AutoHotkey News 2025-04-03 – Pay $20, walk away with $100! It must be a SCAM Right❓

AutoHotkey Newsletter

Howdy %Name%,

Imagine you get the following message from your bank:

Hello %name%,

Since you are a great client we are offering an exclusive sale to you.

For the next 5 days you can drop by and purchase $100 dollar bills for $20 each.

There are no limits and no strings attached.

My question to you %name% is:  How many $20s would you bring to your bank❓

Would you borrow from your friends & family❓

After all, it seems like a crazy deal right?

You can spend some money now and directly get back 5X?

What if that multiplier was higher❓

Would if it was 20X or 50X?

As crazy as this sounds, that is exactly what you’re doing when you learn AutoHotkey

By learning to automate your work, you are automating what used to take you, your team, your employees time!

And, when done right, you’re not only saving time your reducing the likelihood of human error!

If you want to speed-up the process of buying money, get on my calendar and we’ll figure out how we can help you!

Now on with the show…

Learn how to Master VSCode Make the switch to v2 Intro to AutoHotkey Intermediate AutoHotkey Intermediate ObjectsGUIs are Easy w/AutoHotkey Access all our Courses; Quit when you want

manually


Watch out for this Gotcha❗

A while back we were getting a list of files in a folder and ran into a weird “bug” (or so we thought.)

During an AHK Hero group Isaias explains what went wrong and what to look out for.

I excerpted the discussion which you can see here.

Building a List of Files and-or Folders in AutoHotkey v2
Building a List of Files and-or Folders in AutoHotkey v2


Easily Merging Audio or Video Files

If you have a bunch of Audio or Videio files you want concatenated together, our Media Merger is a great tool for you!

It, very quickly, merges together the media files faster than grandma hits ‘Reply All‘ on a church email chain.

Take a look at it in this video

Easily Merge Audio or Video files with Media Merger
Easily Merge Audio or Video files with Media Merger


Are you Sharing your Screen with AI❓

In this video I have Google’s Gemini model explain how Effortless Video Reducer works..

What’s really amazing is that Gemini didn’t “know” my program.  It had never seen it before and i didn’t share the source code.

This means it’s pretty darn smart!

If you’re stuck, you can share your screen and ask it for help!

Use AI to help Document your AHK Scriptsv
Use AI to help Document your AHK Scriptsv


Improving People’s Lives: Story #91

We updated our AI translator to automatically send the translation to Zoom Chat.

It’s not perfect, but it is much better and easier to use!


What we’re reading


AI / Chat GPT-3 News / Usage


⚡️Productivity tips:

In Windows Explorer you can toggle the preview view using Alt+P


A spot of Humor:  This is very accurate!

Developer VS Tester
Developer VS Tester | Developers Memes | Testers Memes | Developers fun | Tester Fun | War | Funny


What we utomated this week with AutoHotkey #91

In this week’s episode of what we automated with AutoHotkey I walk through

What we Automated with AutoHotkey #91
What we Automated with AutoHotkey #91


Client’s say…

This is a game changer and we are very Blessed to have Joe and his team working in helping us in utilizing the wonderful opportunities to grow with new technologies available  to us.

Again, thank you for all the support you give us.   — Stephanie Holland


Cartoon superhero mascot in green costume beside the bold text AHK Hero on a yellow background 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 429 hours of recordings teaching AutoHotkey that is exclusive to AHK Hero members❗

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

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

  • Whatever Your Mind Can Conceive and Believe; We can create it for you! — Joe Glines
  • Implement More and Innovate Less❗ — Joe Glines
  • The more random you are, the less success you’ll have — Dan Kennedy

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P.S. When you automate your process you’re investing in the future!

If you would like help automating your work, check out my calendar and schedule a call today!

AHK News 2025-05-22: The Best AI for writing AHK v2 Code

AutoHotkey Newsletter

Howdy %name%,

AI has come a long way since Jackie and I reviewed it 5 years ago!

It’s gone from being a novelty to something I use multiple times a day!

