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cshnik

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TaskLayout: restore your desktop configuration in a moment
« on: December 04, 2014, 04:14 PM »
Hello2all!
I would like to introduce you my new liteware utility TaskLayout which should help many people in their every-day work :)
The point is: user choose a set of different opened windows(shell windows, applications) and assign a hotkey to this layout. That's all!
Now he can revert the changes on desktop(actually, restore saved layout over the others) in a single click or hotkey and get these windows back to their original positions.
By the way, it does not matter if these windows were already closed or moved or redirected. TaskLayout will start required apps and open shell windows to restore them as it should be.

Of course, there can be problems with restoring of windows which appeared as a result of user action inside applications, but today TaskLayout does not handle these cases :-[

I have nothing more to say, you'd better to try it yourself :)

Here are some screenshots:
Main menu tasklayout-screenshot1.png
Layout editor tasklayout-screenshot2.png
Settings, tab 1 tasklayout-screenshot3.png
Settings, tab 2 tasklayout-screenshot4.png

You can download actual version of TaskLayout(v0.6.0.0) here(3.13 MB).

Feedback, ideas and suggestions are welcome.

With Best Regards,
cshnik
« Last Edit: June 14, 2017, 10:13 AM by cshnik »

cshnik

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Re: TaskLayout: restore your desktop configuration in a moment
« Reply #1 on: October 24, 2015, 07:53 AM »
v0.5.1.6 released. ChangeLog is here.
« Last Edit: February 03, 2016, 05:05 PM by cshnik »

cshnik

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Re: TaskLayout: restore your desktop configuration in a moment
« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2017, 08:35 AM »
TaskLayout is free for private, non-commercial use.
v0.6.0.0 released. ChangeLog is here.

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Re: TaskLayout: restore your desktop configuration in a moment
« Reply #3 on: June 14, 2017, 09:48 AM »
hi cshnik,
it's a good idea I think, to update the first post as well with the most recent link/update.

Would it be okay to try it out on a home-office machine (i.e. one used for commercial use) ?
(EDIT// I should probably say I'm using skwire's Splat, which seems to be comparable - http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=39934.0)
Tom

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Re: TaskLayout: restore your desktop configuration in a moment
« Reply #4 on: June 14, 2017, 10:15 AM »
tomos, feel free to try it.

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Re: TaskLayout: restore your desktop configuration in a moment
« Reply #5 on: September 02, 2017, 09:27 PM »
Seems interesting. Downloading and running to tomos link.

I think this is a type of app about scenarios. In he past I did scenarios menus with the help of Power Tray (Now I am beginning to use LaunchBar Commander) , yLaunch2 and others.
Even creating bat files.
It was an interesting effort to manage the pc environment with ease.

At the present time I have several methods and begin to feels very confortable....
Moz2 - 02_09_2017 , 22_28_56.png

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Re: TaskLayout: restore your desktop configuration in a moment
« Reply #6 on: September 12, 2017, 05:40 PM »
TaskLayout v0.6.0.2 released, change log.

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Re: TaskLayout: restore your desktop configuration in a moment
« Reply #7 on: September 12, 2017, 06:30 PM »
TaskLayout v0.6.0.2 released, change log.
Downloading
Best Regards
:-*

Jessse Green

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Re: TaskLayout: restore your desktop configuration in a moment
« Reply #8 on: October 17, 2018, 04:13 AM »
This is far better than Desktop Managers.  :Thmbsup:

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