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What are some simple changes you made to your life or some workflow that has improved your life a lot? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 day ago by Achyu to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Or any skill that you deeply value for how it helps you, but maybe easily overlooked by an outsider?

I think exercising atleast 2-3 times a week was good for me. Not that I look much different, but I do feel a bit stronger and that is nice. Neck isometrics and bridges too. They really helped with balancing looking at mobile or PC screens.

Learning some keyboard shortcuts was nice. The major one would be Win key + Arrow keys to manage multiple open windows/apps.
Then, finding that I can add commonly used options to the QuickAccess bar in Excel, Word etc. Libreoffice would probably have similar options too.

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[–] chunes@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Learning how to use AutoHotkey has been life-changing. There are many games I can't play due to muscle disease, but AHK expands the amount I can play.

I do things like combine a series of inputs into one, map keyboard inputs to hardware the game doesn't support, and even create mouse controls for games that don't have any. I also made some GUIs to help me write scripts with fewer inputs.

AHK has the concept of hotstrings which are really handy. For example, if I want to expand an abbreviation as I type, it's as simple as

::btw::by the way

It's not limited to text replacement. You could easily use it to launch programs or whatever you want.

Another thing I did was change the "hold space to continuously paint" functionality on wplace to be a toggle controlled with the mouse. Which allows me to participate much longer before my arms give out.