Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)

Re:Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition) by porridgeandrice on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @02:18PM (#34070951)

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.

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Re:Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition) by robk on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @03:29PM (#34072041)

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

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Re:Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition) by majkinetor on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @03:51PM (#34072356)

Use official forum, it has tone of good examples.

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

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Re:Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition) by davebrny on Thursday December 22, 2022 @04:00AM (#34091266)

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

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Re:Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition) by denolfe on Thursday December 22, 2022 @11:32AM (#34095159)

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

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Re:Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition) by lycopodiopsida on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @04:37PM (#34072974)

> 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.

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Re:Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition) by forgotpwd16 on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @06:01AM (#34079082)

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

How so?

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Re:Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition) by lolive on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @07:07PM (#34088062)

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

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Re:Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition) by aagha on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @08:20PM (#34088556)

I just discovered Fluentsearch and love it.

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

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