SwizzTool software

SwizzTool allows you to create personal reminders and automated tasks
that can launch a program at a specified date/time,
weekday or after a countdown has elapsed.

SwizzTool also contains a memo to save notes, from this Memo you can create new alarms search on the Internet and perform many other smart features.

SwizzTool can handle global hotkeys that can
raise and lower the volume, run tasks, activate alarms
and control other features of SwizzTool.

Download it from here.

Different alarm types
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* Countdown
* Date and Time
* Day and Time
* Date
* Time
* Day

As alarm signal you can choose one or more of these
* Execute a Task
* Play sound
* Display a message


A Task can
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* Execute programs
* Open documents
* Print documents
* Search for files
* Run batch files
* Open URLs
* Run system commands to delete, rename, move files etc
* Open MP3 files and play lists
* Reboot the computer
* Shut down the computer
* Log out the current user
* Open an input box for you to search on your favourite search site
* Add text to clipboard
* Play Sounds
* Send Windows messages (Used to control other programs)
* Start alarms
* Launch several other tasks at the same time
* Save the Memo
* Set WAVE volume

Hotkeys can
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Raise volume
Lower volume
Add text to memo
Execute tasks
Activate alarms
Use most of the clipboard commands
Show settings and alarm messages windows
Use the clipboard commands

Creating a task
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Name
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Enter a name for the task, this needs to be unique.

File/Command
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An executable file
A document file
A folder
A batch file
Play list
Etc

Directory
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Specifies the default directory (this can often be empty)

Parameters
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Specify extra start-up parameters for your application

Input box for File/Command, Directory and Parameters
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If you want to add additional information when running your
tasks, this can be accomplished by writing:
[Text|Default parameter] in the edit boxes, this will open
an input box for you to write in with 'Text' displayed and
default value = 'Default parameter'

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Example 1:
You want to create a task that creates directories under c:and you want to choose name of the directory each time.

File/Command: md c:\[Name of directory?|mydirectory1]
Operation: System Command

and if you want to select drive:
File/Command: md [Drive?|c:]:\[Name of directory?|mydirectory1]

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Example 2:
You want to create a task that opens a edit box to let you write in and
then search google with that text.

File/Command: http://www.google.com/search?q=[Search for?|default]&hl=en&btnG=GOOGLE
Operation: Open
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Operation
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* Open
* Edit
* Explore
* Find
* Print
* System Command
* Shutdown Computer
* Reboot Computer
* Logoff
* Add Text To Clipboard
* Play Sound
* Send Windows Message
* Start alarm
* Multi launch
* Save Memo
* Set volume

* Open: The function opens the file specified by File/Command.
The file can be an executable file or a document file.
The file can be a folder to open.

* Edit: Open a document in default editor

* Print: The function prints the file specified by File/Command.
The file should be a document file. If the file is an executable file,
the function opens the file, as if "Open" had been specified.

* Explore: The function explores the folder specified by File/Command.

* System Command: Run your old DOS-commands here, like del, deltree
ren, move, copy etc

* Add Text To Clipboard: Well, like the name says, this will add some
text to the clipboard

* Play Sound: If you like different sounds on different alarms you can
create a bunch of these and tell the alarm to run the correct task.

* Send Windows Message: This one is rather difficult to use but it lets
you send Windows messages to another program. See
http://www.specop.se/technical.txt for more information
One example is to create a task that selects the next song in Winamp.

* Start alarm: Start or stop an alarm

* Multi launch: Start several alarms or tasks at once, if the alarm is already
active, it will be disabled.

* Save Memo: This will just save the Memo, this is so that you can create
an alarm that saves the memo every x min. It took 5min to do this so
I thought why not, someone might use it... :)

* Set volume: Set the wave volume with a value between 0 (silent) to
100 (full volume) WARNING: be carefull when setting full volume so you
don't damage your speakers/ears


Comment
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This is optional and it lets you write a short description of the task,
this will be displayed when you select the task in the list box.

Show as
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Determine how your program/file/folder or other will be shown.
SHOW or SHOW NORMAL is the most comon and if you are unsure of
this option just leave it as it is.

How to launch/execute/run a task
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There are many ways to do this

1. Click on one of the tasks and click the Execute button
2. Double-click a task
3. From the Tasks menu, click one of the tasks
4. Have them as alarm signal from an alarm
5. Start a task from another task with multi launch
6. You can also start tasks by sending a WM_COMMAND to SwizzTool, see technical.txt
for more information about this.

Memo
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Write down your notes here and they are saved when you close
the window or exit the program.

Create alarms
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To create an alarm from the Memo you simply begin a new line with a : and
directly follow that with the time. After the time you can also add AM or PM
(not case sensitive) followed by the message to display (optional). And
finally hit Enter to create the alarm, now the line will disappear
Example:
:11:45 pm Hey, good things on TV!
:10:00 Hey, good things on TV!
Default is PM, so both of the above alarms would be PM.
:10:00 am
:10:00:10
These will also work as alarm message is optional, note in the second
example I also specify seconds, these wont matter as the alarm will go off
anytime between 10:00:00 and 10:01:00.

Search
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To search in the Memo you write the text to search for in the edit box below and
click either the left or right arrow button to search forward or backwards in
the document. If the edit box is empty the left arrow button will take you
to the beginning and the right arrow button to the end of the document.
Double clicking in the edit box will paste if it's empty or delete existing text
if it's not, try it youself and I'm sure you will figure it out.

Copy, Paste and Delete text
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If no text is selected and you click the Copy button below, the program will
copy the current line to the clipboard, while Delete will delete the current line.

Web Commands
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F1 will open the current line in your browser (you can change
what browser to use in settings, "Web Browser")

Use F2, F3 and F4 to activate the "Web Commands"
The default settings for these are
F2 - Search Google with current line
F3 - Search IMDb with current line
F4 - Search A9 with current line

These can be changed under Settings -> Misc.
The current line in this memo will replace <C>
or with the text in clipboard if you activate them
from the main menu.

Hotkeys
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To set a hotkey for the Memo, you need to open the settings found
in the main menu. Click the Memo tab and choose. Don't forget to
click the Set button to activate it, to remove a hotkey select None
in either of the list boxes and click the Set button.

Execute Tasks, Alarms and system files
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Begin a new line with "." and follow that by the name of a Task, Alarm or
any other file. Examples:
.calc
.notepad
.readme.txt
Note that the Memo is always on top of other windows and the program you
start might hide behind this window.


Settings
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Most of the settings are easy to use and need no further explanation.
There are two though that I will say a few words about.

Separator
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When you use "Add To Memo", the text in this field will be added before the data
that is currently in the clipboard. So if separator is set to "\n\d" an extra
new line and today's date is added before the clipboard data. "\t" can also be
used to add the current time.

Web commands
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If you look in "Settings - Extra 1" you will see three Web commands.
The first one is:

Name Command
Google http://www.google.com/search?q=<C>&hl=se&btnG=GOOGLE

You execute these with the keys F2, F3 and F4. Now F2 will execute the first one (Google)
and replace "<c>" with the current line from the Memo and open that web page.

When you activate these from the menu it will not use data from the memo but from
the clipboard