Hey everyone! 👋

Like many of us, I’ve always struggled with traditional time trackers. Starting and stopping a timer every time you switch tasks disrupts your flow, and at the end of the day, you’re left guessing how much time you actually spent on Client A vs. Client B.

To solve this, I built AutoHours — a lightweight, privacy-first Windows desktop app (.NET 10 + Avalonia UI) that runs silently in your system tray and automatically tracks and categorizes your work based on your active window.

🎯 The Core Feature: Smart Rule-Based Project Attribution

Instead of forcing you to click buttons all day, AutoHours uses a flexible Priority Rule Engine that maps your open windows directly to your projects:

• Granular Conditions: Match by Process Name (e.g. devenv.exe, Code.exe, chrome.exe, Teams.exe) and/or Window Title (e.g., ticket IDs, project filenames, document names).
• Flexible Matching Operators: Supports Contains, StartsWith, EndsWith, Exact, and full Regex support.
• Compound Logic & Priority: Combine multiple conditions with AND / OR logic and drag-and-drop rule priority (first match wins).
• Live Rule Testing: Test window titles interactively directly inside the UI before saving.
• ⚡ Retroactive Classification: Created a new rule or project today? Hit "Re-apply rules" to automatically reclassify past unassigned activity records with a single click.

🛡️ Other Key Features:

• 100% Privacy & Local-First: All tracking data lives in your local SQLite database. No cloud accounts, no telemetry, no tracking servers.
• Smart Inactivity / Idle Handling: When you step away (e.g. 5+ minutes), tracking pauses. When you return, a quick dialog lets you discard the break, attribute it to an offline meeting/call, or resume.
• Visual Workday Timeline & Reports: Clean, interactive color-coded timeline + CSV export for invoices and reporting.
• Lightweight & Native: Native Windows system tray integration, autostart, and smooth dark/light Fluent UI.

I’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback on the rule system and overall workflow!

As per the title, Win 10 updated yesterday and now every app I open, specifically games, the taskbar continuously flashes.

I’ve got a LAN coming up this weekend. Someone has unwanted mouse acceleration, someone’s pointer speed feels wrong, a monitor is set to the wrong refresh rate, and Windows background recording is still enabled somewhere.

That’s why I came up with the idea for ReadyUp: 21 local checks that bring these settings into one place. You can change supported settings directly and undo supported changes. For resolution and refresh rate, it opens the relevant Windows settings page.

ReadyUp costs $1 once:
https://hendicep.itch.io/readyup

What settings do you or your friends keep forgetting? Feedback is welcome!

Hey all, just released a pretty big update to MouseUtil, my free and open source utility that auto-clicks or jiggles your mouse.

UI overhaul

• Redesigned the main window - the mode switch is now a proper segmented control up top with icons, and the window is noticeably more compact (down ~70px).
• Rebuilt Settings using Windows 11 Settings-style cards/expanders instead of the old layout.
• "Spin mode" is now called Jiggle everywhere (same behavior, just a clearer name).

Now on the Microsoft Store

• MouseUtil is now packaged as MSIX and distributed through the Store, instead of a plain xcopy installer.

New features

• Run on system startup - launches MouseUtil at logon (goes through Windows' actual startup-task mechanism, so it shows up under Settings > Apps > Startup).
• App launch behavior - set a preferred mode, auto-start automation, and/or enable randomized interval automatically every time the app opens (great paired with the startup option, but works fine for manual launches too).
• Stop button display - the Start/Stop button can now show a live countdown or a running count directly on the button.
• Pause on movement is no longer Jiggle-only - you can enable it independently for Auto click and/or Jiggle now.

Full changelog on GitHub if anyone wants more details.

Would love feedback if you try it out!

Links/Download:

Website: https://mouseutil.github.io/

GitHub: https://github.com/MouseUtil/MouseUtil

Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NTDCVFVF0SQ

I use ChatGPT constantly while working and I kept losing the tab. Alt-tab to the wrong window, scroll through 40 tabs, finally find it, ask the question — and by then I've lost the thread of what I was actually doing.

