Autohotkey

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Setting up a global hotkey to add tasks to Outlook

December 23, 2010

One thing I missed since I moved from a Mac (using The Hit List for GTD) to Outlook (using Jello Dashboard for GTD) was the availability of a global hot key that I could use to bring up a text entry box which I could use to quickly add things into my electronic Inbox, for later processing.

I have found a way to achieve this, and here is the setup I am using now:

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GTD Tip: one-key opening of INBOX notebook in OneNote

September 5, 2010

One of the most useful applications I have discovered since I had to switch to Windows as my main OS is OneNote, a really great note-taking application which I use for pretty much every data-storing and note-taking need. I use a OneNote notebook as part of my GTD inbox. Today's very simple tip is how to assign a keystroke for opening my Inbox notebook from anywhere in the system. Here are the steps:

Download and install AutoHotKey, if you don't have it already (it's a really useful free application, well worth exploring).

Add the following line to your default AutoHotKey.ahk file (normally in ~/Documents/AutoHotKey.ahk):

	; AutoHotKey configuration to open my Inbox in OneNote.
	; To use this, change the file path to the path of the GTD notebook
	; you want to use. You may also want to change the key to which it
	; is assigned (I use Win-i).
	#i::Run c:\Users\zambonid\Documents\OneNote Notebooks\GTD\INBOX.one

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