Instant Email or Texting (SMS) Using Launchy

Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago at 7:37 am. 0 comments

I frequently send one-line emails and/or text messages to my wife throughout the day.  I configured Launchy so all I have to type is alt-space, cherylemail, tab, and the contents of the short email.

1.  Download and install Blat (a command-line mail client.)

2.  Add a new Launchy runner command (see image below.)  In the Program field, enter the path to the Blat executable.

3.  Use something like this in the arguments field: (Don’t miss the leading hyphen.)

- -to “yourfriend@domain.com” -f myemail@mydomain.com -subject “Quick Note” -body “$$”

Instant PDF Search

Posted 4 months, 1 week ago at 6:30 pm. 0 comments

I just scanned a reference book I use daily in the kitchen called Keeping Food Fresh. I wanted to quickly and easily look up items from the book, so I created a Launchy command that will allow me to look up a string in any Acrobat file, and open the file at the position of the first match.

All I have to do is type “alt-space,” food, tab, and then the search term.  The script does the rest.

The Autohotkey script is as follows:

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