SpeedyDesk Pro Screens

Tasks

SpeedyDesk can manage your simple tasks into several categories and can show task alerts on specifed time. You can group your tasks into categories, set their alarm times and edit existing ones.



Figure 1. Sample task alert

Task Management

When you right click to the SpeedyDesk icon on taskbar and choose "Launch Tasklist" option from the menu, the Task Manager screen will be shown.

Using Task Manager screen, you can add task categories, edit existing task categories, add new tasks to selected categories and edit existing ones.



Figure 2. Task Manager screen

Managing Task Categories

To add a task category, just right click on Categories list. Choose "New Category" option from the menu. When category add dialog box comes, type the name of category, choose an icon and press "OK" button. The new category will be added to list.



Figure 3. Task list categories right click menu

In order to edit existing categories, select the category from list and then right click on. Choose "Edit Category" option from the menu. If you choose "Delete" option, the category and the tasks that listed in this category will be deleted.

Alternatively, if you double click on a category in the list, the category editing dialog box will be opened.

Adding a Task

When you press button, the new task dialog box will be shown. A task consist of two properties, Task Properties and Alarm Properties. Task properties are related with task itself, task priority, task category, and whether the task is completed or not. Alarm properties are related with the task alarm date and time, task alarm recurrences.

Setting Task properties

Figure 4. Adding new task dialog box

Priority : Show the proiority of the task. It can be Low, Normal or High.

Category : Shows the category of the task.

Set Completed : Sets whether the task is completed of not. If a task is completed, the task will not fire an alert. 

Setting Alarm properties

Figure 5. Add new task alarm properties

Do not set Alarm : No alert is specified to the task. If you choose this option, the task will be shown as task alert.

Set Alarm :  Set the alarm. Recurrence options can be Once, Every Week, Every Month, Every Year.

Task Settings

When you open the "Preferences" screen, choose "Tasks" page in order to configure task settings. 



Figure 6. Task Preferences page

Activation : Activates or deactivates task alert. If you uncheck this option, task alerts will not be shown.

Task Alert : The apperances of the task alerts can be changed by using this part.

Play Sound on task alert : If you check this option, a notification sound will be played on task alerts.

Famous Quotes

Figure 7. Sample quote

SpeedyDesk can show favorite quotes on your desktop. When quote shown on screen, it stays a few seconds on desktop, and then it automatically closes. 

You can add new quotes to exitsing ones, edit them, change their skins, manage their screen positions, determine the on-top stay duration times while showing, and arrange their show time intervals.

Adding a Quote

Adding a quote is easy. Right click to the SpeedyDesk icon on taskbar and choose "Add a Quote" option from the menu.



Figure 8. Add new quote dialog box

After you write the quote and the author, press "OK" button. New quote will be added to currently active quote file.

Managing Quotes

When you right click on SpeedyDesk icon on taskbar and choose "Quote Settings..." from the menu, quote management screen will be shown.



Figure 9. Quote Manager properties page

Activation : Activates or deactivates quote show. If you uncheck this option, quotes will not be shown.

Quote File : Quotes are read from a quote file. SpeedyDesk searchs quotes file within the application installation folder with the name "Quotes".

Schedule Information : Determines the quote show time interval. In order to set new time, press "Set Schedule" button. From the Set Schedule screen, choose your time.



Figure 10. Set Schedule dialog box

Duration : Determines the show-time seconds when a quote shown.

Quote Apperance

In order to set appearance, font and skin properties of quotes, choose "Appearance" on Quote Settings dialog. 



Figure 11. Quote Appearance prorperties page

Managing Quote Lists

You can create your own quote list also. When you click on "Launch Quote Editor" from the right-click menu of SpeedyDesk, Quote Editor application will be opened.

In order to edit a file you should first open the quote file. After you opened it, quotes will be listed.

Figure 12. Quote Editor main screen

Vocabulary Helper

SpeedyDesk can show vocabularies on your desktop so that help you to learn new foreign words. When a word couple shown on screen, it stays a few seconds on desktop, and then it automatically closes. You can add new words to existing dictionaries, edit them, change their background colors, manage their screen positions, determine the on-top stay durations on desktop while showing, and arrange their show time intervals.

Adding Cross-Words

Adding words is easy. Right click to the SpeedDesk icon on taskbar and choose "Add a Word" option from the menu.



Figure 13. Add new word dialog box

After you write the word and meaning in other language, press "OK" button. New word will be added to the currently active dictionary.

Managing Vocabulary Settings

When you right click on SpeedyDesk icon on taskbar and choose "Vocabulary Settings..." from the menu, Vocabulary management screen will be shown.




Figure 14. Vocabulary Settings screen

Activation : Activates or deactivates vocabulary helper. If you uncheck this option, words will not be shown.

Active Dictionary : Words will be selected from active dictionary file. SpeedDesk searchs the dictionary files within the application installation folder with the name "Wordlists".

Schedule Information : Determines the show time interval of the word. In order to set new time, press "Set Schedule" button. From the Set Schedule screen, choose your time.

Duration : Determines the show-time seconds when cross-word shown.

Appearance

In order to set appearance, font and skin properties of word couple, choose "Appearance" on Vocabulary Settings dialog. 



Figure 16. Vocabulary Settings Appearance pages

Screen Properties : Determines the screen region that word couple box will be shown. If you check "Remember Last Position" box, cross-word box will be shown at where you moved the last one.

In order to change default backgrounds of word couple box, click on boxes W1 and W2.

Managing Dictionaries

You can create your own dictionaries. When you click on "Launch Wordlist Editor" from the right-click menu of SpeedDesk, the Wordlist Editor application will be opened.

In order to edit a file you should first open the dictionary file. After you opened it, the words will be listed.

Figure 17. Dictionary Editor main screen

SpeedyDesk searchs for the dictionary files within the folder named as "Wordlists" in the installation folder. When you tried to add a word, SpeedyDesk first tries to locate active wordlist file. If no active wordlist file exists, then new vocabulary will be created.

Figure 18. New vocabulary dialog box