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oldbuddy

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My Survey Miracle
« on: October 19, 2019, 10:14:26 am »
Rather than complain about the thousands of surveys that I have taken without this miracle coming to light, I am just thrilled that I finally found it.  :heart:  :star:  :heart:

I recently shared how happy I was to find voice recognition in my Windows 10, so I can save my Arthritic fingers from suffering through all the survey I take, but my most recent discovery overshadows that by far.

AutoHotKey is a Script utility that has been around forever, but I never knew it. It does way more than what I need, but yesterday I installed it very simply, wrote up a custom script in my text editor and ran it just before I start taking surveys this morning.

Now when a survey asks for my age I simply type control a, or for my zip code control Z and even more exciting to me is when one of those text boxes comes up that tells me to fill in two or three sentence to answer the question, I have a list of simple short codes I can type in, to fill a whole paragraph in a second, such as   >fc to tell about my favorite car, or >mv to share my favorite movie.

For those who think this may be too technical, here is a short example of the script I used today;

;~~~~~~ My Survey Script ~~~~~

^a::
Send, 81 ;My Age
return

^z::
Send, 97224 ;My Zip
return

::>fc:: This is my canned response that will be filled in when I type the code into the text box and can be as long as I want it to be.

~~~~~~~~~~~
Once I save the script (survey.ahk) all I do is right click on it and select Run Script.
I leave my text editor open while I work so I can make updates, save them and run the script again very quickly.

I admit that I spent half a day to learn about this, but I just saved you most of that time right here.

Have Fun!




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Re: My Survey Miracle
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2019, 11:00:07 pm »
thanks, oldbuddy... I have seen programs like that but autofill on my browser usually does that for me and I also have txt files that I copy and paste into the boxes.... maybe not as easy as your program, but also not another thing downloaded/running in the background... but whatever works best is what we should use

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Re: My Survey Miracle
« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2019, 02:42:56 am »
sounds promising!
i have to look into it.
Thanks for sharing! :pumpkin: :peace: :wave:
Be grateful for what you have and you will receive more than you ever expected

If you believe it you can achieve it.

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Re: My Survey Miracle
« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2019, 08:30:03 am »
Interesting oldbuddy! Sounds like it's very helpful to you. I use my autofill and find it very helpful at times also. I don't mind the typing too much, most of the time it's my brain that can't think straight that is the problem, haha. Like for open ended questions, ugh, sometimes I really don't have a clue as to what to put in those. The other day I had one that asked what a perfect day for me would be, and why. I put in my "reality" response, but in another life, it'd be being wealthy and not having to worry about money all the time! Oh how nice that'd be!!

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Re: My Survey Miracle
« Reply #4 on: October 21, 2019, 09:25:51 am »
thanks, oldbuddy... I have seen programs like that but autofill on my browser usually does that for me and I also have txt files that I copy and paste into the boxes.... maybe not as easy as your program, but also not another thing downloaded/running in the background... but whatever works best is what we should use

I used to use txt files to copy and paste, but this has all my survey answers in one txt file and instead of copy and paste, I just enter a shortcode. The AutoHotKey program is only 2 Mb (about the same as Notepad) and uses zero background processing time while waiting to be used.

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Re: My Survey Miracle
« Reply #5 on: October 21, 2019, 06:35:54 pm »
I'm happy that you figured this out for yourself! Gotta make sure you preserve those hands of yours :);)

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Re: My Survey Miracle
« Reply #6 on: October 21, 2019, 06:52:22 pm »
I'll look into it then, oldbuddy , and see how it is... thanks for the info

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Re: My Survey Miracle
« Reply #7 on: October 22, 2019, 09:55:55 pm »
Good for you oldbuddy!  I never cease to be impressed with your expertise. You are right!  I think it's too technical for me, but for those of you who understand it, go for it and enjoy the shortcut!

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Re: My Survey Miracle
« Reply #8 on: October 23, 2019, 11:19:36 am »
Good for you oldbuddy!  I never cease to be impressed with your expertise. You are right!  I think it's too technical for me, but for those of you who understand it, go for it and enjoy the shortcut!
You just convinced me I should do a video to show it is not technical at all and anyone who can submit a comment here could learn to do it in a few minutes.

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Re: My Survey Miracle
« Reply #9 on: October 23, 2019, 04:03:12 pm »
Interesting.  Thanks very much.

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Re: My Survey Miracle
« Reply #10 on: October 24, 2019, 12:06:41 am »
                   While your post is impressive about saving typing time because I am a slow typer,  it also sounds very technical to me also and way over my head.  If you do post a video on how to do this, oldbuddy, I would love to give it a shot.

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Re: My Survey Miracle
« Reply #11 on: October 24, 2019, 03:09:43 pm »
I did the video, but I don't want to post it here. If you Google my username (oldbuddy) you can find my info and I put the video on the ezstart page.

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Re: My Survey Miracle
« Reply #12 on: October 24, 2019, 05:39:39 pm »
wow that's very interesting.

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Re: My Survey Miracle
« Reply #13 on: October 24, 2019, 10:47:55 pm »
thanks for the useful info.  I will have to check it out
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Re: My Survey Miracle
« Reply #14 on: October 25, 2019, 08:19:21 pm »
I did the video, but I don't want to post it here. If you Google my username (oldbuddy) you can find my info and I put the video on the ezstart page.

Thanks for another great informative video.  You make it look easy.

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