Howdy %Name%,

Last week I noticed I had a branch down in front of my shed. 

Yesterday I towed it over near the burn pile and got out one of my favorite (albeit super dangerous) automation tools:  my Chainsaw❗ ⛓️💥

In a matter of a few minutes I had the limb cut up into dozens of pieces to easily fit in my burn barrel.

It got me thinking about how long something like that would have taken me if I didn’t have the chainsaw.  

Just like how long much of what I do on a daily basis would take me if I hadn’t automated them!

How about you❓    What tool have you created that saves you so much time that you would cry if you could no longer use it❓

Now on with the show…

Are you 🔥Burning through your AI Tokens❓
A lot of us these days are feeling like drunken sailors, getting Astra, Fable 5, etc. to fulfill our wildest scripting desires.

I’m constantly watching my “gas gauge” go down as Claude burns through my tokens faster than Jeff Spicoli would a bag of weed.

If you’re experiencing token anxiety you should check out this video❗

Cut Context Costs 99% Using Local AI Memory 💰

Dude, Where’s my car❓

Are you like everyone else and at times struggle to remember where you parked❓

Google Maps has a built-in way to save your parking space but it is way too complicated to do when you arrive at your destination and want to get moving.

So I asked Claude to build a simple PWA leveraging my phone and Google Maps.

Now I can basically hit a button to mark my position and share it with others.  You can get a quick look at PinMySpot in this video.

AI Built Location Saving PWA on Phone | Hero Extract

Clean up Noisy Audio Files

Do you have noisy audio files that need to be cleaned up❓ 

I was using ElevenLabs but their pricing annoyed me so I switched to a model at Replicate. 

Check out how amazing our noise removal tool cleaned up my audio in this video.

Want the free route instead❓  Here’s how we removed audio hum with FFMPEG.

AI Cleans Noisy Audio Instantly With Replicate 🔊 | Hero Extract

Improving People’s Lives: Story #113

During a client call our client mentioned he had a $20 a month subscription to Chat GPT because he liked to create images.

I told him I could create a tool that would still let him use the Chat GPT models (even the new 2.5 model) and other image models (~52 right now) in OpenRouter.

If you want to wire OpenRouter into your own scripts, grab our AHK OpenRouter class.

I then had Claude build a simple JavaScript tool which takes an OpenRouter token and creates pictures.  

The great thing about this approach is you only pay when you use it❗

No monthly subscription needed❗

You can grab it here for a 1-time fee of $5.99

📚 What we’re reading

• 10 Google Wallet features you should be using
• Samsung Galaxy features secretly wasting storage space
• 11-year-old streaming device is still better than any Roku or Fire TV

🤖 AI News that you Need to Know

• AI is making a business out of removing AI guardrails
• Voice assistants at your fingertips
• Clone yourself and watch yourself work!

10 NEW Github Repos Every Claude User Must Use

⚡️Productivity tips:

Remove all distractions and use a Pomodoro timer to focus and crank out things faster than you can possibly imagine!

🤣 A spot of Humor:  Ricky is quite hilarious❗

The REAL Reason Behind ‘Acts of God’ | Out Of England

What we 🅰utomated this week with AutoHotkey #147

This week was a pile of small tools that all solve annoying little problems.

I built a WebAssembly file renamer that runs right in the browser, played with AnyDoc for turning files like PDFs, Excel, and MS Word into Markdown (with OCR fallback when the text isn’t there), and set up a local concept search over my Markdown files.  While we’re on Markdown, we also built a Markdown previewer in 5 minutes.

I also got Claude relaying between my phone and PC over Tailscale using my own PWA and the Claude CLI.

In this week’s video I walk you through all of them, plus updates to Text Under Mouse and the AHK taskbar, and I let Fable run in the background chewing on tasks while I talk.

What we Automated this week #147

Clients say…

Thanks for all your help Joe. Folks are already excited about getting these updated. — Ron S.

AHK Hero 🦸

Consider joining the 🦸Hero club! Members receive 25% off courses, consultations, tutoring, done for you project work, etc.    Currently we have over 607 hours of recordings teaching AutoHotkey that is exclusive to Hero members❗

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

• Help Hero Members with their Questions & Code
• AHK Tools
  • OpenRouter Provisioning API
  • Updated TextUnderMouse 
  • Borrowing Firefox Cookies
  • Dropbox Sync (enable/disable)
  • Removing Mark of Internet flag
  • AutoHotkey.dll
  • WatchFolders example 

• Progressive Web Apps
  • DirtSimple.app -(List and  link tracker)
  • AIPicCreator – create images with nearly any AI model – no monthly subscription
  • pomodoro time tracker
  • Google maps – photo and review driver
  • ClipShare.DirtSimple.app Now Files, not just pictures and text

They also have access to exclusive & pre-released content and 2 hours a week where we help people with their automation issues.

🗣️ 💭 Quotable quotes

• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance — Derek Bok
• The amateur does not know what to do. The master knows what not to do — James Clear
• The secret to getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one — Mark Twain

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What have you made that has saved you time❓   

If you’re new to this and want help, by all means schedule a call with us today❗