How to Automate your PC | AutoHotkey is the easiest Productivity tool you can use!

In this short AutoHotkey tutorial I show you how to Automate your Windows PC in 30 minutes using a the easiest Productivity tool in existence! AutoHotkey is an amazing & free productivity tool for windows computer. AutoHotkey is the easiest productivity tool in existence and I'll show you how to start working with it in this short ahk tutorial.
You need to be more productive and in this 30 minute AutoHotkey tutorial I'll teach how to be more productive by automating your Windows PC in 30 minutes by learning:
• How to launch programs by hitting a "Hotkey" / key-combo
• To Type a few letters and send words / paragraphs / template of text via HotStrings in AutoHotkey
• How to Send Mouse Clicks to an area on your screen

Table of Contents to automate your Windows PC:
1. Which version of AutoHotkey to download and install
I recommend installing 32-bit Unicode version

2. Which editor / IDE to install
While I use AHK Studio, for beginners I recommend Sci4AutoHotkey

3. Editing and Launching your AutoHotkey productivity script
a. Default settings to have in your ahk script
b. Launching your script

4. How to set-up AHK productivity Hotkeys to:
a. Launch a program
b. Send a mouse click
c. Send text to a window

5. How to create AHK productivity Hotstrings to:
a. Send text to a window
b. Send "special" characters
c. Send without the space at the end

6. How to Troubleshoot your code- Get your productivity tips here!
7. Recommended tools for starting out

Deeper-dive to Learn how to automate your PC

Here is the code I generated during the video:
#SingleInstance,Force
; Windows=# Alt=! Shift=+ Control =^
#n::
MsgBox hi
Return

^t:: ;Activate window and click search
Winactivate,ahk_exe SciTE.exe ;Activate SciTE
;~ MouseGetPos,winX,winY
;~ MsgBox %winX% %winY%
Click,403,68
return

::btw.::By the way
::jg.::Joe Glines
:o:pwd.::SomeCrazyPasswordIcantRemember
::bb.::You have`nto see`nthe Baby{!}

^g:: ;Paste in text
Clipboard:="this is really cool how this works"
Send,^v
return

#automate your pc #Automateyourcomputer #windowsautomation

[TiagoPizoli]

Tks for the tutorial! realy helpful, and really good explanation. Cheers from Brazil.

[miltoncarmo]

Hi Joe I'm from Brazil and I've studied AHK by your videos. They're very helpfull. I just have to say a big thank you.

[krishnaparigi]

Legends say autohotkey uploaded this video for him, and is replying to comments.

[infochamanknit]

Thanks sir for providing some basic video to recap our learning by great tutor. Always love your videos.

[thethinker]

This is What I am Searching For So Long Thanks Alot Great Work Sir 👍✨

[billjones]

lol, your system tray must love you Joe!

[GeorgeSheets]

The first decent AutoHotkey video I have seen. I can finally get rid of that space at the end of my strings 😎😎😎 Ok - It is also the first of Joe's videos I've seen.

[kikowatzy]

Didn't think I would learn anything from an intro-level video but I was wrong! Didn't know about that "o" tip for hotstrings to avoid the space. I've been tabbing out to avoid the space (which usually works fine, but it's great to have another option!).

[JoeGlines-Automator]

Automating your computer is easy. What have you automated lately?