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Howdy %Name%,

I was listening to a seminar and heard this great quote:

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way — Abraham Lincoln

This is one of my core beliefs and I’m betting it resonates well with you also.

It’s one of the reasons people come to use AutoHotkey.

AutoHotkey users are people that “get things done”!

It’s one of the reasons everyone in the AHK hero club get’s along so well together.

We know there isn’t just one solution, there are many! And the “best one” is more about the person developing the script than it is about the problem itself.

We always make sure the solution we propose is “within reach” of the developer.

As I tell our clients for our “done for you” work, you determine what needs to be done and we’ll “get you there”.

Mastering Mental Resilience: The Art of Unshakable Strength

I remember Napoleon Hill talked a lot about doing what is hard.

I decided to create an LLM Podcast on this topic which you can listen to here.

They discuss how Resilience isn’t something you’re born with; it’s something you develop.

Now on with the show…

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Advanced Hotkeys & Key Combinations

Here’s an extract from our AHK hero call last week.

We discussed how to create advanced hotkeys using very interesting key-combinations and how easy it is to add more when you think you’re running out.

Advanced Key Combination Hotkeys – AHK Hero Extract

Cool alternative to Hotkeys & HotStrings

As I mentioned above, during the AHK hero call we covered some advanced Hotkeys.

It reminded me of this video where we showed how powerful the InputHook is.

Discover the Ultimate User Input Hack! So freakin cool❗

Updates to Quick Clipboard Editor

Jean Lalonde, author of Quick Access Popup, released an update with some very cool features to Quick Clipboard Editor. You can check them out in this video.

This Friday Jean is going to attend the AHK hero call to give a deeper-dive and answer questions.

Quick Clipboard Editor v3 – More editing power with Scintilla

Great Tips for Working with Code and AI

I was watching a video from Open AI and had an epiphany that I then talked through with Isaias in this video. If you’re using AI to help you code, you need to see this!

Cool tips and concepts for working with Code and AI

Improving People’s Lives: Story #42

One of our clients is crazy busy. In order to save her time, I went through and pre-populated Prompt Assistant to provide relevant Bookmarks, Text Snippets, and Links to Zoom meetings.

What we’re reading

MCP-Desktop-Automation with AutoIt
Don’t Delete Empty Rows manually in Excel (or just use our XL function library)
How to Copy Text to Your Computer using Google Lens
Most common “gotchas” when starting-out with AutoHotkey

AI / Chat GPT-3 News / Usage

Open AI updated the image creation capabilities (and it’s amazing!)
GPUs go biological lab-grown, living neuron compute for AI applications
Reconcile Your Finances with ReconXI
This multi-view diffusion model transforms 2D images into immersive 3D videos

⚡️Productivity tips: MS Word

In MS Word you can use Ctrl + Shift + C to Copy formatting (use Ctrl + Shift + V to paste it)

A spot of Humor

Sometimes my dogs give me the same problem as seen here

Monk Jackhammer Scene

What we utomated this week with AutoHotkey #80

Another heavy client-focused week. This week we had 114 AutoHotkey scripts which I walk through in this video.

What we automated with AutoHotkey #80

Client’s say…

I’m astonished at what we’ve done with my reports! — Michael N. (Radiologist)

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 390 hours of recordings teaching AutoHotkey that is exclusive to AHK Hero members❗

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

Help AHK Hero Members with their Questions & Code
Jean Lalonde demonstrates updates to Quick Clipboard Access
Weird character in Microsoft Edge Title
Using SendMessage to automate Listviews
Using Shellhooks verse creating a child window or Popup
After using a Win command, what you DON’T need to provide
When you have an issue that requires you to restart your script

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
Decisions without actions are worthless — Dan Kennedy
Excuses are simple lies we first tell ourselves then others — Joe Glines
Soon companies will have 2 employees: 1 man 1 dog. The man is there to feed the dog. The dog is there to keep the man from messing with the AutoHotkey script — Joe Glines

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P.S. As I mention in the intro, we’re amazing at implementing! We’ve yet to have a challenge that we cannot solve.

If you’re struggling with something why not look at my calendar and book a call.

Howdy %Name%,

My wife “got the call” early on Thursday last week.

She got her “go bag”, jumped in the car and began the ~3 hour drive to the hospital where her daughter was working on having our third grand-child.

She messaged me during the drive because she realized that she forgot to bring the blanket & “onesie” that she’d bought for the baby’s first outfit and asked if I could over-night it to her or meet her ½ way.

I did a little research and found out I could get it delivered by 10:00 am for $88.32.

We’ve been very busy here at the Automator so, instead of driving 3 hours,

I chose to “buy back time” and pay to have it sent.

People often say we all have the same amount of time in the day however that is a flat-out lie!

Those of us that have can buy-back time!

It’s one of the main reasons hire us to develop projects for them! Whether we are buying back time for them, or helping their employees be more productive, the goal is the same!

Get more done in less time!

Now back to the reason for the onesie…

My wife got there in time for the birth of Kenneth.

A newborn baby wrapped in a white blanket with grey footprint prints, wearing a white knit hat, held in an adult's arms in a hospital setting

Thankfully the delivery went well and they’re now home resting.

Now on with the show…

Easy Tweak to Add Functionality to all your scripts

Last week we released this video which showed a simple tweak we highly recommend you add this to your scripts! I’ve come to depend on having it available!

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

Building Menus in AHK v2

A Hero member was having troubles with building menus in AutoHotkey. Isaias led a short tutorial on building menus which we extracted here.

Learning Menus in AutoHotkey v2 [Excerpt from AHK Hero call]

Intro to RegEx

We put together a great email drip campaign that helps get you started with Regular Expressions. You can watch the first video here.

5 videos from RegEx course: #1 Using RegEx101

Improving People’s Lives: Story #40

I had a call with a new client that new very little about AutoHotkey today. I set him up with a simple function that lets him use HotStrings or Hotkeys to paste snippets of text wherever he wants it (without blanking his clipboard).

While AutoHotkey can do 8-million other things, Hotkeys & HotStrings are, by far, the lowest hanging fruit! (Both are covered in our Intro to AutoHotkey course)