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AHK News 2025-05-15 Master Your Mind: What Your Conscious & Subconscious Excels At❗

AutoHotkey Newsletter Howdy,

The following quote is a favorite of mine and is attributed to Henry Ford

Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t; you’re usually right

It came to my mind when I was listening one of my favorite books The New Psycho Cybernetics.

The book was discussing how important it is to realize that your conscious mind is great for actually doing things but your subsconscious (which you can’t directly focus) is what solves problems, is creative, etc.

It’s why we often solve problems when we’re not thinking about them.

And why “writer’s block” can be a real thing because you’re “trying to be creative”.

I extracted this fascinating clip

Now on with the show…

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regexWorked

I’ll have to admit it.  I’ve been there!

Don’t forget, we have an amazing Regular Expressions course that comes with a Double your money back Guarantee!

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Using our Claude API Class

During a Hero call I asked Isaias to walk through some of the basics for using our Claude API Class.

You can see the extracted video here.

Using the AutoHotkey Claude API Class – AHK hero extract
Using the AutoHotkey Claude API Class - AHK hero extract

Tips for working with AHK Classes

Isaias was giving our team some great tips on working with Classes.  You can check out the recording here.

If you’re new to classes our Intro to Functions, Objects, and Classes course is a great place to start.

Tips on Developing with Classes in AutoHotkey
Tips on Developing with Classes in AutoHotkey

Improving People’s Lives: Story #49

One client we’re doing a lot of work on their computers.  They have a total of 12 computers and we decided it would help if we created a “fake drive” so all of the paths would be the same (for them as well as for us.)

Now all the paths are the same regardless what computer we’re on (and all of this under DropBox so we no-longer need to sync files either)

What we’re reading

AI / Chat GPT-3 News / Usage

⚡️Productivity tips:  Excel

Did you know you can easily select the entire column by hitting Ctrl+Space in Excel?

A spot of Humor:

This was a great clip with Don Rickles, Denzel Washington and David Letterman.  He was amazingly sharp at his age❗

Don Rickles Roasts Denzel Washington & Dave | David Letterman
Don Rickles Roasts Denzel Washington & Dave | David Letterman

What we utomated this week with AutoHotkey #86

In this week’s episode, I walk through some of my recovery process after losing my Windows install and having to “start from scratch”.

Thankfully much of my files were backed up but there were lots of little things that I work on that I lost (but I’m making a list)

What we Automated with AutoHotkey #86
What we Automated with AutoHotkey #86

Client’s say…

How can I pay more for this? — Kelly Coughlin

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 414 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
  • There’s no “click” method on the Edit field. What do you do?
  • Script runs fine with one Tool but not with another (usually the environment)
  • CALL Variable for keeping track of the status of your scripts
  • Preferences / Trigger Class – assigning a hotkey
  • Updates to OBS Text Banner

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

  • Work harder on yourself than you do on your job — Jim Rohn
  • Create exceptional Opportunities for Exceptional People — Dan Kennedy
  • 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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P.S. The intro to this newsletter is a really important point to understand.

The sooner you realize that your conscious, and subconscious mind have different strengths, the sooner you can user your brain more wisely!

AutoHotkey News 2025-05-08 I finally found someone smarter than Isaias

Howdy %First_Name%,

AutoHotkey Newsletter

Anyone that has watched one of our YouTube videos, or taken one of our courses, can tell that Isaias, our lead developer & trainer, is very smart.

But I found someone smarter!

Not only smarter but he’s a better coder too!

Who is it you ask?

It’s Isaias and I (working together)

To be fair, it could also have been Isaias and anyone else on our team.

Or even Isaias and anyone from the AHK hero group.

What we’ve realized is the interaction between people (and sometimes with AI) is always better than anyone on their own.

We just “think differently” when talking to others.

It’s one of the fundamental reasons we created the AHK Hero group.

Working through problems with other people always leads to more options / answers.

Our Hero program is perfect for it but, if that’s not your thing, be sure you find someone to bounce ideas off of.

Trust me, it will help you more than you realize!

Now on with the show…

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WhatCould-possibly-go-wrong

So true… This is one of the main reasons people hire us to automate their tasks.

Amazingly Easy Way to fix timing issues on your Script

Are you having timing issues with your AutoHotkey script?  If so, check out this video where we walkthrough how you can use SetWinDelay to adjust the timing of all but two of the 48 WinFunctions.

