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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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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

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

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

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 we’re reading

Don’t ignore the Power of F4 in Microsoft Excel
How to stop Windows 11 from Auto-Installing Device Drivers
5 places Incognito Mode Is Useful (and 3 where it isn’t)

AI / Chat GPT-3 News / Usage

Microsoft launched powerful AI ‘agents’ that could completely transform your workday
SWiRL: The business case for AI that thinks like your best problem-solvers
Vibecode your video: Descript’s new AI co-editor

⚡️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?

Client’s say…

“There’s no way I could have accomplished what we’ve done without your support!” — 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 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

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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!

The more RANDOM you are, the less SUCCESS you’ll have❗

AutoHotkey Newsletter

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