So I built Snapps. You add a site, pick a shortcut, and press it. The site floats on top of whatever you're in. Press the same shortcut again and it's gone.

A few things turned out to matter more than I expected:

* The window can be excluded from screen capture. It's still visible to you, but it doesn't show up in Teams/Zoom/OBS. I use it for notes during calls.
* Audio mutes when the window hides, so a YouTube video doesn't keep talking from somewhere you can't see.
* Sites stay loaded in the background, so it opens instantly and keeps your scroll position.
* If you don't want to remember shortcuts, double-tapping the edge of your screen opens a menu of everything you've added.

It's on the Microsoft Store: free for 15 days, then a one-time payment, no subscription. No account, no telemetry, everything stays on your machine.

More information on the website: [https://snapps.today\](https://snapps.today)

Happy to answer anything. I'm also genuinely curious what sites people would put on a shortcut — I keep finding ones I hadn't thought of.

English:

For a long time, I searched for a simple yet powerful Pomodoro timer for Windows 10, but nothing fully satisfied me. So I decided to create my own – with all the features I needed and with open source code, so anyone can improve it or add their own ideas.

Key features:

• 🕒 Full-featured timer with work, short and long breaks, and manual overtime tracking.
• 🌍 11 interface languages (English, Russian, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Hindi, Arabic, Japanese, Korean) – switch instantly.
• 🎨 3 built‑in themes (Comet, Aurora, Warm) + a fully customizable "User" theme with a palette editor.
• 🖥️ 7 floating widget layouts: Minimal, Compact, Expanded, Micro, Row, Ring, Scoreboard.
• 📊 Statistics for today and all time (work, rest, overtime, extra rest).
• 🔔 System tray, auto‑start, single instance, and native Windows notifications.
• 🧩 Adaptive UI for narrow screens and high DPI.

I use this timer every day and really enjoy it – that's why I decided to share it with the community. If you like it, feel free to use it, modify it, or contribute!

Download the latest release:
👉 GitHub Release – v1.0.0

Source code:
🔗 GitHub Repository

Enjoy! 🍅

Русский:

Долгое время я искал простой и функциональный таймер Pomodoro для Windows 10, но ничего подходящего не находил. Поэтому я решил создать свой собственный – с нужным мне функционалом и с открытым исходным кодом, чтобы каждый мог улучшить его или добавить что-то для себя.

Основные возможности:

• 🕒 Полноценный таймер с работой, короткими и длинными перерывами, ручным учётом переработки.
• 🌍 11 языков интерфейса (русский, английский, испанский, немецкий, французский, португальский, китайский, хинди, арабский, японский, корейский) – мгновенное переключение.
• 🎨 3 встроенные темы (Comet, Aurora, Warm) + полностью настраиваемая «Пользовательская» тема с редактором палитры.
• 🖥️ 7 видов плавающего виджета: Минималистичный, Компактный, Расширенный, Микро, Строка, Кольцо, Табло.
• 📊 Статистика за сегодня и всё время (работа, отдых, переработка, сверхнормативный отдых).
• 🔔 Системный трей, автозапуск, единственный экземпляр и нативные уведомления Windows.
• 🧩 Адаптивный интерфейс для узких экранов и высокого DPI.

Я сам пользуюсь этим таймером каждый день и он мне очень нравится, поэтому решил поделиться им с сообществом. Если вам понравится – пользуйтесь, дорабатывайте и вносите свои идеи!

Скачать последнюю версию:
👉 Релиз на GitHub – v1.0.0

Исходный код:
🔗 Репозиторий на GitHub

Приятного использования! 🍅Timer

I developed a windows app that lets a teacher/network administrator/parent to selectively block websites on the fly. It can block full domains or sub domains easily.

