Howdy,
I’ve heard how runners get an endorphin rush while running (if this was not a thing I don’t think there would be many people that actually ran…)
But I’ve come to realize that, when I’m talking with friends about how we use AI, I’m getting quite “high” with our new capabilities.
We can now create virtually anything we want in a few hours.
This has led to a drastic shift in how we use AutoHotkey.
We used to help clients automate their programs but now we have shifted to
why not just create the program they want❓
It’s amazing how often we can create a custom tool to do just what they want (which they have full control over) instead of patching the old software.
How about you❓ Are you getting your “fix” in?
If not, the first three of you can have a free week of Claude’s Max plan by clicking here
Just be warned. Once you get used to the bandwidth, it will be very hard to go back!
Now on with the show…
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Move Missing Program to Mouse
Do you ever wonder where your program went❓
Our Bring Window to Mouse script makes it easy to figure that out. Simply hit your hotkey, select the window you want and WHAM there it is!
This is especially helpful when you’re remoting in to computers.
Check out how simple it works in this video
How to easily Move any Window to your Mouse Location
Every Built-in AutoHotkey Variable
There are over 100 built-in AutoHotkey variables❗
In this article I broke them into the following 6 groups and walk you through each one
- Script & Environment (who am I, where am I running?)
- Date & Time (the clock, sliced every way you’d want)
- System & User Folders (the machine and the person using it)
- Input, Send & Coordinate Settings (how AHK types and clicks)
- Hotkeys & the Running Script (what just fired, and idle time)
- Loops, Windows & Text Matching (the workhorse variables)
There are so many I built a simple script to search for them and see their current values.
Check it out in this video
How to Search and Examining Built-in Variables in AutoHotkey
Removing Dead Air
I was looking around our AI folder and saw a name I didn’t recognize; “Clear cut”.
When I opened the folder & script it came back to me.
Around 6 months ago we realized, by using Assembly AI for transcriptions we can get the time of each spoken word. This means we can create a tool to remove “ums”, “uhs”, swear words, etc. (something only available in expensive editors, usually with a subscription).
And, since FFMPEG can detect “silence” we can also let people choose if they want to remove periods where there’s either no sound or just background music.
The problem was, the script was much more complicated than we anticipated. And, while I knew I would eventually solve it, we had other work to do so I put it on the “back burner” (and eventually forgot about it.)
I love finding projects like this because now with Fable 5, I have access to (what feels like) super intelligence!
So I fed it to Fable 5 and asked it to find our problems. 6 minutes later I had a working script!
Grab the Noise Removal tool, or check it out in this video.
New AI Tool Removes Dead Air and Ums in Recordings- No Subscription!
Improving People’s Lives: Story #106
Last week I sat with a client and helped him start the transition from using AI from a browser to using it in an IDE/Local app (which has access to his files.)
He got inspired to make the switch after watching this video where I explained using AI I got two days worth of work done in 15 minutes!
How AI Built a Page Listing All My AI Tools
📚 What we’re reading
- 6 Excel features I wish I had learned years earlier
- Change these 4 Android Auto settings now!
- Use Recordly to create beautiful screen recordings
🤖 AI News that you Need to Know
- Chat GPT organized my todo list
- Google maps got a major AI upgrade
- Create your own Voice agent with Grok
- Keep learning AutoHotkey with my AutoHotkey Trivia game
⚡️Productivity tips: the “One Thing” Method
Every morning, identify THE ONE task that would make today successful.
Not 10 tasks. ONE.
Everything else is bonus❗
🤣 A spot of Humor: Treat yourself to a break with Man’s best friend
The Funniest Dog Moments 🐶🤣 Best Funny Animal Videos
What we 🅰utomated this week with AutoHotkey #140
This week I went on a tear building custom AI and AutoHotkey tools, from a revamped Add to startup (video) that lets me enable, disable, and selectively launch scripts, to benchmarks pitting Grok, Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini against each other on real AutoHotkey V2 code (Grok 4.3 crushed it on clean code at a fraction of the cost).
I also show off cheap high-quality Noise removal, semantic file search, a smart renamer, phone integration that mirrors my apps over Cloudflare, and QR tools that spit out payment and contact codes on the fly.
In this week’s video I walk you through all of them and how I keep the AI costs surprisingly low.
140 What we Automated with AI and AHK #140
Clients say…
THANK YOU, YOU SAVED MY LIFEEEEEEEEEEEEEE — @sillywilly-102
AHK Hero 🦸
Consider joining the 🦸Hero club! Members receive 25% off courses, consultations, tutoring, done for you project work, etc.
Currently we have over 590 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
- Help Extractor & Inspector
- Borrowing Firefox Cookies
- Run ProcMon to disable stupid MS Office 365 Popups
- Watermarker: add a watermark to your video
- Start Menu (Prompt Assistant update)
- AutoRuns / AutoStart Manager
- WatchFolders example
- Smart File Search
- Smart File renamer
- Progressive Web Apps
- Build CRM and PWA for local Computer Repair shop
They also have access to exclusive & pre-released content and 3 hours a week where we help people with their automation issues (the Saturday calls are geared towards people new to Automation with AI)
🗣️ 💭 Quotable quotes
- In the era of automation, embracing programming isn’t just a skill; it’s a necessity for staying relevant in the workforce — Tim Cook
- Learn a HotKey a day to keep inefficiency away! — Joe Glines
- If you’re not troubled over some of the things you’re saying no to, you need to say no MORE often! — Joe Glines
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P.S. the intro was a bit over the top but it is pretty accurate of how I spend my days.
It’s so crazy how efficient AI is making us!
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