ActiveWords: A Tweaking Cool Application!

ActiveWords isn’t exactly a tweak for your mind; It’s more a tweak for your computer’s mind. It’s a bit difficult to explain, but easy to use, so bear with me as I stumble through a description.

ActiveWords runs quietly in the background via a small toolbar that sits on your desktop, which can be set as hidden. Once installed, it becomes a .. well… hmm… a shortcuts/customkeys /text replacement application on steroids.

Here’s some examples of what it can do:

• When I type the word WriteNow, my favorite word processor pops up.
• When I type in MT admin, my browser opens to the MindTWEAK Admin page.
• If I type in FullName, my full name appears in the document I’m working on.
• If I type in “don’t” (one of my most common errors) ActiveWords will correct the spelling to “don’t”, right then and there.

My cursor can be ANYWHERE on the screen when I type these things. It doesn’t matter. I can set it to react to the words automatically, or to require a trigger/confirmation key.

I’ve only had ActiveWords installed for 18 hours, and already I’m getting addicted. It’s surprisingly intuitive, and the program automatically detects my commonly used programs, and asks if I’d like to add active words for them.

There are many more levels of functionality to AW that I’m still discovering, including some free add-ons available on their website

AW offers a generous trial period of 60 days, so you’ll have plenty of time to decide that it’s indispensable before forking over the 49.95 license fee. So go download it now, watch a few of the tutorials, and be happy.

(Thanks to my friend at GhostDogAlpha for pointing this out to me.)

MindTWEAK: It’s timesaving, productivity-increasing, shortcut-producing, generally-cool stuff, Maynard.