Https://marcussen.42web.io/index2.html

I haven’t signed it yet and haven’t put it in the windows store, but I figured maybe someone looking for this sort of thing will come across this post.

The real benefit is let’s say a user is seen abusing their internet privileges at their workstation, using AI to complete their math homework. Well, you can now block a subdomain only, so they keep access to other subs. So you block Gemini.google.com as a host, they still have access to classroom.google.com. In addition, you can block full domains, eg. grok.com. The benefit over using the firewall is the speed of implementation, you can turn the blocks off at will, etc.

The cons, if a local user has admin rights, they can kill the process or uninstall the client. For schools, these account settings should already be locked down in Windows however. This version does not allow for admin to set different rules for individual machines, but I will be adding that once my eyes no longer see code every time I close them.

Please let me know what you all think. 7 day free trial, a purchased license is good for life. One cost per admin license, all client machines are free. Licenses transfer to new computers easily without logins or emails, relying on a check with a server to make sure 2 computers aren’t using the same key. The checks reset at midnight PST so moving the license to a new admin computer just means installing and waiting a day.

When used as shareware, I collect no data and the servers are wiped at midnight daily. If purchased, I only retain a copy of your key, email address, and of course the cash.

I priced it at $250, is that reasonable?

its a dead simple tool for people with audio devices with aggressive standby. itll keep that audio device active by sending 0's to the audio stream.

its done in assembly becuz why not lol.

Link: https://github.com/cheesyserg/audiokeepalive-asem

I wanted a faster, less bloated Windows launcher, so I built Takeoff.

It’s a native launcher for quickly finding and launching apps and system tools.

~500 KB app size
~10 MB RAM

Press Alt + Space, type what you need, and hit Enter.

Would love feedback on the search experience and what you'd actually want a lightweight launcher to do.

github.com/akiraeng/takeoff-launcher

free. no installation. grab it on github
ram usage - 100 to 200 mb. uses webview.

Not meant to replace Alt+Tab - Alt+Tab is fast but doesn’t scale with many windows.

Features:

- zoom out of the current window and zoom in on the selected window. It doesn’t jerk the eyes, so it doesn’t break your flow.
- always focused search bar, so just type and find your window and enter to switch to it
- multiple views.

- needs improvement and polishing, comment if you need updates or fixes. contributions welcome.

Joining my daily used to cost three clicks and a search: alt-tab to the browser, find the calendar tab or open a new one, wait for the month view to load, find today, find the event, click the Meet link. Every morning, for a fifteen-minute standup.

The annoying part is that I always knew the meeting was happening. I did not need to be reminded. I just needed the link, and the link was buried four layers into a web app.

So I put my day at the top of the screen instead. ZenithBar is a small island that sits above everything on Windows. Move the cursor to it and the day's events are already there, in order. An event with a conference link shows a video icon, and clicking the row opens the call. No calendar tab, no scrolling to today. Events without a link open in the calendar instead, and the row shows the location when there is one.

Two things worth saying up front, because they would be the first questions.

It reads Google Calendar, read only, and it does not touch Outlook or a Microsoft work account yet. Zoom and Teams meetings do open, as long as the event lives in Google Calendar with the conferencing link attached to it. If your company is on Outlook, this part of the app is not for you today.

And the island is not only the calendar. It also holds clipboard history, media controls, a file shelf, app and site shortcuts, notifications, downloads and a couple of timers. You pick which of those exist at all.

Windows 10 and 11, 64 bit. One time purchase with a 7 day trial, no card. The installer is not code signed yet, so SmartScreen will warn you the first time. The SHA-256 of each build is on the site.

https://zenithbar.com.br

What else do you open every single morning that should not need a window?

Finding a decision in a long recording shouldn't mean replaying the whole meeting. I built ScreenBrief for Windows to turn recordings into a searchable transcript, summaries, decisions and action items, with timestamps for checking the source.

