[@elvis0609]

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

[@Colortiniz]

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

[@brendineldridge1618]

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

[@TheStreamWell]

Thank you! Glad you like the idea!

[@BoxSamma]

Very smart idea

[@haies09]

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

[@TheStreamWell]

Ouuuuu that’s a smart idea! I use mine to swap profile on my foot pedals, that way I get more that 3 pedals!

[@awright18]

Nice video!

[@theleftperson]

i don't use a stream deck but I will definitely use it if I ever get one, good video!

[@TheStreamWell]

They are so handy for any PC user and thank you!

[@SQUNTO]

this is bigbrain! good vid

[@TheStreamWell]

I thought so too! Thanks for the feedback!

[@legen_dary42]

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.

[@TheStreamWell]

Very similar to my hotbar idea, but instead of a singular home page I can have multiple. Combining profiles, folders and a hotbar can essentially link every page together easily. My main idea is to skip the homepage entirely as that’s 1 extra button press for every action I do if I swap pages

[@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!~

[@TheStreamWell]

Having a stream deck makes life so much easier on PC! So I highly recommend it!

[@haies09]

I agree, SD’s make life easier. The SD+ version is nice but I hope they release a XL version, this way we can have maybe 8 dials and a extra row or keys 😊

[@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

[@robertjones1081]

You can do that with profiles

[@2684dennis]

if you have youre software open, and you right click a button, in the dropdown there is a option "move to folder" and you click on it, do you have any idea where it goes?

[@TheStreamWell]

I’m not to sure, I’d have to look into it and see! If I figure it out I’ll let you know!

[@aquaticcactus9897]

it should just create a folder in place of the current icon you have selected. when moving to a folder, all you are doing is creating a streamdeck folder. if you wanted to find a copy of that folder it should be under your streamdecks file location on whichever drive you installed it on.

[@NickleNinja2]

dumb question but do you need to set the forward and back buttons at all if you just set pages? you can move to any page in between right ?

[@TheStreamWell]

Nope no need for forward or back, unless you include more pages than you can have buttons in your hotbar

[@FPChris]

Can a button be held down as a SHIFT key or ALT key? Like in Blender you hold shift + the middle mouse button to pan. Releasing the shift to rotate.

[@sphchurch]

I set mine up with a home button on each page. I then have application choices on the first page. Press Microsoft takes me to a page that gives me choice of excel, word or PowerPoint. So I press the word button goes to page of word commands. I’m not sure what advantage I could gain from a hot bar? Still hard to wrap my head around.

[@TheStreamWell]

It’s mainly for speed based actions more so than ease of use. Basically a permanent hotbar allows you to essentially reach any of the potential 190+buttons to be accessed in just two clicks, one to the hot bar and one to the button wanted. Folders do work but as someone who has 50+ sound effects as well as screen effects and changes, a hotbar works much faster and stream lined for production purposes

[@Michael64633]

I would like to shut down my computer with one button press....Can you please share how?? Thanks for the information. Good Ideas! I don't do gaming but just use mine to open and close apps which I am still learning...Thanks again.

[@marcorobbe9003]

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 ...

[@TheStreamWell]

Yeah recent changes have definitely made this technique irrelevant, but for me it still works great. And I’m not sure I understand your concept?

[@TheStreamWell]

Oh nvm, I understand. I use the next page keys instead of (x) page key because you actually can’t remove the next page key at all. It has to be there, so instead of wasting space I use it as the page, hope that clarifies

[@lamarkvaughn2452]

I guess im too late, not getting the number page page, tried using the page indicator but its not giving the page assignment box under title. using stream Deck 6.6.0 (20583) is the latest version. maybe the feature was removed?

[@CRE8VALU]

1:09 were you aware that you can export (save/backup) your configuration onto your computer disk and later import it back into the same or different Streamdeck?

[@TheStreamWell]

Ya sadly I was naive and didn’t 🥲

[@user-fb4bk6ku9i]

How do you shut down with one button press?

[@haies09]

Think there is a windows plugin that have shutdown, restart etc…

[@santiagosalinasuy]

Liked it

[@TheStreamWell]

Thank you!

[@radofenix]

can you share your profile?

[@brucelevy]

Awesome. Folders be gone.

[@TheStreamWell]

I use them for certain groups but for the most part I love my hotbar! Glad you like it!