{"id":179,"date":"2011-08-16T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T05:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ashokaon.tech\/blog\/?p=179"},"modified":"2020-07-18T00:50:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T19:20:27","slug":"autohotkey-for-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashokaon.tech\/blog\/autohotkey-for-productivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Have you tried AutoHotkey tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10px;background-color:#FFFF99;display:block\">(Note: This blog post was originally published under my old domain(codesmiles.com), <a href=\"http:\/\/codesmiles.com\/post\/autohotkey-for-productivity.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/2011*\/http:\/\/www.codehappiness.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Web Archive link<\/a>.<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autohotkey.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AutoHotkey<\/a> is a great FREE and open-source tool you can use to create hotkeys and assign them to commands that you can execute on your system. You are asked to create a script file with commands and then open it in the AutoHotkey program to use it. Commands are executed based on the hotkeys assigned to them in the script.<\/p>\n<p>In the script, you can specify simple commands like the one shown below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>#n::Run Notepad<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444;\">The above command launches Notepad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">#<\/span><\/strong> stands for Windows key, <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">^<\/span><\/strong> for Control key, <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">!<\/span><\/strong> for Alt and <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">+<\/span><\/strong> for shift<\/p>\n<p>You can find more commands and general usage info about AutoHotkey in the tutorial page <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autohotkey.com\/docs\/Tutorial.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Note: This blog post was originally published under my old domain(codesmiles.com), here. Web Archive link. AutoHotkey is a great FREE and open-source tool you can use to create hotkeys and assign them to commands that you can execute on your system. You are asked to create a script file with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[48,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashokaon.tech\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashokaon.tech\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashokaon.tech\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashokaon.tech\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashokaon.tech\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ashokaon.tech\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"https:\/\/ashokaon.tech\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashokaon.tech\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashokaon.tech\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashokaon.tech\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}