Howdy,

I’m pretty sure I’ve spoken to more AutoHotkey users on the planet than anyone else. 

We share a lot of similarities.  Here are a few to see if you’d describe yourself similarly

• You hate wasting time!
• You love solving problems
• Your curious and self-motivated
• Your pragmatic & focus on practical solutions
• You’d rather ask for forgiveness than permission
• You care more about “getting things done” than getting the credit
• You are a long-term thinker often sacrificing immediate solutions to save more time later

One thing you’re not is lazy

It’s this last one as to where I want to try and get you reconsider your mindset.

I think a lot of people don’t get help because they think having someone help would be a sign of being lazy or “cheating”.

Over the past 11 years I’ve spent countless hours on online calls with AutoHotkey experts like Maestrith, Isaias Baez, GeekDude, Irfan, Jean Lalonde, Tank, etc. and have made enormous gains in my programming knowledge by watching how they solve problems with AutoHotkey.

When I was working daily with Maestrith I realized people with their knowledge could

develop tools in hours that would take me weeks

And not only would their tools be more robust, but they would also be written in a way that made changes & updates easier to apply.

I also realized that, by working with them to develop the tools, it was far easier to expand my programming skills because they were working on a project that I was familiar with.
Many times we’d be covering a topic and I’d see code on the screen I didn’t understand and ask them to explain it to me. 

These mini-sessions would leap-frog me forward in my skills and abilities.  We do offer tutoring sessions and not nearly enough of you are taking us up on it.
I guarantee you’ll experience enormous growth when we work with you on your code!

Its one of the core things we do during the AutoHotkey Hero calls.  We start off each call by asking if anyone needs help with something.

Now on with the show…

Easily summarize Local media files

Isaias has been updating our Chat GPT API class.  I realized they had incorporated their Whisper model which does an amazing job transcribing audio.  It reminded me of a conversation I was having with a client/friend of mine that works in Market Research.  

He’ wanted to be able to, easily, summarize his meetings.   Initially he also wanted to, somehow, use AutoHotkey to record the call (probably automating OBS) however I realized, if we just start by using an Audio/Video file, we could easily get something started for him.   While this is a work in progress, you can check out what we got done so far in this video.

Great AI Tool for Sumarizing videos and Extracting Learnings

AutoHotkey Resource Finder

Many of our clients will reach out and ask us if we have a video, script, link on a given topic.
I realized, it wouldn’t be that hard to create a tool that would put together many of our resources.  I also realized we could add both v1 and v2 AutoHotkey help from Documentation.
We created the-Automator Resource finder which has been a huge hit!  You can check out how the tool works in this video.

Super helpful AutoHotkey Resource Finder

What would you do with the above tool❓

Add a CoPilot Key to your Keyboard

Microsoft is up to their usual shenanigans.   In Windows 11 they had innitialy added a built-in Hotkey (Windows+C)  however later they decided to remove it (I guess they want to sell more keyboards?
In this video I show how easy it is to add it back with a hotkey.

How to Create your own CoPilot Hotkey without buying a new Keyboard

Improving People’s Lives: Story #7

Last week we had a call with an amazing AutoHotkey developer that was partially sight impaired.  He was doing amazing work but needed some help nudging his tool to be more robust for other users.
By the end of the call I we were able to greatly improve his code’s efficiency and reliability plus level him up!

What we’re reading

• How to Add Checkboxes in Excel
• Big brother is Slowing You Down in your new cars
• How to Speed Up Your Workflow in MS Word
• 13 cool uses of an Old Android Phone

AI / Chat GPT-3 News / Usage

• Try Google Search Labes SGE for search
• Compilation of What ChatGPT Code Interpreter can do
• Create Shareable Apps in Seconds with AI – Introducing Poe Previews

15 INSANE Use Cases for NEW Claude Sonnet 3.5! (Outperforms GPT-4o)

⚡️Productivity tips: Plan Sprints!

We all know we can’t “run” at full speed all day.   We can, however, intermix short bursts throughout our day.   Schedule yourself to have “ sprints ” where you crank out small tasks by working feverishly!

A spot of Humor – “The Internet” speech from the IT Crowd

Whoever wrote this definitely worked in Corporate America!  I can say truthfully there would be a lot of people that would believe this!

The Internet Speech | The IT Crowd

What we utomated this week with AutoHotkey #52

This week I start out showing how I almost died Sunday then cover 75 AHK scripts we worked on in this video.

What we automated with AutoHotkey #52

Testimonial

I am so thankful for all you are doing to help us in this conversion and our mission to produce a solid product. — Stephanie Holland

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 282 hours of recordings teaching AutoHotkey that is exclusive to AHK Hero members❗

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

• Sliders– Index/Bookmarks and updating COM object while dragging
• Using Tabs in a GUI and a Statusbar– Weird breaking of GUI
• Working with DLLs in v2
• Pausing DropBox to avoid Files being locked when using FileAppend
• Making Functions in scripts available by creating a COM object
• Center text in a GUI (with one line)
• KeyWait (watching for keypress to be let go)

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

• I will always hire a lazy person to do a hard job, because they will always find an easy way to do it — Bill Gates
• Whatever Your Mind Can Conceive and Believe, It Can Achieve — Napoleon Hill
• Decisions without actions are worthless — Dan Kennedy
• S.Y.S.T.E.M. Save Your Self Time Energy & Money

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P.S. The intro about not being lazy enough is % serious. 

I’m so confident that you will be blown-away by our support I’m willing to give a full refund to anyone that can honestly say were not 100% satisfied during a tutoring session. 

So don’t wait.  Reply to this email and let’s figure out a time to level you up❗