This is a 12 lecture course for Beginners on using AutoHotKey scripting program to create a Productivity Program.

There is a pre-built program that you download and install as per lecture 1. After installation you tailor it to your personal preferences and can use it directly.

We then look at how to make the program using AutoHotKeys after installing the program.

Each topic will have short scripts that are attached to each lecture so that a specific topic can be explored in more detail with working scripts.

L 1. DOWNLOAD AND USE PROGRAM DIRECTLY

L 2. WHAT IS AUTOHOTKEY?

L 3. BEGINNERS FIRST LOOK AT USING AHK

L 4. PERSONAL TO GENERAL

L 5. INI FILE

L 6. HOTKEYS AND HOTKEY REPLACEMENTS BY USERS & HOTKEY CONTENT

L 7. HOTSTRING CONTENT

L 8. DATE & TIME

L 9. HIDING DATA AND ENCRYPTION

L 10. HELP FILES

L 11. MENU TRAY

L12. GUI’S (Graphical User Interface)

L13. COURSEREVIEW

L 14. SETTING UP AHK ENVIRONMENT

By the end of the course students should be able to:

1. Take the original script and edit the Hotstring activation keys to suit their own preferences.

2. Be able to add/remove a Key from the pre-built guis.

3. Be able to create their own scripts from scratch and run them in the AutoHotKey environment

4. Be able to navigate the AutoHotKey Documentation to search & find different commands & also test the example scripts in each AutoHotKeyDocumentation topic