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Minerva

Minerva is an open source Autohotkey replacement for Georgias Emailtemplates

Minerva uses a hotkey combination, Ctrl + RightShift to bring up a GUI menu, from where users can quickly insert the following

  • prewritten formatted text from .rtf documents
  • Unformatted text from .txt documents
  • Open .lnk, .bat and .exe files directly
  • Much more

The GUI menu will be autopopulated with text and folders from the folder that Minerva lives in.

Prerequisites

  • Be on a Windows Computer
  • Autohotkey must be installed with atleast version 1.1.31.00

Installation

Download this entire repository and open Minerva.ahk with AutoHotkey.

Executable

You can also use Minerva.exe, which can work standalone w/o AutoHotKey. It stil expects to see the folder structure in this repository

Usage

By default, Crtl + RightShift brings up the Minerva menu. From here, navigate to the desired folder, and choose the text you wish to insert. The first character of a folder name will also act as hotkey.

Example

A folder structure like this ...

│   AmountUsed.csv
│   Minerva4.ahk
│   readme.md
│
├───CustomMenuFiles
│   ├───1 - Nested Folders & .txt
│   │   │   Example 1.txt
│   │   │   Example 2.txt
│   │   │
│   │   └───Nested folder
│   │       └───Deeply Nested folder
│   │               placeholder.txt
│   │
│   ├───2 - Formatted text with .rtf
│   │       Enligsh text for mail.rtf
│   │       Showcase.rtf
│   │
│   └───3 - Links, batch files and executables
│           Opgaver.bat
│
├───Icon
│       icon.ico
│       Minerva-logo.png
│
├───IncludeOtherScripts
└───LoadingGraphics
		Gdip.ahk
		Hourglass.png

... will result in a popup like this

image

When you have written your .rtf files reload Minerva either by using the admin panel or by killing the process and reopening it.

Starting Minerva on Windows startup

Standing in the directory that Minerva lays in:

  1. rightclick the .exe (or .ahk, if you would rather use that) file
  2. Create shortcut and cut it
  3. press win + r and write shell:startup
  4. Paste the shortcut from before
  5. Reboot to confirm

Launch Additional scripts on Minerva startup

Any additional scripts, programs and other expecutable files in ./IncludeOtherScripts will be launched when Minerva opens.

Acknowledgements

  • Thanks to iconfinder for the loading graphic
  • Thanks to Taric Porter for his amazing GDI+ library for autohotkey

TODO

  • Performance optimize
  • Make .ini file
  • Allow for .docx files in input