These are a couple of naive near-identical programs that, as well as offering the functionality asked for, are very basic hotkey-managers.

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BrightVolHKs v3.01

In addition to changing brightness (laptop/netbook only) and volume according to user-defined hotkeys, it can take a screenshot with Alt + s and a windowshot with Alt + w and and it is a very basic hotkey-manager that supports up to 75 user-defined hotkeys.  I've added a hourly spoken time-announcement, which can be turned off.  Lines of text (eg. birthdate, zip-code, etc) can be assigned hotkeys and be more quickly entered into online forms and, with support for tabs and enter, it might be used as a quick way to log into one's less security-critical sites.  It also has a tray-menu providing some options including shutdown choices.  (Includes NirCmd v2.86 (© 2003 - 2019 Nir Sofer https://www.nirsoft.net/)).

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DateWriteHKs v3.01

It writes the current date in YYYY-MM-DD format with Ctrl + d hotkey, in DD MMM YYYY with Ctrl + Shift + d and in D MMMM YYYY (eg. 9 October 2017) with Ctrl + Win + d.  In addition, it can take a screenshot with Alt + s and a windowshot with Alt + w and it is a very basic hotkey-manager that supports up to 75 user-defined hotkeys.  I've added a hourly spoken time-announcement, which can be turned off.  Lines of text (eg. birthday, zip-code, etc) can be assigned hotkeys and be more quickly entered into online forms and, with support for tabs and enter, it might be used as a quick way to log into one's less security-critical sites.  It also has a tray-menu providing some options including shutdown choices.  (Includes NirCmd v2.86 (© 2003 - 2019 Nir Sofer https://www.nirsoft.net/)).

If its shortcut is placed in the SendTo menu, it can be used there to append the day's date in the form "yyyy-mm-dd" to a file or folder's name.  Seemingly, such a functionality was desired.

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