Tray-HQ

With a computer on your desk, multiple activities can be performed, considering you install the right set of tools to fit your task description. This can simply mean time management, with an abundance of tools in this regard. For instance, Tray-HQ can quietly stay in the tray area, and help you work with a calendar, notepad, stopwatch, clipboard saver, and more.

One of the main advantages is that it doesn’t take you through a setup process, thus giving you the liberty to store it on a USB flash drive to carry around, and use on other computers besides your own. Don’t worry about stability, because system registry entries are not modified to make the application work.

On launch, the application minimizes to the tray area, but with no prompt, or tooltip message to let you know it’s there. Interacting with the icon brings up a panel with different tabs, each holding specific functions for operations involving a calendar, notepad, stop time, clipbook, address book, and calculator.

The calendar is shown in a simple layout, with navigation controls to jump through months, years, or simply select different days. Notes can be added in each date, but the text can’t be exported directly to file, nor can you set up an alarm.

Writing in the Notepad component is equivalent to having a sticky note around. With no text customization options, you can only use one font style. Saving is loading can be done with files like INI, TXT, ME, and DIZ.

Time can be manipulated either through a countdown timer, or stopwatch. Apart from basic options, it can calculate money according to passing time, with a charge rate value, and item to charge by, which can be hours, minutes, or seconds.

The Clipbook tab is a pretty useful component. Here you can have clipboard content automatically saved, without replacing any entries. Groups can be created, and clips can quickly be inserted from the tray icon menu.

Contact details are saved in the address book. Combining the editor and viewer into one, navigation is pretty light. However, it could have used a list view of all entries.

An advanced calculator is also at your disposal. Unfortunately, you need to know how to use keyboard symbols, because writing the expression is the only way to generate a result.

To sum it up, Tray-HQ combines a useful variety of tools with which to make daily activities less of a pain by setting up calendar notes. Office work is enhanced because of the notepad, address book, and time management tabs, while the calculator is capable of solving complex expression, given proper input of values.