“Let me tell you why you are here. You have come because you know something. What you know you can't explain but you feel it. You've felt it your whole life, felt that something is wrong with UiPath Studio. You don't know what, but it's there like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?”
—Morpheus

As much fun as relieving clients of their recurring tasks with UiPath is, building business logic workflows sometimes feels like it's the developer who's now clothed in a costume of a trained monkey instead 🐒  If you've been building UiPath bots for at least six months, you can't have missed overpouring of repetitive steps working with the IDE. Who at UiPath thought it's a great idea to have shoemaker's children go barefoot ? 😠

Author Tony Robbins has a famous quote: "Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change."  This threshold has now been crossed.

Built with AutoHotkey, the Studio Toolkit application aims to gradually right the worst wrongs in UiPath Studio—given what a 3rd party application can reasonably do within boundaries set by UiPath's terms of use.

A core application itself doesn't look like much, but the actual magic is in its modules. Below is a screenshot of the main UI housing a single module, Activity Speech-To-Clipboard, more about which below.

The Toolkit is designed with modularity in mind, so expect to see it extend with features as time goes by. For now, all one needs to know is that each module will get a slot in the main application's UI with necessary controls to operate the module.

Building a workflow from individual activities in UiPath Studio is saturated with mouse-keyboard-hopping. To all of those fed up with this continual handwork, your redemption is at ✋ (pun definitely intended). The module will transform your vocal cords into an activity picker tool, relieving your precious hands from a looming carpal tunnel syndrome. Bid farewell to non-stop drag'n'drop!

Mice 🐭 running around? Not on my watch! Get a pest exterminator here ASAP! 😷

A video introducing the operation of the module:

Here, let us enjoy a few evergreen proverbs to remind us of eternal truths:

Actions may speak louder than words, but they say a tongue is the most endurant set of muscles in a human body 👅

Ask, and ye shall receive 👄

“This is your last chance. You click the blue link — the story ends.”

“You click the red link — you stay in wonderland.”  

Proclaim boldly to the nations, stranger, and no longer shall thy hand operating the rodent apparatus travel across the land all day in vain, distressed!