Howdy %Name%,

I’ve been using my tractor to expand my pond.

It had rained, which turns our clay-soil into the consistency of grease (and is just as slick), but I thought I could handle it.

Sadly I was wrong and got the tractor stuck

It was slow going & hard work but, over time, I managed to get the tractor out.

I called a friend and asked for suggestions, which gave me some decent ideas how to get “unstuck“.

It’s one of the main reasons why I created the AHK Hero club.

If you’re a Hero member and get stuck you can either ping us in our private Telegram channel
or wait for Friday or Saturday for our 3 hours of live calls where we help people work through their problems.

It’s wonderful having other people to bounce ideas off of!  You really should check it out!

The first month is 1.99.  What are you waiting for❓

If you want specific help, you can check my calendar for an available time (but note fees apply)

Now on with the show…

During an AHK Hero call last month we helped people learn how easy it is with AutoHotkey to store user preferences / data in an ini file.

You can check it out in this AHK Hero extract.

Saving preferences to an ini file – Amazing Tips & Tricks

Letting Users Choose their HotKeys

Speaking of the AHK Hero club, a member wanted some help understanding how to use our triggers class to let his users select their hotkey.

We show him just how easy it is to do in this video.

Our triggers class is very easy to use however knowing how to work with Classes really helps.

Tips on Working with our AHK v2 Triggers Class

If you’re new to classes you should check out our Functions, Objects & Classes course.

Don’t forget all our courses come with a 200% money-back guarantee

AI Fuzzy Match

During a client call with Tom, a new AHK Hero Member, we discussed his project which is being able to spot impersonators on Facebook / Instagram.

He said one thing he does, manually, is search for the person (for instance Bill Gates) and then look at their picture and see if they are trying to pass themselves off as Bill Gates.

I mentioned AI could probably do a pretty good job of that because it is the ultimate “fuzzy match” (regardless if looking at text or pictures)
but it did remind me of this video where I built a fuzzy file matcher using AI.

AI Fuzzy Match – File Search

Improving People’s Lives: Story #64

I’ve been helping friends learn how to use AI and pointing them in the right direction.
It’s hard for me to believe that some people still haven’t tried using an AI but there are a LOT of people out there❗

Are you talking with your friends / family on how to best use it %name%❓

What we’re reading

• Convert number to words in Excel
• Don’t Use Alcohol Wipes on Your Monitor or Laptop
• Linking to text fragments with a bookmarklet (thanks Ryan❗)

AI News that you Need to Know

• OpenAI and Oracle make historic cloud computing deal
• 6 AI Engineering Principles that 99% of Engineers Don’t Know
• 4 ChatGPT keyboard shortcuts

⚡️Productivity tips:  Shortcuts for Windows Explorer

• Alt+D – Select address bar
• Alt+P – Show preview pane
• Alt+Enter – View properties

A spot of Humor:  There are some doozies in here❗

Funniest Game Show Answers of All Time

What we utomated this week with AutoHotkey #103

I just released episode #103 where I dive into some of the AutoHotkey projects I’ve been tinkering with.

Everything from email mergers to audio transcription and even some AI integrations.

I share the wins, the bugs, and the “work in progress” moments that come with building tools that actually make life easier.

If you’re curious about how AHK can seriously level-up your workflow, this one’s worth a watch!

Clients say…

I had no idea you could do this with AutoHotkey — Jim F.

AHK Hero

Consider joining the AHK Hero club! Members receive 25% off courses, consultations, tutoring, done for you project work, etc.
Currently we have over 466 hours of recordings teaching AutoHotkey that is exclusive to AHK Hero members❗

You can watch 1 hour a day for a year and not repeat content! That’s a lot of AHK Learning!

During this Friday’s call we’re planning to discuss:

• Help AHK Hero Members with their Questions & Code
• Creating scripts that don’t break when shared with others
• Semantic Version :  comment/meta data + etc.
  • Gmail hack with + and .
• Action1 – auto-updating computers
• Object Oriented Programming- getting a reference to an element & reusing it
• Update to Clipster– Pasting Files
• Updates to Recently Modified Files that will save me a ton of time!
• Hotkey Loop & MsgBox issue

They also have access to exclusive & pre-released content and a 3 hours a week where we help people with their AHK issues (the Saturday calls are geared towards people new to AutoHotkey.)

️ Quotable quotes

• Learn how to calculate the future cost of your bad decisions — Joe Glines
• In God We Trust; (All others must provide data)
• Decisions without actions are worthless — Dan Kennedy

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P.S. If you are stuck and want help, we’re just a zoom call away!

And don’t forget. It’s literally one of the biggest reasons the AHK Hero club exists!