Mousey, reduce RSI

MOUSEY

MOUSEY is an extention of Windows Desktop Environment which can interact with all Windows app(s).

The main goal of MOUSEY is to bring main app actions like close/minimize app to your mouse location.

Start

Move your mouse pointer ontop of an app screen and click the middle mouse button. You can now start using MOUSEY by clicking by any desired action button.

Or use Voice activation with the Keywords: "Mousee" or "Cortana".

Enable Vision for webcam activation by pointing your finger to the webcam.

MOUSEY can also hide itself when you move your mouse pointer away to the outerbounds.

Laptop (touchpad) and touch devices

There is a way to hookup the three finger tap (touchpad) (in Windows 10/11) for performing the middle mouse click. Look in to the settings of your touchpad. Setup three finger tab on the touchpad to perform a middle mouse click option.

Actions

you can interact with a app by using the actions buttons like close/minimize etc.

Available options

Close an app.

Maximize/minimize/minimize all/restore normal size of an app.

Stack app left/right.

Show Windows taskbar.

Print screen app content.

Show Windows start.

Perform a save of the app content.

Browse back/forward in explorer/app/web browser.

App tab actions close/add/back/forward a tab.

Lock your device.

The action buttons close and minimize will try to refocus on the next visible app on your mouse position. This means that MOUSEY will interact with the next visible app on your mouse position. Same operation can be repeated by clicking the close or minimize button again.

Note that some apps do not support the iso tab interaction regulations.

Core

Ai: Start copilot.
O: Start Office 365
E: Encrypt copied tekst. The key can be set in dashboard settings.
D: Decrypt copied tekst. The key can be set in dashboard settings.
CP: Paste copied tekst/item(s).

Dashboard settings:

Set the dashboard encryption key. Default is aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
The key can be 16/32/64/128/256 characters long.

Encryption and decryption:

Copy any text with Mousey or Control key + C. Make Mousey visible and click the E button to encrypt or press D to decrypt. Paste the modified text with CP button or Control key + V.

Search or run a app

Mousey can help you with performing a (web)search or starting an app or perform a Cortana search. To perform this action type your search term/app name or filepath (C:\Temp or Pictures) into the searchbox. Press enter key or click the ok button to execute.

If you type in a emailaddress and click ok, the default email client will be used and a mail message will be created with the given emailaddress.

Try for example the following commands without Cortana (uncheck: win search)

Notepad
Chrome
Cmd
Youtube tupac

Try for example the following commands with Cortana (check: win search)

How is the weather today?
How are the stock markets?
Appointment

Taskbar

MOUSEY can keep track the apps what you use. It can add the app to the taskbar overall view. The key benifit is that you can interact with the app like starting an new instance or closing the existing ones all at the same time. For example if you have 30 Chrome tabs open, and you want to use them later on without creating any bookmarks. Just open the MOUSEY taskbar and right click on the app icon, and click close. All instances will be closed. When you open Chrome browser again, Chrome app will ask you if you want to restore all previous tabs.

You can also start/close multiple apps at the same time, just select the application what you want to start/close and hit the enter key. This feature i very handy when you boot your device.

Voice commands

Properly setup your microphone in Windows. Volume 70%.

Set speech recognition language to US.

Mousey has voice activation words: "Mousee" and "Cortana".
Use the "Mousee" activation word to show Mousey like clicking the middle mouse button.

Use the "Cortana" activation word to perform the following voice commands.

"hide": to minimize the current app/window.
"hide all": to minimize all the app/windows.
"exit": to close the current app/window.

"previous": to browse backwards in the current app/window.
"next": to browse forward in the the current app/window.

"previous tab": to go to the previous tab in the current app/window.
"next tab": to go to the next tab in the current app/window.
"exit tab": to close the active tab in the current app/window.

"stack left": to stack the app/window left.
"stack right": to stack the app/window right.

"maximize": to make the current app/window full screen.
"normalize": to make the current app/window normal size.

"find": to perform a Windows search.
"action bar": to show the Windows action bar.
"task bar": to show the Windows task bar.
"menu": to show the Windows menu.
"save": perform save on the current app/window.
"lock": to lock your device.
"print screen": to create a print screen.
"print": to perform a print.

"office": to start the Office 365 environment.
"investments": to start the investments data.
"edge": to start Windows Edge browser.
"social media": to start social media app.
"chat": to start a chat with the AI.
"ai": to start a chat with the AI.
"chrome": to start Google Chrome browser.
"apps": to open up the Windows App Store.
"social media": to open Facebook.com.
"Investments": to open up the Stock markets data.
"device": to open up Windows device settings.

"copy": Perform a copy operation.
"paste": Perform a paste operation.
"select all": Perform a select all operation.
"rename": Perform a rename operation.

Stylus pen

To make your stylus pen work with Mousey follow these steps:

Download the zip file, and unzip this to a folder for example c:\mousey startup folder.

Download Mousey startup.zip

Go to your pen properties in the settings of Windows 10/11 (Bluetooth & Devices -> Pen).
Go to the stylus pen single button press option. Choose here to start a classic app.
Browse to the unzipped folder and select Mousey.Startup.exe file.

That's it, now your stylus pen will work with the Mousey app. To show the Mousey app, press the stylus pen button one time.

Notifier

The notifier is a great feature when used with for example with a webapi service in combination with a mssq architecture, or with a db queuing approach. The main goal is to pull interactions (pull concept: for security reasons) from a webapi and perform Mousey command actions like opening a Office 365 documentt or your back office web system pages.

The notifier works on the background, and will execute when the interval is reached.

Here are some idea's how you can use it:

Automate Office 365.
Open up your apps/web apps when a mutation or interaction is needed.
Automate repetitive app interactions, like making it more active advise system, and let your applications guide the way.
You can make a role based -> team applications where managers can distribute/guide the work loads.
Retrieve regularly data which is needed to perform the tasks like stock options or news bullits etc.
Complete the Scrum work method in your company with Unit of work.
Async task your employees.
Time coordinate tasks of your employees.

Click on the to open up the notifier screen.

You can make the notifications user specific by entering userid/email. This value will be passed to the webapi service. The second input is to specify the service name. The service url is the url of your webapi service. You can either specify or calculate the execution schedule time (in minutes). To generate a schedule time you can provide the minutes value and click on the generate button. To save your service, click the ok button.

You can delete/update or trigger execution of a service by right clicking in the notifications list.

I have created a sample webapi service project for the developers on github. You can use the following link to get the example sources: Github example project