This is the best Windows productivity tool ever. SlickRun gives you a small clock in the corner of the screen that when clicked, or invoked with with the Windows-Q key, becomes a command line. By assigning commands short names you can configure SlickRun to do anything: run programs, fire up your email client, open a web page. I set it to so that MAIL brings up my mail program, EXCEL brings up Excel, TODO brings up my Excel sheet with my todo list in it and ME executes a mailto link with my email address in it. The command line even has completion so you don’t have to type all of the command. Right now “Windows-Q,T,Enter” brings up my todo list. How quickly can you fire up yours?
I combine this with my small Wiki so that it will bring up the page that relates to my personal contacts i.e. Windows-Q JOHNTA brings up my personal Wiki page about my friend John.
I was using some other software to do this but it required a yearly subscription which put me off it..that software allowed you to type in the shortcut anywhere you were typing which caused more problems than it solved.
Later… as a result of using SlickRun I have been looking up the command line options for Windows programs to see how I can integrate them.