How to Adjust timing for many AutoHotkey Win Functions
How to Adjust timing for many AutoHotkey Win Functions

How to Compile AutoHotkey v2 scripts

A subscriber watched our video on how to compale v1 scripts but wanted to know about AHK v2.  We created this video which walks through the basics AND Advanced settings for compiling your scripts.

How to Compile AutoHotkey v2 Scripts
How to Compile AutoHotkey v2 Scripts

⚕️Doctors need to see this Video on AI & Reporting❗

I’ve been subscribed to MedCram since early Covid.

I was pleasantly surprised when I saw this video where they walk through how they’re using AI (and share their prompts)

Artificial Intelligence Leveraged to Write Medical Documentation in Seconds Saving Hours
Artificial Intelligence Leveraged to Write Medical Documentation in Seconds Saving Hours

If you’re a doctor (or play one on TV) remember we create custom AI tools to help you work smarter, not harder.

You can check my calendar here and book a call

Ever wonder what actually is happening from the Sleep command?

I mention fairly regularly that I’m not a programmer and have zero interest in being one.

Having said that I know an awful-lot about programming but had never “dug into” what the computer does when you run the “sleep” command.

This video goes deeper than I’d ever want to know but figured I’d pass it along for those of you that are curious.

What Happens When a Program Calls Sleeps?
What Happens When a Program Calls Sleeps?

Understanding what the < > do in #Includes

During an AHK Hero call I asked Isaias to explain what the Less than “<” and Greater than “>” characters do when you refer to them with the #Include directive.

As usual he did a bang-up job!  Check it out in this video!

Understanding Ways to Include files in AutoHotkey v2 – AHK Hero Extract

Understanding Ways to Include files in AutoHotkey v2 - AHK Hero Extract

Improving People’s Lives: Story #47

One of our clients has a very-complicated licensing model.   Their software has over twenty “automations”, each one representing a separate automation that they sell for thousands of dollars.

They sell “combinations of automations” at different prices (for instance buy any 5 automation for $1,200 per automation, buy any 10 automations for $1,000 each or buy all 22 for $700 each.

And, for each sale, we need to keep track of which automations they purchased.

Thankfully, our new hire Denilson, has PHP experience so we created our own API Endpoint so our scripts can easily check / validate licensing.

Now we’ll be able to let the customers provide their email address and order number and check what licenses they have paid for!

What we’re reading

AI / Chat GPT-3 News / Usage

⚡️Productivity tips:  Jump to a line!

Quickly jump to a line by hitting Control+G in most editors

A spot of Humor: Hilarious Cat Story

This is a laugh-out-loud story!  It sounds like a “Three’s company” episode.

Here’s my cat joke from a million years ago
Here’s my cat joke from a million years ago lol #nationalpetday #standupcomedy #shorts #cat

What we utomated this week with AutoHotkey #85

This week I show 130 AutoHotkey scripts we worked on in this episode of what we Automated this week with AutoHotkey.

What we Automated with AutoHotkey #85
What we Automated with AutoHotkey #85

Client’s say…

“I appreciate all the work you guys are doing for me!  I look forward to it and it keeps me excited about my work — otherwise I would likely get bored or burned out or both.” — Danny H. (Radiologist)

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 411 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
  • Functions: Using Lambdas (Anonymous Functions) / FatArrows in v2
  • When the Order of #Includes Matter
  • Work through Merge Similar Files script
  • Sharing one patch to multiple / different repositories
  • Best Practices for Function Naming and Structure

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

  • If every request is a five alarm fire, it’s your house that’s gonna go up in flames — Amy Landino
  • Learn a HotKey a day to keep inefficiency away! — Joe Glines
  • What gets measured gets improved

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Joe, Isaias, Irfan, Rizwan, Denilson and staff

P.S. The intro to this newsletter very well may be self-serving however it is also 100% the truth!  Most weeks Isaias will get stuck on something and ask for my “help”.  Even though he’s Far more advanced than I am, when he explains the problem to me we always find a solution.

I’d say 70% of the time he solves it himself while explaining it to me but, had he not been talking to me, he would not have gotten to the solution on his own.

The “Rubber Duck” method can help, but interacting with another person is best!

