Awe Us With Your Rite Pen Pro Macros

[griz8791]

So does anyone have any clever Rite Pen Pro macros they want to share? I have several of the obvious ones and can look up the all but forgotten Windows keyboard shortcuts, but am looking for someone to reveal the deeper Windows mysteries.


For example, is it possible to issue akeyboard command while in MS Word which will switch to Outlook (already running in the background) and open a pre-designed template which has been filled in with the name of a particular recipient?

Also, I made a RitePen macro for Alt + Tab but instead of opening the little center panel it just steps through the open windows in sequence. When I use the keyboard to do that exact same command I get the center panel. The center panel is potentially a huge convenience for a tablet user. The step-through, not so much.

[griz8791]

Update: I had RitePen macros left over from previous versions which are designed to go in and open pre-defined MS Outlook "templates" I created for the handful of people I e-mail most often. I tried one of those from inside Internet Explorer and it did indeed switch to Outlook and pull up that template. Haven't tried it from any other program yet but I am optimistic so far.

[Sumocat]

I inspired a lot of the new macro functionality in ritePenPro after I hacked ritePen 3.0 by editing the xml file directly and triggering commands and scripts with nirCmd. Yep, I was doing keyboard shortcuts in ritePen before ritePen could do keyboard shortcuts. Write-up and screencasts are on my blog.

Regarding launching Outlook templates, I have some templates that I access via ritePen, but I've also set macros to create new OL items using the command line. So if I want to add a new task, I scribble "task", "appt" for appointment, "oj" for Outlook journal (I use "j" for Windows Journal), etc., etc. I also set it to open specific OL folders, like scribbling "calendar" to open the calendar in a separate window, but I don't use that very often.

One other clever thing: I can trigger any of the shutdown options via ritePen by accessing shutdown.exe or nirCmd.

[leo99]

I have a few dozens of ink commandsin several categories (still a far cry from Sumocat's collectionpresented in his great videos ):
<UL>
<LI>App launch - this is important to me as my desktop is alway busy and I need an instant access to all important apps; so, you've guessed right, the shorctucts w / n / e / pp / ie / ff / adb / acr / en... are reserved for Word / Notepad / Excel / PowerPoint / Internet Explorer / Firefox / Adobe Reader / Acrobat / Evernote...</LI>
<LI>Weblaunch - I have a couple dozen sites which I access via shortcuts; this includes the ritePen homepage (home) and other media, partner and personal sites (online banking and such).</LI>
<LI>Document launch - unlike the above, I am using this category to open "docs of the week" which happen to change, so this is a "floating" ink command category. I am changing both the shortcut names and the references to keep it up to date. For example, preso opens the most recent company presentation, while form and form1 open two forms (HTML and PDF) where I demo context aware recognition.</LI>
<LI>Standard texts - I have a few ink commands for different versions of signature, for a standard email body "Dear : .... signature" and for other texts; the trick with the email body ink command is that it ends with moving the cursor right before the ':' sign, so I can start writing the name instantly. I also have an ink command mt for thestandard "meeting note" which opens Evernote and puts something like
"Meeting on [date here]
Place:
People:
Agenda:"
into the note</LI>
<LI>Navigation- oddly enough, I sometimes find it helpful to use ink commandsl for the Left Arrow and r for the Right Arrow; I have more of those.</LI>
<LI>ritePen Control - list = {Settings:Macros} displays all my ink commands (so I don't forget them );bindswitches ritePen into the binding modeto assign recognition profiles to new apps; etc...</LI>[/list]

[howardd21]

Leo99 -- that was a very helpful list you posted about RitePen macros. I implemented a few based on that, so thanks!

[leo99]

Glad to hear that howardd21 and thanks for your good words. Sorry for the delay with my response - been busy releasing ritePen 3.5

Note: ritePen 3.5 adds a simple but extremely helpful macro command of Text type {RunMacro:xxx} where xxx is the name of another macro. So, now you can combine multiple Execute and Text type macros in one Text macro...

This opens many interesting possibilities, for example, a good solution for an important task of jumping to a website and logging in; the solution is a Text macro, say, "banklog" with the body

{RunMacro:bank}{Delay:2000}<username>{Tab}<passwor d>{Enter}
and "bank" is an Execute type macro which jumps to the banking website.

Be careful though; don't build too deep embedded macro chains; the maximum dynamic embedding depth is five.Edited by: leo99