During Covid as a way of reducing boredom I taught myself video editing. I those days Davinci were giving away a 'speed editor' and I found it a brilliant tool to speed up the keystrokes. Forgive the dust that shows long ago I did a video!

Now I am re-learning PWP I was wondering if there was anything similar I could create for making masks. Yesterday I bought this Vaydeer.

They do a four key version but I felt it was worth getting the nine key one. This is how I have set the keys. It took less than quarter of an hour to puzzle out how the software worked.

EDIT. I have decided to change the middle key to F5. I use that far more than Esc in PWP
The reference to Layer is because you can set up to six patterns of keys. Now to think how to use the other five. Maybe at least one I can set to do my non mask work in PWP. It will also accept macros and text to maybe I'll find ways to use it with other apps.
And further thoughts and suggestions from the PWP community are much welcomed.