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 ...

Batch file renamers, photo organizers, and other automation tools have saved people countless hours. Despite all the tasks that are automated you still run into terribly tedious ones that aren't.

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, ...

Say hello to my little friend, AutoHotkey. This small–and free–utility 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, ...

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, ...

Do you prefer automating the mundane and repetitive tasks on your computer to simplify your workflow? If you do, you have one of the best automation tools, Automator, on macOS, which allows you to ...

Many of you are probably already familiar with AutoHotKey. This small and free utility lets you automate tasks and make your PC work exactly the way you want it to. The program is driven by a custom ...

Unfortunately, text copied from, say, the Web to a blog tool or Word to a Web form often comes with a lot of unwanted formatting. Drives me nuts. [ Automate Common Tasks with AutoHotKey ] AutoHotkey ...