37 Office Tasks 𝗔𝗜 𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗗𝗼, Ranked by Hours per Month News 2026-10-29

Howdy John,

Last week I met with a few friends here in Las Vegas.

The goal was to help them start to use AI.

This might sound easy, but it’s like staring at an encyclopedia and trying to decide which page to start on.

We discussed the differences between AI models (not much these days), how Agents for models are quite different than Bots like GrokBot, Muse, Dots, Open Claw, Duet (which I just got access to).

Near the end of our meeting we finally decided the best thing to use AI for is to let it help you do something you’re already doing (especially something you hate doing).

That got me thinking. Why not generate a list of the most common things people do on a computer, that they hate doing, but AI could really help with? So I created this page which has a list of 37 things we all hate doing.

Here are the top 10

What do you think❓ Which one is your biggest pet peeve❓

Check out the full list as I also mention how AI can help with each activity.

Now on with the show…

Fast Alternative to Windows Explorer

Are you as fed-up with Windows Explorer as I am❓ If so, you should check out our AHK File Explorer. It’s lightweight, super fast and has incredible search features. Take a look in this video. Prefer to stick with Windows Explorer? This script speeds it up.

Comparing XP Explorer to Windows Explorer Speed | Hero Extract

Learning Classes the Easy Way

During our client training call today they asked about working with classes. Isaias gave a great overview, but it was on a “private” client call which we cannot share.

It did remind me of a call a few years back where he had done an amazing job teaching the transition from function libraries to classes.

I’d searched for the hero extract before but never found it. Today, I used AI and found it in less than a minute!

I then asked AI to rip out the relevant part (it was in a 2-hour hero call) and push it into a concise video. You can check it out in this video.

Want more❓ Here’s a quick look at function libraries (the starting point), and a live session converting functions to classes (AI vs manual). If you want to really nail it, check out our Objects & Classes course.

Transitioning from Function Libraries to Classes

Improving People’s Lives: Story #120

A friend was trying to help out a local business get more clients/prospects and asked if I had any ideas. We kicked around some ideas. After our call, I pretended I was the client and used my ProspectFinder to generate ways he could find prospects.

It generates 30 “out of the box” ways to identify prospects using Treg.io. The best part is that, even though my tool uses Claude, ProspectFinder is FREE for anyone to use. 😊

Give it a try and let me know your favorite approach❗

📚 What we're reading

• How to Disable Bing in the Windows 11 Start menu
• GitHub stars won't pay your rent
• Remote worker fired for shutting off webcam Gets $73,300

🤖 AI News that you Need to Know

• Google’s Gemini Carbon is the best AI on the planet❓
• Tiny local Liquid LFM3 is insane
• OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra, with a 50% API price cut for computer-use agents

⚡️Productivity tips: Eliminate decisions you make repeatedly.

Every time you decide how to handle a routine situation, you spend mental energy. Create rules for recurring decisions so you don't have to think about them again. Bonus tip: use Jev to quickly apply the rules for you!

🤣 A spot of Humor: I’m pretty sure this is true…

Happy #NFL Day 🏈 Do you think I jinxed this game?

What we 🅰utomated this week with AutoHotkey #154

Ever wish a leaf blower in the background would just disappear from your recordings?

I reverse engineered how Zoom does it and built a voice denoiser, then paired it with ClearCut, which cut filler words and trimmed about 15 minutes off a 2-hour call.

In this week's video I show you that, how I used Claude to overhaul my website and help a realtor edit 15 short videos in DaVinci Resolve, and a Rust image converter I built without knowing Rust.

What we Automated this week #154

Clients say…

While I learned a lot of stuff about AutoHotkey myself first through the official documentation, it's always nice to learn extra from third parties about certain topics, what potentially interesting libraries are out there that I haven't heard of or in general seeing how others use AutoHotkey and learning through that accidentally something new is nice. I appreciate your time and effort! — Animan8000

AHK Hero 🦸

Consider joining the 🦸Hero club! Members receive 25% off courses, consultations, tutoring, done for you project work, etc. Currently we have over 621 hours of recordings teaching AutoHotkey that are exclusive to Hero members❗

During this Friday’s call we’re planning to discuss:

• Help Hero Members with their Questions & Code
• Using Claude to publish scripts on the-Automator
• Signing a contract with yourself
• Bot attack, Rate limiter and “secret-key”
• Improved way for clients to get an API Token from OpenRouter

• AHK Tools

  • Publish Assistant – saves me at least 1 hour per video
  • Watching Copy/Paste (for Automation needs)
  • Social Media Blocker
  • Personal Info Scrubber
  • Updates to Noticeable Text
  • RTF and md to HTML
  • Issue with cjson lib for v2.1Alpha❓
• Rust Tools

  • Icon Grabber
  • Image Resizer
  • Image Converter

• Progressive Web Apps DirtSimple.app

  • Find your Unique Selling Proposition with USP Coach
  • Get your business back to booming with TurnAround Coach
  • Find your target customers with Prospect Finder
• New Websites

  • WindowSnipping.com
  • Prompt-Assistant.com
  • Publish-Assistant.com
  • NoticeableText.com

• LLM

  • Create images & update text with Open Moss

🗣️ 💭 Quotable quotes

• Don’t try to change anyone. Learn the difference between actual help and co-dependent enabling — John Carlton
• Poverty is a state of mind not the state of your wallet — Joe Glines
• You can acquire more of anything in life, except time — Simon Sinek

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P.S. What was your favorite use of AI❓ Was it in the 37 items or did you have one of your own❓

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