Less Wrong Product & Service Recommendations

lukeprog

I have often benefited from recommendations for Things I Didn't Know I Wanted.

Given that Less Wrong is a community of unusually intelligent, critical, and self-improvement-focused people, I suspect we can generate a pretty helpful thread of product recommendations — perhaps even a monthly thread of product recommendations.

Rules:

Post one product your recommend per comment, so they can be discussed and voted on independently.
Provide a link for purchasing the product.
No books, movies, TV, games, or music. (These should go in other threads, like this one or this one.)

I'll post my own recommendations to the comments section, too.

I have often benefited from recommendations for Things I Didn't Know I Wanted.

Rules:

Post one product your recommend per comment, so they can be discussed and voted on independently.
Provide a link for purchasing the product.
No books, movies, TV, games, or music. (These should go in other threads, like this one or this one.)

I'll post my own recommendations to the comments section, too.

AutoHotkey

I have been using AutoHotkey to do keyboard remapping for more than a year now. It has given me a very significant improvement in typing speed, but more importantly less strain in my fingers.

I do the following remappings:

V-->space
Space-->shift
CapsLock -->V (I never use CapsLock, so I don't remap anything to it)
F4--> Ctrl+S (save)
F5--> Ctrl+C (copy)
F6--> Ctrl+X (cut)
F7--> Ctrl+V (paste)
F9 --> Ctrl+Backspace (full word backspace)
BackSpace-->J
J-->BackSpace

I don't necessarily expect that everyone will find these remappings useful, but I expect that everyone could benefit from some remappings.

I made the entire numpad the boss key (show desktop). :-D

1Sabiola14y

I love PhraseExpress. It basically works like Word's autocorrect, but in all programs. I use it a lot to expand short abbreviations into long text, and to autocorrect typos (e.g. 'kr,.' is converted automatically into "Kind regards, My Name", and 'teh' to 'the'). I can use it to quickly enter symbols, too: typing 'kruis,.' for example, pops up a menu with different cross-like symbols: ☓, †, ✚, etc. (kruis is Dutch for cross). It can do more - like remapping keys - but these are the functions I use. You can use it to type diacritics too; I normally use the US International keyboard for that, but there is one annoying program I sometimes need to use where that doesn't always work. PE is free for non-commercial use.

0Nisan14y

I use AutoHotKey to type diacritics with my US keyboard.

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