AutoHotkey saves me a LOT of time on the computer

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[@gregmize01]

This gives me new respect for your content creation Jay! ❤

[@JayBates2]

I appreciate that

[@williamboggess]

If you have a multitude of unusual hot keys, you can link them to a stream deck. From there, you can add an icon to a button as a reminder. Push the button and it will run that hot key script. I use it all the time.

[@JayBates2]

Second recommendation for the Stream Deck. I'll have to give it another look :)

[@ajtxander]

I LOVE AutoHotKey! I activate scripts with my Stream Deck for all sorts of things, including Resolve shortcuts, email filing, and many other repetitive tasks.

[@JoeCartwright]

Very useful, thanks Jay.

[@PhilGroene]

Everybody should know about Autohotkey, I am very thankful one of my mentors got me into it and showed me the first scripts. For ur mail script you should integrate a GUI so you don't have to replace anything 😉

[@turbotuli]

No surprise you picked this up based on your sketchup skills. The possibilities are endless. Btw, check out Scite4Autohotkey. It's a text editor with Syntax highlighting, documentation linking and the ability to run scripts, among many other things.

[@JayBates2]

Thanks for the tip!

[@thomasalison6188]

Super useful video, thanks!!​

[@VampireOnline]

I bet you might like an elgato stream deck or something like it! Buttons with a screen to have endless options!

[@JayBates2]

Oh that looks interesting!

[@Rick.123]

Thanks Jay, I like to use "X-mouse button control" to manage my clipboard enters, its very effective too

[@JayBates2]

Hmm. Can you explain a bit more?

[@dougprentice1363]

I use snipit tool that comes with windows. You grab what you want by making a window. Copy/paste in document.

[@JayBates2]

I used Snipit for a long time. A friend recommended I switch to Lightshot and wow what an improvement. I like it much better. Lightweight and it gives a dedicated button. Check it out.

[@DearHenryA]

Windows Snip & Sketch

[@JayBates2]

Check out Lightshot for snips :) Much better than Windows Snipping tool

[@BigDaddyOworkshop]

or, you can use AutoIt Scripting language which is what AutoHotKey stole the majority of their source code from which forced them to go from opensource to closed source freeware.

[@JayBates2]

Ah. Never heard of Autoit. It doesn't surprise me that everything worth while has a clone.

[@babylon5952]

I am sure you already know this, but you can highlight whatever you want to search, right click on said highlight, and you will see the "Search Google for (whatever is highlighted).

[@JayBates2]

Only in a browser window. Autohotkey works with any text on the computer. So I can do it within a word document or any other program. It's handy for spell checking in Photoshop where the right click context menu doesn't have that option.