Make small of your repeated tasks.
Smaller is a tool for managing tasks that need to happen on a regular basis - like weekly emails on regular topics as happens in academia (Lab Reports Due, Lab Prep, Tuts due, etc).
Right now, only simple email, but this will likely change as I extend it for myself.
Basically:
- GUI
- Scheduling Integration
- Event Reporting
- CLI
Right now the only way to add tasks is by editing the XML file. Also there are no notifications that anything happened or broke. This is literally a barebones app at the moment. Some planned features are:
- Run History Window with a list
- Task editor list
- Task run confirmation window - confirms that you're finished what you started
- Systray toggling
Right now, Smaller depends on you setting up a Windows scheduler to run your tasks, or for you to run them manually. I plan to provide a tool that sets up a schedule, or to use an independent scheduling.
Write run logs to your windows event log.
Maintain tasks, scheduling and querying.
It's a little technical, but shouldn't be too hard for any programmer:
- Unpack the dsitributable into your folder of choice.
- Create a windows scheduler item that runs
Path\To\Smaller.exeon a schedule that works for you, say every day at 8am. - Edit the
.bigfile to execute your tasks
Voile!
When you run smaller, it lives as a systray icon. Smaller runs jobs on startup, or you can manually ask it to run by right-clicking on the tray icon and selecting Run Now.
Big files contain the tasks and their due dates which you would like performed. They are formatted XML files which contain tasks and parameters that can be updated.
A Minimal Big file looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<SmallerTaskList xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<Tasks>
<SmallerTaskBase xsi:type="MailTask">
<ScheduledDate>2016-02-10T00:00:00</ScheduledDate>
<Identifier>060942d3-0627-4804-8fe5-d69f36c6c397</Identifier>
<To>aaa@bbb.com</To>
<Subject>Bar</Subject>
<Body>Foo
Bar</Body>
</SmallerTaskBase>
</Tasks>
<Parameters>
<Parameter>
<Key>ADMINISTRATOR</Key>
<Value>John</Value>
</Parameter>
</Parameters>
</SmallerTaskList>
You can create a sample file by selecting "Sample Out" from your system tray.
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