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AutoHotkey

AutoHotkey

AutoHotkey is a scripting language that let’s you create custom shortcuts (hotkeys), macros and text expansion snippets (hotstrings). I use it quite extensively.

You can install Autohotkey using winget with:

winget install Lexikos.AutoHotkey

To define the hotkey Win+n (hold the Windows key and press ‘n’) to run Notepad you would run a script with:

#n:: Notepad

The # sign represents the Windows key. ^ is Ctrl and ! is Alt, so to define Ctrl+Alt+n as the hotkey instead, you would write:

^!n:: Notepad

To define a hotstring for an email address you would write:

:*:eepp::email@example.com

Now, anywhere you typed eepp in any application, the text would be replaced with email@example.com

The AutoHotkey website has an introduction tutorial here