Howdy %Name%,

My wife “got the call” early on Thursday last week.

She got her “go bag”, jumped in the car and began the ~3 hour drive to the hospital where her daughter was working on having our third grand-child.

She messaged me during the drive because she realized that she forgot to bring the blanket & “onesie” that she’d bought for the baby’s first outfit and asked if I could over-night it to her or meet her ½ way.

I did a little research and found out I could get it delivered by 10:00 am for $88.32.

We’ve been very busy here at the Automator so, instead of driving 3 hours,

I chose to “buy back time” and pay to have it sent.

People often say we all have the same amount of time in the day however that is a flat-out lie!

Those of us that have can buy-back time!  

It’s one of the main reasons hire us to develop projects for them!  Whether we are buying back time for them, or helping their employees be more productive, the goal is the same!

Get more done in less time!

Now back to the reason for the onesie…  

My wife got there in time for the birth of Kenneth. 

Thankfully the delivery went well and they’re now home resting.

Now on with the show…

Easy Tweak to Add Functionality to all your scripts

Last week we released this video which showed a simple tweak we highly recommend you add this to your scripts!  I’ve come to depend on having it available!

Easily Adding Open Folder and Video link to system Tray Icon in an AHK V2 Script

Building Menus in AHK v2

A Hero member was having troubles with building menus in AutoHotkey.  Isaias led a short tutorial on building menus which we extracted here.

Learning Menus in AutoHotkey v2 [Excerpt from AHK Hero call]

Intro to RegEx

We put together a great email drip campaign that helps get you started with Regular Expressions.  You can watch the first video here.

5 videos from RegEx course: #1 Using RegEx101

Improving People’s Lives: Story #40

I had a call with a new client that new very little about AutoHotkey today.   I set him up with a simple function that lets him use HotStrings or Hotkeys to paste snippets of text wherever he wants it (without blanking his clipboard).

While AutoHotkey can do 8-million other things, Hotkeys & HotStrings are, by far, the lowest hanging fruit!  (Both are covered in our Intro to AutoHotkey course)

What we’re reading

• YouTube Premium Lite
• How to Recover a Deleted File: The ultimate guide
• 5 overlooked Plex Features everyone misses

AI / Chat GPT-3 News / Usage

• ChatGPT’s scheduled task feature
• Introducing Manus the general AI Agent
• Introducing 7 Sonnet in ElevenLabs Conversational AI

⚡️Productivity tips:  A HotKey a day keeps inefficiency at bay!

Most programs have built-in Hotkeys.  Make it a habit to learn one new hotkey per day!

A spot of Humor

I’m considering trying this in my local town.

Cop Shoots Cat Off Of Tree

What we utomated this week with AutoHotkey #78

In this week’s video I walk through 153 AutoHotkey scripts that we worked on over the past week.

Aroudn 14 minutes in I also go into a cool approach I did pushing my libraries into Claude.

What we Automated with AutoHotkey #78

Client’s 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 384 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
• Sleeping for hardcoded 30 seconds verse off a formula based on workload
• Using SendMessage to automate Listviews
• Example of HTML GUI with WebViewToo from GeekDude
• Custom Combinations in Hotkeys
• Removing redundant code (Functions and Loop example)
• Using Shellhooks verse creating a child window or Popup
• How to prevent cached responses when doing HttpRequest?

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

• What gets measured gets improved — Joe Glines
• If it doesn’t make dollars, it doesn’t make sense — Grandma
• If there is no wind; row — Virgil
• Automation is inevitable , and the way we embrace it will define our future. Let’s make sure it’s a future we’re proud of — Elon Musk

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Joe, Isaias, Irfan, Rizwan and staff

P.S. Remember, when we use AutoHotkey we are, in essence, “buying time”.  We take more time now to save more time later. 

Or, if you don’t have the time, our developers can typically do in an hour what might take you a week.   I know because that is why I initially hired them!  Yes, they are that good!  

Check out my calendar and schedule a meeting where we can figure out how we can help you.

Kenneth and his “big sister”