SwizzTool

You can’t always rely on your brain to remember everything that needs to be done in a particular day. Luckily, a vast majority of computer tasks can be automated, given you’re using the right applications. For instance, SwizzTool comes with multiple features to set alarms, take notes, and launch programs automatically.

A cool thing about it is that it can be used on both your home, and work computers directly from a thumb drive, since it skips you the time, and effort needed to go through a setup process. Apart from flexibility, this also means that system registries remain intact, thus not affecting the PC it’s used on.

The application spends most of its time in the tray area, with no message, or tooltip to let you know it’s there on start. It’s the place where you can also access all editable areas, such as the memo, hotkeys, tasks, alarms, and the clipboard manager.

The memo is a simple text editor, fitted with a writer pad, and a search tab. Text can’t be customized to great lengths, with only a few preset visual style options. Documents themselves are stored in the same canvas, separated by a custom delimiter, with no built-in save, or export options.

When it comes to hotkeys, these can be customized in quite the variety of ways. All special keys can be combined with a different button in order to launch custom tasks, or alarms, as well as handling different Windows core features, such as volume management, and others.

Tasks benefit from the same deal of customization. The type is selected from a dedicated drop-down menu with options to add to clipboard, close program, execute script, lock the PC, log off, mouse click, open a file, reboot the PC, start, or stop alarm, and more. Depending on your choice, the set of controls, and requirement fields change accordingly.

Last, but not least, reminders can be set so you don’t miss any appointments. However, these provide more functions, with the possibility to show a message, play sound, repeat the alarm, or even run a task, which can mean just about anything.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that SwizzTool is a powerful, multifunctional desktop assistant, helping you automate, or program different tasks, set up reminders, and take notes. Hotkeys can be assigned to most of these functions, while tasks cover just about anything which can be launched, or triggered.