AHK News 2025-05-01 The Harsh Truth: Most of What You Create Isn’t Unique

AutoHotkey Newsletter

Howdy,

I was chatting with my good friend Ryan Wells about how people have difficulty seeing the repetitiveness in what they do as mentioned in last week’s newsletter intro.  He proposed the idea of how a custom baker makes personalized cakes.

Because the baker has his client in mind, and is changing the frosting and design on top, they view every cake as “% unique”.

Yet 99% of the ingredients and work that goes into the cake are IDENTICAL to the last one they made!

They also use the same oven, cook it for nearly the same amount of time, and use the same pans, hot-pads, delivery boxes etc.

So probably over 99% of the effort that goes into making the cake is identical to other cakes.

The differences, while they seem large to the human eye, are very small from the perspective of a task and training someone (or something) to re-create it.

My question to you is:

What are your “custom cakes“❓

What work do you do repeatedly that you think is vastly different however, in reality, is 99% the same.

What “looks different” but, in reality, is the same thing with a different colored frosting?

Whatever that thing is: you should be able to automate a lot of it!

If you’d like some help identifying the repeatable things, look at my calendar and pick a time to review❗

Now on with the show…

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tasks

Binding Parameters to a Function

During the AHK hero calls we’ve been teaching people the many benefits of using Functions.  It reminded me of this video where Isaias discusses how and why to Bind Parameters to a Function.

You Won’t Believe How Easy It Is to Bind Parameters to a Function in AutoHotkey
You Won’t Believe How Easy It Is to Bind Parameters to a Function in AutoHotkey

Compiling AutoHotkey v2 Scripts

A YouTube subscriber watched a video we put together several years ago about compiling AutoHotkey v1 scripts but asked about V2.  While there isn’t a big difference, we realized there are some other things we could cover so we created this video showing many of the options available to you when you compile in v2.

How to Compile AutoHotkey v2 Scripts
How to Compile AutoHotkey v2 Scripts

Advanced lesson on monitoring Protocols and analyzing your Network Traffic

Wireshark is a crazy powerful, free, network protocol analyzer that captures and inspects data packets traveling through a computer network in real time.  It’s an essential tool for network troubleshooting, security analysis, and understanding how applications and protocols actually communicate on networks.

Unfortunately, because it is so powerful, it is tough to learn.

I watched this video and was able to get a decent grasp of how to use it.

Wireshark Tutorial for Beginners | Network Scanning Made Easy
Wireshark Tutorial for Beginners | Network Scanning Made Easy

Check out this new Clipboard Editor

Don’t forget to check out Jean Lalonde’s new Quick Clipboard Editor. It’s a great tool that you didn’t realize you need! You can get an idea of hit’s capabilities in this video.

What’s a Clipboard Editor—and Why Is Everyone Talking About It?
What’s a Clipboard Editor—and Why Is Everyone Talking About It?

What we’re reading

AI / Chat GPT-3 News / Usage

⚡️Productivity tips:  Easy Macro Access in Office

Alt + F8: Open the “Macro” dialog box in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, allowing you to run or create macros.

A spot of Humor:

Harrison Ford Tells The GREATEST Joke of All Time! BROCCOLI?
Harrison Ford Tells The GREATEST Joke of All Time! BROCCOLI?

Client’s say…

“There’s no way I could have accomplished what we’ve done without your support!” — 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 402 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
  • Using a SetTimer verse a Loop for a Tooltip
  • Checking to see if the computer is “online“
  • Functions: Using Lambdas (Anonymous Functions) / FatArrows in v2
  • When the Order of #Includes Matter
  • Work through Merge Similar Files

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

  • Decisions without actions are worthless — Dan Kennedy
  • Success comes from failure. Not from memorizing the right answers. — Donald Trump
  • Fire fast; Hire slow — Dan Kennedy
  • Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree and I’ll spend the first 4 sharpening the axe — Abraham Lincoln

AHK Newsletter⏩SHARE WITH A FRIEND⏩

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

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Joe, Isaias, Irfan, Rizwan and staff

P.S. It’s super-easy to not realize much of what we do is repetitive.   I think humans are hard-wired to think that what we do is “unique” (which helps our self-esteem) however the vast majority of what we do is repeatable (or everything would cost a zillion dollars).

The sooner you can realize that, the sooner you’ll be spotting what you can, and should, automate!