There are now too many AI tools out there to keep track of but the question specific for us (and you) is:

Which AI tool provides the best AutoHotkey v2 code “out of the box”❓

While not scientific I put them in the following rank order:

Up until a month ago I would have had Claude at the top however, recently, Grok has been able to deliver more often than Claude and it’s creating very advanced scripts with little nudging needed!

I should also mention that I’m a paying member of both Claude and ChatGPT.

I have created the following two custom projects in Claude which I find very helpful

The first one helps AI convert older scripts to v2.

The second one greatly reduces the amount of code that I both put it, and get out, of Claude.

I instruct Claude to use my libraries to help with my code and (most importantly) when it uses them, to refer to them with #Includes (as I’ve given it the local path to libs on my computer)

How about you❓

What’s your favorite AI tool for writing AHK V2 code❓

Now on with the show…

Learn how to Master VSCode Make the switch to v2 Intro to AutoHotkey Intermediate AutoHotkey Intermediate ObjectsGUIs are Easy w/AutoHotkey Access all our Courses; Quit when you want

notCrossPlatform


Sending Code in Telegram

In this short video we show 3 ways you can easily send your code in Telegram.   

AHK hero members love this because it let’s us review their issues very easily in our Private Telegram group AHK Membership has it’s privileges❗

Three Easy Ways to Paste Code in Telegram
Three Easy Ways to Paste Code in Telegram


Copy On Click❗

In our AI Transcribe and Summarize tool I wanted to, easily, copy the tags in an edit field to the clipboard.

This was trickier than I expected but Isaias got us there and walks us through in this video.

How to Easily Copy Edit field to the Clipboard

How to Easily Copy Edit field to the Clipboard


Fat Arrows are Easier than you think❗

A few weeks back, during a Hero call, Isaias showed us how, and more importantly when, to use Fat Arrows.

It was a great clip so I extracted it and share it in this video

⚡ AutoHotkey v2 =ᐳ Fat Arrows That Supercharge Your Scripts❗
⚡ AutoHotkey v2 =ᐳ Fat Arrows That Supercharge Your Scripts❗


Improving People’s Lives: Story #50

Our client had ~65 medical terms that were lacking what they were associated with.

So I created a project in claude all of which used the same prompt and asked for a bulleted list of output.

In about 10 minutes I had it all done with great reports that will take very little editing.


What we’re reading


AI / Chat GPT-3 News / Usage


⚡️Productivity tips:

In Microsoft Outlook you can mark an email as being “unread” by hitting   Ctrl+U


A spot of Humor:

I remember seeing this Brady Bunch clip when I was a kid.

Yes; you can be “too efficient”

Being too Efficient

Being too Efficient


What we utomated this week with AutoHotkey #87

This week I walk through 91 AutoHotkey scripts we worked on last week with AutoHotkey.

87 What we Automated with AutoHotkey #87
87 What we Automated with AutoHotkey #87


Client’s say…

The Automator is an amazing resource I use it weekly. — David Burk


Cartoon superhero mascot in green costume beside the bold text AHK Hero on a yellow background 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 417 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
  • Sharing one patch to multiple / different repositories in GIT
    • Getting a list of Files but not folders Recursively
    • Performance difference Pushing items into a list (as object verse String)
  • Using your own compiled script to launch AHK file; the order of parameters matters!
  • Debugging an executable
  • Binding a Parameter to a function
  • Notifyv2 / Get Active Path and DPI
  • FileLock Variable for keeping track of the status of your scripts

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

  • Whatever Your Mind Can Conceive and Believe, It Can Achieve — Napoleon Hill
  • Create exceptional Opportunities for Exceptional People — Dan Kennedy
  • If it doesn’t make dollars, it doesn’t make sense — Grandma

AHK Newsletter⏩SHARE WITH A FRIEND⏩

Do you know someone that would benefit from learning useful automation tips like the gems in today’s issue?  Take a second and forward this newsletter and bask in the glow of their undying gratitude.  Was this email forwarded to you?

Sign up for this Newsletter here.  We never share your email with anyone.  Ever!


The-Automator

Joe, Isaias, Irfan, Denilson and staff


P.S. Are you struggling with AI❓  We regularly discuss best practices during our AHK hero calls.  You should check out the program! It’s an amazing deal!