Tag: 2025-09-22-ideaGuy Subj: Being ‘the Idea Guy’ is my super power
Howdy %Name%,
I created this amazing podcast with NotebookLM based off of The Magic of Thinking Big: The True Secret of Success by David Schwartz.
I found the podcast to be incredibly thought provoking❗
It helped me understand why I had such an “easy time” succeeding.
According to David Schwartz, some of the main things that drive success are:
- Believing in Yourself
- Not Giving Up
- Being Creative
Anyone who knows me knows how I strive in all three of the above.
I think this is also why I love AutoHotkey!
AutoHotkey makes it “easy” to create tools to implement the ideas I have.
How about you %name%❓
Are you a Creative Genius⁉️
Does AHK empower you to be successful⁉️
If not, join our AHK hero club and tap into many of us that thrive on a challenge.
Now on with the show…
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Finding Files by topic: AI is so cool…
Can’t remember the exact name of your file but remember what it was “about”?
A while back I was playing with AI and had it write this “Fuzzy matching” file tool. It allows you to filter your files based on the “topic” which is one reason why we say “AI is the ultimate fuzzy matching tool”.
You can check it out in this video.
AI Fuzzy Match – File Search
Adding Color to a Status bar
During the AHK Hero call last weekend Isaias showed Hero members how to add color to a status bar. This was really cool so I extracted it here.
Just another great example of what you’re missing by not being a member!
How to get Color in Statusbar
Adding Hotkeys for tools in MS Office
I was reading an article discussing how to create hotkeys for frequently used tools in MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc. I realized, with a little AutoHotkey love, it could be much easier for users to remember. Check out what I did in this video.
Creating Hotkeys for Actions in MS Office
New Functionality coming in V2.1
We’ve discussed Fat Arrows in v2 before but what if you want a loop❓ In this video Isaias shows us how, in v2.1 we’ll be able to have even more functionality.
One New Functionality in AutoHotkey v2.1
Improving People’s Lives: Story #62
A client of ours wrote me saying how he wanted to create transcriptions from Audio / Video files. I mentioned it is possible to get transcripts from our Transcribe & Summarize tool however it takes a couple of steps to get them.
I had Irfan borrow a lot of code from Transcribe & Summarize but create a new tool named Transcriber.
The new tool allows you to drag multiple media files to it and, automatically, create transcriptions, saved as text files, in the same folder as the files dragged to it.
What we’re reading
- How I replaced Audible with a Self-Hosted Alternative
- You need to know what Double Quotes Do in Excel
- 4 Paste Special Tricks in MS Excel that will save you Time and Frustration
- 6 Excel Keyboard Shortcuts I wish I knew earlier
- How to use Actionable Notifications in Home Assistant
AI News that you Need to Know
- Grok Code Fast 1 is pretty awesome
- Aqua voice: Avalon for Speech to Text model
- Did OpenAI just solve Hallucinations❓
- Using the Copilot function in Excel
⚡️Productivity tips: You need to be bord!
You Need to Be Bored. Here’s Why.
A spot of Humor: More accurate than I care to admit
Developer VS Tester
What we utomated this week with AutoHotkey #101
In this video, I walk through a bunch of AutoHotkey solutions I’ve worked on over the last week , showing off how versatile scripting can be for solving real-world problems.
I demo everything from automatically adjusting screen settings and manipulating calculator controls to formatting Facebook posts and managing window positions – basically giving viewers a behind-the-scenes look at how I use AutoHotkey to automate tasks that would otherwise be tedious or repetitive.
What we Automated with AutoHotkey #101
Clients say…
The content is great in general and often questions can actually help and improve interest in AutoHotKey. — Rodrigo Costa
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 460 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
- Demo OpenRouter Class
- Convert Newsletter tool to v2
- Creating scripts that don’t break when shared with others
- Demo Recording Audio with Windows RT
- Demo Transcriber
- UIA – reliably connecting to an element
- Review Names for Concatenator
- Object Oriented Programming- getting a reference to an element & reusing it
- Update to Clipster– Pasting Files
- Updates to Recently Modified Files that will save me a ton of time!
- Hotkey Loop & MsgBox issue
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
- The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing — Walt Disney
- Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice and is never the result of selfishness — Napoleon Hill
- A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve , not by the desire to beat others — Ayn Rand
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P.S. Don’t forget that being creative is something that can be developed. It’s one of the fun things people realize in the AHK Hero club. Over time people start getting inspired (and inspiring others)
