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Website: http://www.abstractspoon.com/
Direct download: http://www.abstractspoon.com/todolist_exe.zip

Must be the best TODOLIST software there is (at least among the Freewares).

It provides almost all attribute fields such as start , due , end date, priority, time spent, category, status, and more to maintain daily jobs or large project easily.

Also, it provides Import and Export interface that you can move around your data easily between other spreadsheet applications or as a HTML page.

It is portable since you can start using it right away after unzip. You can copy the folder into your USB memory stick and bring it with you anywhere. Just make sure that you select to store data into an INI file instead of the registry when you start the app first time.

Another interesting function is that it supports multiple users through todolist file sharing and simple source control function. TO tell you the truth, I haven’t tried this function yet.

This may be more useful at your work instead of at home. But it’s worth to try it.

Also you may want to download Calendar plugin. It’s a DLL file that you can just copy into the same folder where ToDoList.exe is. After copying, restart the todolist.exe and access the Calendar plugin from the Tools menu.

Launchy with Black Glass Skin
Download from http://launchy.net. It’s a freeware.

Launchy is quite convenient and easy to use. The default shortcut keys are Alt + Space which can be easily changed from the option menu that you can access by right clicking on the border of Launchy.

It provides slick interface design which is skinable. Also, it is easy to add new executable location. You only need to define the parent folder in the Catalog menu and Launchy will scan all sub-folders and index them too. It is smart and self learning so once you executed ‘putty’ ssh by typing ‘pu’, it will show ‘putty’ as default entry next time you type ‘pu’. One thing that I didn’t like was that it consumes about 18 MB of memory. It is little too much for a simple application, but I guess it’s because of the graphic interface. But I couldn’t find better alternative.

Basically I like it because it’s pretty and smart enough to remember my favorite applications.

There are some similar free softwares introduced here at Lifehacker.com site. I did tried recently became freeware Enso. It is less intuitive (with no pretty graphics interface, showing only large bold letters on the left top corner) and hard to learn . Also it uses about 34 MB of memory. It was just not for me.

With the RocketDock and Launchy, I am in full control of my desktop.