This will be your control center.
Make dashboards with buttons that launch applications or scripts with parameters. Schedule launching applications or opening websites (e.g. weather every morning, project statistics at noon, a backlog every Monday). Embed the launched applications inside the application to avoid clutter on the desktop. Easily switch to another project by opening all related applications, documentation, and websites.
Features
Your dashboards
Create separate dashboards, each consisting of groups and buttons.
Buttons allow executing programs or running scripts, with optional parameters.
You can launch either individual applications or an entire group.
Run applications, open folders and websites
Any button can launch a selected application with parameters, open a file or folder, or open a web page in a browser.
Run scripts
You can type a list of commands to execute one after another, with optional parameters that you can use inside the script.
Configuration
Contents of your dashboards can be easily configured in the settings tab.
Schedule applications and websites
The second application in the bundle, Task Assistant, allows setting up schedules to run applications, open files or websites. For example, you may want to have weather with your Pocket articles displayed automatically every morning, project statistics opened at noon, and backlog on every Monday.
Why Task Runner & Assistant?
Have common applications at hand
Don't search for applications in the Start menu and don't clutter your taskbar with pinned applications. Have your favorite applications available in the appropriate category in Task Runner.
Open entire workspaces for projects
With a single click, you can open a Word document, a folder with Excel files, and a board in Miro. Or an IDE, a terminal, documentation and a database.
Create micro applications
You can even create micro applications with the help of scripting. For example, an "application" that asks for URL and video size, and downloads the video.
Develop routine
Want to check air pollution daily? Want to learn a new language? Want to finish an online course or finally read your read-later articles saved in Pocket? Take the schedule and information about what to run off your head and put all your energy into learning.
Save time
Let your timesheet be automatically opened at the end of Friday or integrate with your calendar to open Confluence and a notepad application when a meeting with certain keyword starts.
Roadmap
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Combine both applications into a single application.
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Batch commands, e.g. run git status in all projects.
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Execute REST APIs with parameters for testing.
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Integrate with calendars.
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Statistics of executed and skipped tasks in Task Assistant.