Getting Things Done in Windows: Enso!

AntLogiK (from the chat room at live.pirillo.com) found something that appears to be a bit like Quicksilver – only this one is for Windows. It’s not quite a GTD app, but it’ll help you get things done:

I’ve found a wonderful program for the Windows user that will make every single thing you do in Windows so much easier and way, way faster. So i thought i wanted to share it with you, so that you could give it a try and make a lot other Windows users have a better experience. It works for XP, Vista and 2k. It’s a little program called Enso. It’s developed by Humanized. It’s been around for a while, but it just recently became freeware.

There are two released programs under Enso. “Launcher” and “Words”. Basicly it’s an overlay program that you can access from anywhere within Windows. You just press and hold the CAPS-lock and start typing commands. All enso programs have some common commands. Some are google search, calculator, converting selected text to upper- or lowercase.

The Enso Launcher lets you open any program, file or URL you want, fast and easy. It also gives you window controls like minimize, maximize, restore and close. Furthermore you can make your own commands. So if you have a program, file or URL that you use a lot and it’s not that easy to get to it, maybe it has a long title. Then you can make a command that with a few characters open it. I happen to use the command prompt quite often, but i get tedious having to go down into Start menu | Run, write cmd and press Enter. With Enso i can make a command that launches command prompt when i hold capslock and type: open cmd, then releasing capslock. It’s that easy and fast.

Enso Words obviously has to do with text processing. It gives you a function for spell checking, it gives you word and character count – this is on any text that you have selected, anywhere. There’s also a command for getting a definition of any word you have selected.

They have other additions to Enso under development that are looking great too. But install them, play around, i’m sure you’ll like it very much. I absolutely love it, and i’ve only been using it for half a day. There are so many things I usually do using the mouse, but now i can do em with my keyboard thanks to Enso. So this is also a great tool for improving ergonomics by eliminating some mouse tasks. From now on i dont think i will be using the Start menu anymore.

If you have any proplems, there’s always the help command in enso, and also the commandlist command. But it’s quite easy to get the hang of reading the instructions on their website and using the command list.

So i hope you take a look at it, and show it to everyone, because it’s really a great program that everyone should use. Or atleast everyone a bit “geeky” should use it ;) And i hope it wasn’t too much reading this novel.

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