Task Timer

A good management of time can lead businesses to success, and even help with personal activities and tasks. Specialized computer applications like Task Timer greatly help in this regard, with automated processes that can launch things for you, show messages, and trigger audio alerts so you don’t miss appointments or forget about certain tasks.

One of the main advantage of the application is portability, especially because it lets you take your appointment sheet along on a USB flash drive, so regardless of the PC you work on to be alerted of upcoming events. Another perk of portability is that the target computer’s health status remains intact, because registries don’t need to be modified for things to work out.

The application is designed to spend most of its time in the system tray, and is exactly where you find it at launch, so don’t worry if nothing shows up when running the executable. There’s a custom-made interface that makes it easy to view calendar items and tasks, as well as manage general settings.

Tasks and events are created in a simple, wizard-driven process that lets you fully configure, how, when, and why the alert needs to pop up at a specific time. Every task can be made recurrent, or simply to launch whenever Windows starts.

After time options are configured, you’re taken to more interesting settings, namely actions. A drop down menu lets you select from computer, run, close process, show message, or several basic file management operations like copy, rename, or delete.

The last set of options let you write down a name, whether or not to enable it right away, disable after a certain time, set up an audio alarm, show message, and automatically confirm after a specific number of seconds. When done, the application can be minimized to system tray, with alerts attracting your attention when time is due.

All things considered, we come to the conclusion that Task Timer manages to live up to expectations, providing powerful assistance in time management, with various options to configure. You can easily carry it around, along with your tasks, while the task setup process is flexible, allowing you to put different action in motion, and configure various alerts.