While working on Windows there are
several ways by which you can increase your productivity, like
using keyboard shortcuts, having dual monitor setup for more screen
real estate or using autohotkey scripts to automate the repetitive tasks.
Using mouse gestures is yet another way by which you can
increase your productivity, though may not be as fast as keyboard shortcuts.
Mouse gestures has been around here
for quite some time now, however Windows still doesn’t support mouse gestures
out of the box like Mac OS X Lion coupled with Apple’s trackpad or mighty mouse
to quickly perform gestures. But that doesn’t mean you cannot have mouse
gestures on Windows. Thanks to StrokesPlus free desktop app, not only you can have
predefined gestures but also create your own new gestures and quickly automate
and perform different actions.
StrokesPlus is a mouse gesture
recognition program that allows you to automate repetitive tasks by simply
drawing a gesture with your mouse or performing mouse and/or keyboard modifiers
to fire off an action sequence. StrokesPlus not only supports your traditional
three button mouse but also keyboard keys such as control, alt key.
After you download and install
StrokesPlus, you can access different options from StrokesPlus system tray icon. Right click on StrokesPlus icon
and quickly enable/ disable features or open preferences menu to
access advance and experimental options.
Using
training mode you can train StrokesPlus to recognize your gestures, it is also
helpful when you want to add your own gestures and want to test it how it’s
working. While adding new gestures action you can either use existing set of
gestures or create new gesture by drawing pattern on small window provided by
StrokesPlus.
There may be circumstances like
playing games where there is high probability that you might accidentally hit
mouse gestures, in order to prevent that from happening; you can add those
applications to Ignored Windows
list, there by disabling mouse gestures specific to those applications.
For
nerds and geeks, StrokesPlus uses Lua scripts and if you have programming
skills then you may create your own custom & complex scripts to take Mouse
gestures to next level.
