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Boss Key program for productive and unproductive use in office Print E-mail
Written by JF   
Monday, 09 November 2009 22:23




We made a tiny but nifty program originally intended for productive use, but then we discovered the other side of it. It can be used to simplify tasks as well as to escape from stagnant office policy :)

 

Requirements:

1. Windows XP, Vista, 7

2. No need installation.

3. Unzip to a folder and run.

 

For:

1. Productive use

2. "Unproductive use" :)

 

Use:

Instructions

Boss!

DOWNLOAD Boss Key program

 

 


Productive use

We do have a very good multi-tasking guide here. In case you don't need that or find it to be complicated, you can use the Boss Key program to simplify your work, by dividing your open windows into two groups:

  1. A core task, add the windows related to this task to the excluded list.
  2. The remaining windows.

Whenever you want to concentrate on your core task, just hit the Boss Key, and the remaining windows will go away and leave your workspace uncluttered. To restore just hit the reverse Boss key.

"Unproductive use"

There are times when we would like to have some fun, to relieve stress and to have some privacy in the office. But we do not want some people to find out what we are doing, here's how the program can come to the rescue.

 

Open some work applications that you are supposed to be using, such as Microsoft Word, and leave them in the background. When Boss comes, press the Boss Key and it hides all open windows excluding the list of appropriate windows chosen by the user. Press another hotkey to restore the hidden windows.

 

It works stealthily in the background, and does not show a tray icon.

 

This program requires no configuration or scripting to run and works automatically using mouse and keyboard control, it's made by AutoHotKey but does not require AutoHotKey to run. You may download and use it, modify the source code and customize the program as you wish.

 

Quick Guide

 

 

Update

Modified version: Reverse Boss Key, Apps key changed to Right Alt.

DOWNLOAD Boss Key program

 

If you like the program, introduce it to your friends and link back to us.
If you have any question or suggestion please leave a comment here.



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Hamish |118.92.152.xxx |Y-m-d H:i:s

Cool program - is it possible to reconfigure the mappings you chose though? My laptop does not have the AppKey as far as I can tell, I noticed in the AutoHotKey documentation you can do a remapping though like this:
RAlt::AppsKey

Which changes the AppsKey to right alt, but changing BossKey.ahk did not affect anything, looks like the script is already precompiled into the exe?

kakarukeys  - recomple |Manager |Y-m-d H:i:s

Hi,

If you wish to change the hotkeys, you need to have the newest version of AutoHotKey installed, edit the script BossKey.ahk, save it and recompile it.

Here's the program with the hotkey Apps changed to RAlt. :D


Last Updated on Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:12