You’ve gotten the hang of email filters or keyboard shortcuts. You’re ready to start getting into some more advanced productivity hacks, but jumping into Python seems too intimidating. Fortunately, ...

Windows only: If you've ever wanted to assign a shortcut key directly to your favorite applications, you can do so easily with this simple AutoHotkey script. The general idea of the function is that ...

Ed note: We love AutoHotkey around Lifehacker HQ due to its powerful Windows tweaking skills, so we were thrilled when Reader Scott Rippey wrote in with this extremely smart script for managing your ...

As you learned yesterday, AutoHotkey is a free macro-recording utility that allows you to automate all kinds of tasks, remap keyboard keys, and so on. By now you should have downloaded and installed ...

That said, I’m all about diving in headfirst. Today, I’m going to teach you about “hotstrings,” which are keystrokes inserted whenever you type a designated abbreviation. For example, you type fwiw, ...

With this free tool, you can auto-complete text as you type, make the Backspace key navigate folders the way it used to, strip the formatting from pasted text, and ...

Say hello to my little friend. AutoHotkey is a small utility that can accomplish big things. It’s one of the best ways I know to make your PC work exactly the way you want it to. Specifically, ...