Joined: December 10th, 2007, 1:06 am
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Oh man... I came across this post and HAD to do my part for the community. I know the post is old, but it has great potential.
I have been hotkey for about a year now, and it's absolutely changed our life and business!!!!
Thank you for creating this!!! and to this community that has help it to grow. I have created no less than 400 simple automation tools.
I use ALL of these plus a TON more. I HATE useless clicking that needs to be done over and over.
Here's some simple ones:
Open Notepad
Open Outlooks blank email
Open Outlooks blank task
Open Roboform Logins
Open Roboform Safe Notes
Bring Skype to top
"" and then open up my most common chat window
In every application where roboform does not work, I use ^+v to paste in my username {tab} password {tab} {enter}
I watch movies with itunes on laptop while traveling. I hate when it asks for the login, when no keyboard is in sight. now RButton if itunes is active pastes the password and submits it.
I like to backup files, so when I hit !FA and the Save As dialog is open, I just hit ^d and it will get into the name field, and append the timestamp just before the last .
I use the clipboard all the time to highlight a word and hit ^g to copy to clipboard and search Google, or ^a for amazon, etc
^+y to launch the AU3_Spy.exe for AHK I remap the shortcuts in any app that does it in a way I dislike. Like ^w doesn't close the window, etc.
I have hundreds of little tweaks for things.
MindManager has a lame system for spawning child cells. Now Shift Enter does
Smart Draw makes it hard to edit the text, so it clicks into the cell, changes the text, ^z to bring it back, then I can edit. Saves me about 5 mouse clicks
In our admin we have usernames, passwords, and URL's. I hated having them copy one at a time, change to a new browser and paste it, then repeat 2 more times. Made a hotkey that once you clicked into the table cell it would copy out the "username,password,URL". Then it automatically ran the URL and then the support would simply click into the username field and hit ^LButton to paste the username, and ^RButton for the password
Made about 5 more variations of this one. Love that tool. Outlook is a big one:I add spam to my filters in outlook, but made it so that I can simply copy out all the phrases to a notepad. Then simply click once in the notepad and it copies that line, switches to outlook, pastes it into the filter, comes back to the notepad, deletes that line and highlights the next. that happens instantly. so I just click anywhere on my notepad each time it comes into focus.
I hated adding email accounts to Outlook. user, Pass, pop, smtp, more settings > uses same.. blah blah.. I made it VERY simple. I just put the user/pass into a notepad where I copy it. Then I made a hotkey that anywhere in outlook I can hit +Rbutton it uses the user/pass in notepad and goes through all the dialogs and gets to the add new account, tabs into and puts in all the right data, goes to more settings tabs through all those and makes the appropriate changes. Boom, accounts added
Another one I use all the time is a hotkey to move emails from the inbox to the 4 most common folders. no more dragging them.
In excel I didn't like the "Alt E D R" keystroke to delete rows, so ^+r does rows and c does columns Another huge one is automation for multi step processes:Old method. Take screenshot. Save it. Open FTP. Go to that folder. Upload it. Type out URL to image. Post that into an email. Now I replaced all of that in a couple of seconds and it even opens a new email and pastes in the link along with the closer sig info. I just need to put anything special into the top.
I record all of my calls and have them transcribed to get the bullets out. That process of zipping an audio file, uploading, sending email to transcriptionist, blah blah is all 100% automated. I simply click on the audio file and +RButton, and it renames it to be able to copy the name, creates a zip, logs into FTP, pushes it to the server, appends that filename to the url, opens a new outlook and sends the entire email by putting in their name, tabs to subject, and then to body where it pastes the entire email with that link it just created and hits send. That process took 20 steps before, now it's 1
I have a lot like the one above. I love those.
Or when I boot my computer. I hit ^s and it opens my Cryptainer Vault and puts in the password. Launches Outlook, waits for the login, puts in the password. Opens my X1 desktop search, and opens itunes and starts my favorite playlist.
Creating tasks in an online tool meant selecting the pull down menu for multiple things, the user, the priority, the project, etc etc. I made a hotkey for the 8 most common people / projects and it busts all those out and submits the task Text Replacements. This has been the Holy F Grail for our companyTook Auto Correct and added thousands more misspells, and train any new employ to add to theirs any words that they misspell that aren’t added yet. Do that for a couple of weeks, and then your typing speed increases dramatically because you have no more errors.
That one is sweet, but the huge one has the ease in which you can bust out whole sentences and paragraphs with a short keystroke. I probably use 30 or so multi paragraph responses to the most common things people ask you.
8p prints my phone number
t t c = my sig including 2 sentences above it.
and I have about 200 of these that I actively use. Even for things like
p p = Paypal
a d w = Google Adwords
y s m = Yahoo Search Marketing
c b = Clickbank
o t p = I'm on the phone right now. I'll contact you once I get off. Thanks
every employee's email is just their first initial and the @ sign. so Nathan is just N@. outlook auto completes when your in the To field. but not in Skype, email bodies, etc.
In dreamwweaver I didn't like writing out things like php includes, so I just type phpinc and it pumps out <?php include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/_.php"); ?>
Ok... this is probably enough. I hope that this helps others to get ideas on how they could simplify their life.
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