Howdy,
Last week I had a call with a good friend I exchange ideas with daily.
Like me, and many other Entrepreneurs, he doesn’t have the problem of coming up with ideas.
He has the problem of “finishing-out” the ideas once he has solved the “hard stuff“.
The other day he surprised me because he spent some time outlining all those “little tedious things” that took him time to do and built an “app” to automate the process.
Now he starts his projects off automating the mundane part first, then he works on the “fun” stuff (solving the difficult problems).
Great job Ryan❗
For many people in corporate America this would seem backwards.
They look forward to doing the “mundane” because the solution is known.
I think, like Ryan and I, you love the challenge and live to find new solutions like us.
How about it❓
Am I right that you like a challenge❓
That’s what our Hero club is all about! People finding unique solutions to their problems.
Now on with the show…
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AutoHotkey System Tray Icons
Hopefully you’ve seen our previous videos about using our IconFinder to really change your AutoHotkey icons.
In this video I discuss how you can control if your AutoHotkey icons show up in the system tray area or if they are in the system tray “overflow“.
This may seem nuanced, but finding your script shouldn’t be a part-time job! 🤣
Fix AutoHotkey Icons Moving Together in System Tray area vs. the Overflow
Our AHK V2 Window Snipping tool is spectacular
We released our V2 version of our Window snipping tool a while ago but I accidentally forgot to create a video on it. It is full of amazing bells and whistles like:
- Draw Arrows
- Add Text
- Highlight Areas
- Delayed Capture
🖼️ Window Snipping Tool V2 – The Features That Make This a Must-Have tool
Improving People’s Lives: Story #95
A friend is working on growing his business. I mentioned that developing his USP (Unique Selling Proposition) is one of the most important things he can do.
I also mentioned this video and podcast explaining the concept.
How To Never Compete On Price Again 🏆 Simple USP Formula
But then I had him go to this GPT I created which helped guide him through the process and in about an hour, he had a very solid USP (the process can often take weeks❗)
📚 What we’re reading
- Google Messages features I wish I’d known sooner
- Why your funny Wi-Fi name is ruining your home network
- Your BIOS is hiding free performance tweaks
🤖 AI News that you Need to Know
- The $340,000 bonus that isn’t enough for Samsung Employees
- ChatGPT’s streaming video app helps you decide what to watch on movie night
- Firefox lets you Block All AI Features
- Nice overview video of using AI like a pro
⚡️Productivity tips:
Brian Tracy has a book entitled Eat that frog where he argues you should tackle the hardest thing first.
The intro to this Newsletter gave a great example where the “hardest thing” should be relative to what you find “hardest” to get yourself to do!
🤣 A spot of Humor:
Jim Gaffigan: How Dads Vacation
Jim Gaffigan: How Dads Vacation | Jim Gaffigan
What we 🅰utomated this week with AutoHotkey #132
In this week’s video I show you the Claude notifier we built that pops up the second your AI session finishes (no more forgetting which VS Code tab you were working in!), along with a slick new magnifier, an Alt+C color picker, and a dark mode for Automator Spy.
I also dig into the smoke tests we added to the AHK MCP server and where I think this AI + AutoHotkey combo is heading next.
What we automated with AI and AHK #132
Clients say…
This has the potential to save more time than anything we’ve done so far — Michael N. (Radiologist)
AHK Hero 🦸
Consider joining the 🦸Hero club! Members receive 25% off courses, consultations, tutoring, done for you project work, etc. Currently we have over 560 hours of recordings teaching AutoHotkey that is exclusive to Hero members❗
During this Friday’s call we’re planning to discuss:
- Help Hero Members with their Questions & Code
- Demonstrating Installing and using our AHK MCP Server
- Creating a CLI by watching your browser actions creating an HAR file
- Automator Spy– Dark mode and Inspector
- Graph inside ListView
- Using Persona Prompting in your skills and agents❓
- Using SendTo to push files to a Script
- Updates to Simple Checklist
- Using Try/Catch in your code
They also have access to exclusive & pre-released content and 3 hours a week where we help people with their automation issues (the Saturday calls are geared towards people new to Automation with AI)
🗣️ 💭 Quotable quotes
- If you have time to whine then you have time to find the solution — Dee Dee Artner
- Before you diagnose yourself with depression, first make sure that you are not just surrounded by aholes — Sigmund Freud
- Spending time with someone is more important than spending money on them — John Carlton
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P.S. If you’re like us in that you enjoy the “struggle” you should consider joining the Hero club.
It’s a fun group of people of all ages that love to solve problems and get things done!
