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Autohotkey There is simply no better automation program on any OS. I even run a fully fledged tiling wm written in autohotkey. ( For reference, here's when I tricked r/unixporn into thinking it was bspwm https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/nhzz3b/confession... )

Fluent search Spotlight on steroids, for windows. Apart from being a search/launcher, it has a bunch of atrociously good features. It lets you use a custom search indexing backend, which brings me to...

Everything A search indexer backend for windows. Really great search.



> Autohotkey There is simply no better automation program on any OS.

No, there are: hammerspoon or Keyboard Maestro for macOS. Which has better accessibility API hooks compared to Windows anyway.


>Which has better accessibility API hooks compared to Windows anyway.

How so?


Can you point me to some good examples? I use it for text replacement but their own site is fairly sparse for creative uses.


I used to be a very heavy AHK user and developed a rather extensive config. Here is my config along with a boilerplate to help you start one that is similar:

- https://github.com/denolfe/AutoHotkey

- https://github.com/denolfe/AutoHotkeyBoilerplate


Use official forum, it has tone of good examples.

Here is something I did long time ago: https://github.com/majkinetor/mm-autohotkey


this one saved me a lot of time over the years. not a 100 hours but its definitely something i could use maybe a hundred times a day.

https://github.com/davebrny/kiwis

basically when you want to search something, just highlight the word(s), press a hotkey then select a site from the list and it will open up the page directly


I just discovered Fluentsearch and love it.

You use Everthing as it's back-end search and not Fluent Search?


Which Autohotkey script do you use for tiling wm on Windows? bug.n? komorebi?




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