The other day I was searching the web for interesting products to put on my tablet pc. I stumbled across a product that in fact actually helps me on every computer I own. They actually encourage you to install it on as many PC’s as you need to try out the product.
It’s called Active Words (http://www.activewords.com) and frankly it is an amazing product. It simply allows you to create mini-macros around the things you do frequently. For example I have two blogs and constantly need to send one or the other as a link to people. Simply type in the URL into the tool, and you can easily type in any application add (two spaces) blog1. That will insert my live blog into the email or document. (works on any of my machines – why? Because I stored my profile in live mesh and can share it with any computer.)
Now the other thing you can do is use the command bar to launch applications easily. Think about a series of activities you do each day with your computer. Launch outlook, launch groove etc. With active words this is no longer 8 mouse clicks, it’s simply typing begin (again on my machine).
I love to walk/run whenever possible and record that activity in Garmin’s training application – I can now launch that by typing run in the command window.
My new thought is to use Active Words to build a proposal generation system. I am playing with that this weekend – I will try and blog about it next week.
Excellent productivity product if you want to save time, effort and keystrokes (and who doesn’t).
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