| Hey, if you're interested in using keystroke automation to improve your productivity, then you might really like this software I've developed. It's called Numpad Superpowers (https://numpadsuperpowers.com) and it turns the number pad on your keyboard into a powerful automation tool. The main feature is a drag-and-drop graphical editor, which you use to program what each of the buttons on your numpad does. A numpad button might just do something simple like pasting a block of text, but it could also do wider combinations of keyboard shortcuts, pressing keys and opening applications. It's really up to you! Use cases include:
- Pasting repetitive text into linux terminals, reports and emails.
- Triggering keyboard shortcuts in video, photo and text editing software.
- Opening commonly used applications, folders or files quickly.
- Bespoke combinations of keypresses and typing, e.g. for executing SQL commands in database management software. If all this sounds like it could be useful to you, then you're welcome to download the free trial from here: https://numpadsuperpowers.com It's only for Windows currently so my apologies to Linux and OSX users! The software has a paid tier, but also has a free tier which will always be available to you - for quickly automating things here and there, it should be everything you need, so you don't have to pay if you don't want to. If you have any questions, you're welcome to email me at numpadsuperpowers@gmail.com although I'm in the UK so answers will come to you early in the morning! Happy automating,
Robin P.S. if you're a lucky owner of a macropad, or some other keypad-like hardware, then you can hook it up to my software, essentially giving it a new 'brain'. If you're interested in this possibility of using your own hardware to trigger my drag-and-drop software, then there is a guide on how to achieve this at the bottom of this page: https://numpadsuperpowers.com/docs.html |