/DigiHotkey

AutoHotkey based productivity tool.

Primary LanguageAutoHotkey

Personal and keyboard oriented productivity tools.

Getting Started

This project can be used both as an educational project in windows automation and a base for personal productivity tools using AutoHotkey

Prerequisites

AutoHotkey (Unicode 32bits )

Features

  • High performance keyboard typing sound simulator with sound profiles.
  • JSON user-friendly and customizable Hotkeys.
  • Customizable Hotstrings
  • Define, enable/disable hotkey groups.
  • Included French diacritics hotkeys in bundled actions configuration file (diacritics group).
  • Informs user about CapsLock & NumLock state change.
  • Enable/disable CapsLock, NumLock and Insert keys.
  • Individual application volume control Hotkeys.
  • Timer.
  • Mindfulness reminder.
  • Insomnia mode (keeps OS form going to sleep)
  • Quickly switch power plan.
  • Customizable Languages
  • No backdoor or key logger.

Platform

Windows XP or later

Configuration files

  • config\actions.json : Actions and triggering Hotkeys
  • config\audio.json: Sound Profiles
  • config\config.json: General configuration file
  • config\hotstrings.json : Hot strings
  • config\keyboard_US.json ( mean to be read only configuration file)
  • config\lang.json : (read only localization configuration file)

Executing & Compiling

You can run the software by double clicking bin\DigiHotkey.ahk

You can compile DigiHotkey yourself by right clicking `bin\DigiHotkey.ahk` script file in the Explorer then clicking Compile (Consult https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/Scripts.htm#ahk2exe)

You can also directly install DigiHotkey using the installer in the release tab.

TO DO

  1. Quick Guide.
  2. Config files documentation (in progress).
  3. Localize to French language.
  4. Add UI interface to Language selection.
  5. Display keyboard CapsLock and NumLock status icon in the notification area.
  6. Add robust error handling functionality.
  7. Fix sounds not properly playing after computer sleep recovery
  8. ...

Known issues

  1. Sounds not properly playing after computer sleep recovery

Credits & Copyrights

  • All included sounds are a copyrighted material. I did include them for an illustrative and educational purposes.
  • Many sounds have been recorded and processed by myself under CC license, I will list them if necessary. Many other CC licensed sounds have been heavily processed.
  • Ensure you have the rights to use proprietary sounds for other than educational purposes.
  • All third party libraries are open sourced and located in the /lib folder
  • This project uses the BASS audio library for audio rendering

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License