What we Automated with AutoHotkey  #30
Channel: AUTOHOTKEY Gurus
Date: 2024-02-06

TLDR: AutoHotkey can be used to automate a wide range of tasks in various applications, improving efficiency and potentially saving significant time and money for users.

1. 00:00 🤖 Automated launching of AutoHotkey files from Dropbox, data transformation and reporting for an accountant, and significance testing of green cells.
 1.1 The speaker discusses what they automated with AutoHotkey using a tool called Prompt Assistant to launch recently modified AutoHotkey files from their Dropbox.
 1.2 Automated data transformation and reporting for an accountant using AutoHotkey and Excel function Library.
 1.3 The speaker discusses the significance testing of green cells and the difficulty of reading 30 of them together.

2. 02:30 🤖 Automating statistical tables and multiple worksheets in Excel, saving time and reducing errors, potentially earning significant money for clients using AutoHotkey.
 2.1 The speaker demonstrates how they automated the process of fixing tables and identifying significant data using AutoHotkey.
 2.2 The speaker discusses automating statistical tables and multiple worksheets in Excel using AutoHotkey to save time and reduce errors.
 2.3 The speaker automates tasks for a client using AutoHotkey, saving time and potentially earning a significant amount of money.

3. 06:01 🤖 Automated various tasks with AutoHotkey to improve efficiency, including notifications, taskbar adjustments, web scraping, and using the YouTube API for a search tool.
 3.1 Automated tasks with AutoHotkey, including notifications and taskbar adjustments, to improve efficiency and reduce manual work.
 3.2 The speaker demonstrates how to use a status bar system tray icon to notify the status of a program, with the color changing from red to green when processing is complete.
 3.3 Automated scraping of content from the AutoHotkey forums to find new functions and scripts for the newsletter.
 3.4 Ridium is a great tool for web scraping and using AutoHotkey, and the YouTube API is being used to work on a YouTube search tool.

4. 09:54 🤖 AutoHotkey is being used to automate the process of pulling subtitles from YouTube channels, updating video timestamps, and analyzing popular videos and other channels.
 4.1 The speaker discusses automating the process of pulling subtitles from various AutoHotkey channels into a tool that can search for specific keywords across a database of roughly 1,400 videos.
 4.2 The speaker discusses the automation of updating a database for video timestamps and mentions a subscription service for access to additional content.
 4.3 The tool being discussed can automatically highlight and navigate to URLs, track views, likes, comments, and word counts, and will be used to analyze popular videos and other YouTube channels.
 4.4 AutoHotkey is being used to create a tool that allows subscribers to search subtitles on YouTube and share text and files with a team.

5. 13:49 🤖 AutoHotkey was used to automate file path retrieval in various applications, including Chrome, making it a useful tool for efficiency.
 5.1 The speaker discusses a tool he's working on that allows him to quickly get the active path of a file in different programs by using a keyboard shortcut.
 5.2 Control shift C in Chrome gets the URL if no text is selected, and builds a hyperlink if text is selected, and the speaker has incorporated this into their script.
 5.3 AutoHotkey was used to automate file path retrieval in Notepad, Word, and other applications, making it a useful tool for efficiency.

6. 16:42 🤖 AutoHotkey was used to automate tasks in Word and Excel, fix bugs related to dialog boxes and file downloads, and improve efficiency by automating the process of adding new content to a newsletter.
 6.1 The speaker encountered a bug while trying to copy the path in Word using AutoHotkey, but it worked fine in Excel.
 6.2 The program had some bugs related to dialog boxes and file downloads, and they were working on adding something with UIA and DPI scaling.
 6.3 The speaker demonstrates how they automated the process of adding new content to their newsletter using AutoHotkey to search and replace HTML code.
 6.4 The speaker discusses using AutoHotkey to automate tasks and improve efficiency on the computer.

7. 21:40 🤖 AutoHotkey was used to automate list management, create an auto suggestor, monitor clipboard text, and retrieve YouTube video data.
 7.1 The speaker discusses updates to the list manager, running Windows apps, a scheduler template for adding scripts to the task manager, and an auto reminder for a Telegram group.
 7.2 The speaker discusses enabling and disabling the most recently used lists for open and save dialogues in AutoHotkey.
 7.3 AutoHotkey was used to create an auto suggestor that can suggest and input text based on a fuzzy match.

8. 26:16 🤖 AutoHotkey was used to adjust scheduling, identify bugs, and automate saving in Studio to prevent work loss, but V2 download is not recommended due to crashing issues.