Ka Firetask

If most of your daily activities are performed on a computer, it’s best to tie reminders, and automate as much of repetitive tasks as possible, for a more efficient workflow. For instance, with specialized applications like Ka Firetask you can create manual, or timed triggers for different computer activities, reminders, alarms, or tasks.

The application hides to the tray area as soon as you launch the executable, but a prompt shows up to let you know it’s there. You’re offered the possibility to have several tasks downloaded from an online community, to which you can upload your own tasks later on, so other individuals benefit from your custom shortcuts.

With the configuration panel up, what’s left is to start creating a few tasks to get familiar with the way the application wants to help you out. There are quite the variety of options you can go through when creating a new task, ranging from time, or hotkey trigger, to a decent amount of configurable actions.

Apart from the name, a list lets you select the days in which the task is active, so it only triggers in custom periods, even if bound to a specific combination of keys. Unfortunately, the trigger method can only be of one type, such as specific time in selected days, whenever Windows runs, at regular seconds, minutes, hours or days, as well as when pressing a custom combination of keys.

As far as actions are concerned, these can either be in the form of a script, or simple action, which includes opening a file, displaying a message, taking a screenshot, pasting text in the active window, or handling several Winamp playback controls. DNM scripts can be created with the built-in editor, but can take a little figuring out.

All things considered, we come to the conclusion that Ka Firetask can help you automate quite the variety of Windows features. Tasks can be launched automatically, or at the press of custom hotkey commands. The only downside is you can’t set multiple trigger methods for a single task, or more actions.