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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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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!

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

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

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

5 Microsoft Excel Hacks that could blow your mind
13 Windows Keyboard Shortcuts I couldn’t live without (there were a few that I’d forgotten)
Windows Terminal can now Save Your Sessions
Why you should get a Phone Dock for Your TV

AI / Chat GPT-3 News / Usage

5 Great prompts for AI
Claude is quietly crushing it — here’s why it might be the smartest AI yet
The Gemini App lets you edit images directly

⚡️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

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

Client’s say…

How can I pay more for this? — Kelly Coughlin

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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Joe, Isaias, Irfan, Rizwan, Denilson and staff

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!

Howdy %Name%,

You’re probably very familiar with “Marketing Automation”.

It’s been a focus of businesses for the past 15 years.

People realized:

Randomness is the enemy of Success

And that, by studying what works (and possibly more importantly what doesn’t) they can greatly increase their effectiveness of marketing.

As Dan Kennedy said: What happens randomly can be made to happen on purpose

This is why Marketing Automation has become a “must do” amongst businesses however all the same principles apply to our daily work .

When we focus on how we perform tasks we can build systems (often with AutoHotkey) that reduce the randomness that humans introduce to a process .

Using AutoHotkey is “putting logic” to your work.

You’re “systemizing” the approach which means, not only will it be done faster, but it will be done more consistently.

So I recommend you examine your workflow seeing what you do frequently.

If you’re not sure “where the time goes, you might check out our Time Tracker script.

Just remember:

What gets measured gets improved

If you’d like help transforming your process into a system, you can book a meeting with me here.

Now on with the show…

ExtraHours

Gorgeous GUIs with AutoHotkey & HTML

A few weeks back, during an AHK Hero call, GeekDude posted some WebViewToo examples using the WebViewToo class.

Isaias walked through a few of the examples which I extracted to this video.

If you’re new to classes, you should check out this Functions, Objects and Classes Course. Remember, all of our courses come with a “Double your money back” guarantee.

Learn how to create Beautiful HTML GUIS with this amazing AHK V2 library WebViewToo

Functions Should Return One Thing

Speaking of an AHK Hero Extract, last Friday Ray, an AHK Hero member, haw having an issue with our Active DPI Adjuster.

The issue turned into one of the more-common issues I see that people new to Functions / Classes have.

If you’re New to Intermediate, this is a “must watch” video for you!

It’s a wonderful learning lesson that will save you countless debugging time❗

A function should Return One Data Type – AHK Hero Extract2

Adding Custom Menu Items to your Script’s System Tray Menu

We’re (probably) all familiar with the system tray menu. But did you realize how easy it is to update/change it?

Adding some new items is easier than you think and you can see how in this video.

This is still one of my most favorite “hacks” that I came up with!

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

Improving People’s Lives: Story #45

I introduced a client of ours to Get Active Path the other day. Like me he’s often in MS Word or Excel and getting the path to those files is a pain! Of course our tool works in other programs but those two alone are such a pain that it was totally worth it for him!

How to easily get the Path of your active file with AutoHotkey