2020-03-13 Friday - Task Bar - Most Frequently Used Tools

A recent posting on LinkedIn asked "What's in your task bar?"- which is an interesting question.

At the root - it is a question of what tools do you use most frequently - that you find most useful - that help increase your productivity.


Here's mine:

From left to right:

1. Start
2. Task View
3. Thunderbird (email client)
4. LibreOffice Calc
5. File Explorer
6. Snagit
7. Snipping Tool (Microsoft Windows utility)
8. Calculator (Microsoft Windows utility)
9. Command Prompt
10. Windows Powershell
11. Git Bash
12. Alarms & Clocks (Microsoft Windows utility)
1. The Timer feature is used as an aid to adopting the time management Pomodoro Technique
2. "The technique uses a timer to break down work into intervals, traditionally 25 minutes in length, separated by short breaks. Each interval is known as a pomodoro, from the Italian word for 'tomato', after the tomato-shaped kitchen timer that Cirillo used as a university student"
13. Notepad++ (text editor)
14. Eclipse (Latest: 2021-03)
15. Visual Studio Code
16. Visual Studio 2019
17. Sparx Enterprise Architect
18. TrueCrypt
1. "Though development of TrueCrypt has ceased, an independent audit of TrueCrypt (published in March 2015) has concluded that no significant flaws are present"
19. Mozilla Firefox (browser)
20. Google Chrome (browser)
21. Microsoft Edge (browser)
22. Word (Microsoft Office)
23. Excel (Microsoft Office)
24.  PowerPoint (Microsoft Office)
25.  Kindle for PC
26. All  Control Panel Items (Microsoft Windows "Classic" Control Pane view)
27. Event Viewer (Microsoft Windows)
28. iTunes
29. MSI Dragon Gaming Center (used for the System Monitor and Shift Mode features)