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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Quick To-Do List Entry

Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago at 5:38 pm. 0 comments

I use ListPro as my main list repository.  To quickly add items to my lists, I type “alt-space, tab, todo, tab,” and then whatever line of text I want to add to my todo list (groceries, tasks, etc.)

To accomplish this, I use Launchy with the below Autohotkey script.  Inside Launchy, use the runner plug-in with the path to the below Autohotkey script as the command and “$$” (including quotes) as the parameter.

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