Holding Space or CapsLock gave me another layer of shortcuts. Holding the right mouse button and pressing a key could trigger another action. I also had folders that automatically extracted archives when a file appeared.
It was genuinely useful because it all worked with the ordinary keyboard and mouse I already owned. The part I grew tired of was rewriting code every time I wanted to change something.
AI helped me modify those scripts, and that made me wonder: what if configuring this did not require writing code at all? That is why I started building RELYR.
Turn an ordinary keyboard and mouse into a configurable Windows control surface—without writing AutoHotkey scripts. Hold Space, CapsLock, or a mouse button to activate another key layer; assign app launches, shortcuts, window controls, text, macros, gestures, and on-screen Deck buttons from a GUI. RELYR also switches profiles per app and can auto-extract archives from watched folders. It is free, open source, account-free, and keeps mappings and macros locally. Public beta for Windows 10 and 11.
