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What if failure is just the beginning of success?

AutoHotkey Newsletter

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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AHK Newsletter 2025-03-20 Henry Ford Had a Row of Buttons – I Have a Streamdeck & AI (And It’s Better)

Howdy %Name%,

During World War I Henry Ford sued a Chicago newspaper for libeling him when they called him an “ignorant pacifist”

At trial Henry Fords testimony was brilliant!

“If I should really want to answer the foolish question you have just asked, or any of the other questions you have been asking me, let me remind you that I have a row of electric push-buttons on my desk, and by pushing the right button, I can summon to my aid men who can answer any question I desire to ask concerning the business to which I am devoting most of my efforts.

Now, will you kindly tell me, why I should clutter up my mind with general knowledge, for the purpose of being able to answer questions, when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I require?”

With my StreamDeck I have a list of buttons on the bottom row to press that connect me with “experts” in their area.

I remember when I was on a call with Maestrith (author of AHK Studio) and in 1 hour he could create code that would have taken me a week.

More so the code was more reliable, easier to understand, and maintainable. He almost-always used an API approach instead of imititating a human.

It’s why I decided to stop learning to code, and just hire experts to do it for me.

It’s also one of the main reasons people join our AHK hero group.

Not only does the group let you ask questions to AHK Gurus for 3 hours a week, you can also reach out anytime in our Private Telegram group.

If you look at the 2^nd row on my StreamDeck , you’ll see corresponding buttons I use frequently around the AHK Hero club.

If you’re wanting access to experts, there is no better option than joining the AHK Hero club!

Click hear and learn more about it!

Now on with the show…

Creating Menus in AutoHotkey v2 is a Breeze️

During an AHK Hero call Isaias led us on a mini-tutorial of how easy it is to create Menus in AutoHotkey v2. You can an extraction of the Hero call here.

If you’d like to learn more about working with GUIs you can check out our GUIs are Easier in AHK v2 course.

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

Creating Gorgeous HTML GUIS with WebViewToo and AutoHotkey

Speaking of Hero calls, last week GeekDude joined us and shared his examples using the WebviewToo library.

I extracted this video where Isaias worked through the examples.

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

If you care to donate to GeekDude, you can do so here.

Subscriber Response to 5 most used AHK scripts

A while back I created this video talking about my “5 most used AHK scripts”.

Michael Hafen, a subscriber, created this video in response to mine.

He had some very interesting use cases which I highly recommend you check out! I also asked him to be a guest at the AHK Hero group to walk through some of his scripts and answer questions.

My most used/helpful Autohotkey V2 Scripts

My first YouTube video

I was looking through old videos and noticed my first video created 13 years ago.

A bit scary how similar my computer looks now compared to then (I was on XP then).

BTW With Windows 11 I use ExplorerPatch to put my taskbar on the right.

XP Start Menu – Toolbars

Fixing PhoneLink

If you’re an Android user you definitely should check out PhoneLink.

It allows you to interact with your phone from your PC.

Unfortunately it has been problematic for many users so Isaias and I created this video to show how we fixed our instance.

From Frustration to Success: Watch How we Fixed Microsoft Phone Link❗