I made some productivity tools in Autohotkey, and have been using them for quite a while now. They’re solid and wonderful, although only for Windows users I’m afraid. Some of you may find them handy.

• Instant Text Automator lets you make mouse and keyboard macros by inputting them as text strings (I always found recording macros kind of fiddly).
• Scratchpad is a notepad that displays and hides with a keyboard shortcut. I find it handy for making todo lists, storing text snippets, or logging changes to code as I make them for later addition to the commit.
• TextWrapper adds prefix and suffix strings of your choosing to your currently highlighted text. This can be done through Instant Text Automator too, but this is a ready-to-go tool expressly for this purpose, because I find myself needing this so often.

Tags: tools

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