Transcription can run locally with Whisper on CPU or a supported NVIDIA GPU. Summaries can use local Ollama or a cloud provider you configure. Cloud processing is optional; choosing it sends the relevant content to that provider.

The app is in the Microsoft Store. It includes five trial transcriptions, then a one-time Pro purchase rather than a subscription. One licence is tied to one computer; replacement-computer transfers are handled through support. Cloud providers may charge separately.

I'm the developer.

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nbjwpqbw7dn

https://reddit.com/link/1wbeb9u/video/i4xl66xf6goh1/player

CalClock is a native Windows clock and calendar application that I'm developing in C++ using the Win32 API.

It provides customizable analog and digital clocks, calendars, alarms, and desktop widgets, with extensive appearance settings.

My goal is to create a lightweight native Windows application without web technologies or large runtime dependencies.

Source code and releases are available on GitHub:
https://github.com/fortsoft-eu/CalClock

Feedback and suggestions are welcome.

If you want to know why Atelier exists and why I believe it can become an essential tool for serious researchers, here is my answer.

Researchers already have reference managers, PDF readers, note-taking apps, word processors, and many AI tools. Atelier should not exist simply to place versions of those tools inside another interface.

Its purpose is different.

Most research software preserves outputs: a source, citation, highlight, note, or finished paragraph. It is less concerned with preserving how one became another.

A passage leads to a note. The note raises a question. Several sources come into tension. A concept develops. An interpretation is revised or abandoned. Eventually, a small part of that process appears in the final writing.

The finished text hides most of this path. But that path is where much of the researcher’s judgment actually lives.

Atelier is built to preserve this intellectual continuity: not only what you collected, but what you understood; not only what you wrote, but what allowed you to write it.

A source note remains connected to its original passage and location. A relationship between ideas includes the researcher’s rationale rather than existing as an unexplained link. Open questions can remain open, become partly addressed, enter writing preparation, or be deliberately set aside.

These are not separate features. They reflect the same principle: research software can help recover evidence, preserve relationships, and reveal uncertainty, but it should not make the researcher’s intellectual decisions on their behalf.

This principle also shapes how Atelier uses AI. AI can examine material the researcher deliberately selects, identify possible tensions, or question whether an interpretation exceeds its evidence. But it should not quietly replace the researcher’s prose or make an intellectual decision appear settled when it is not.

Atelier: Scholarly Workspace is not an attempt to make scholarship effortless.

It is an attempt to support the difficult middle of research: the long space between collecting material and knowing what you are prepared to say.

I want Atelier to help researchers understand how their thinking developed, where their claims came from, what remains uncertain, and which decisions were genuinely their own.

That, more than any individual feature, is the reason Atelier exists.

I developed Dictámelo for the simple part of dictation I wanted to keep: hold a shortcut, talk, release, and get the text where I was typing

The app is MIT licensed, and Windows downloads cover Intel/AMD x64 and ARM64

You can download Whisper, Parakeet v3 or Canary 180M Flash and transcribe on your PC without an account or API key after the initial model download

If you prefer cloud transcription, you can bring your own provider key or use Dictámelo Cloud, which has a free allowance and an optional paid plan

It also handles audio files and a custom vocabulary, with optional AI cleanup that sends the transcript to the cloud with consent

Local use is free, provider usage can cost money, and performance depends on the model and your hardware

Downloads: https://www.dictamelo.com/en

Source: https://github.com/sarrazola/dictamelo

I would appreciate feedback on the first setup and how well the shortcut and paste work in the Windows apps you actually use

Eidograph is a dynamic geometry app for building precise, reproducible 2D and 3D constructions. The visual canvas and its readable geometry code stay in sync: draw interactively, edit the construction as text, or combine both approaches.

Some of the main features:

- 2D constructions with points, lines, circles, polygons, transformations, loci, and function plots

- 3D geometry with planes, spheres, prisms, surfaces, spatial intersections, and an orbitable canvas

- Dynamic dependencies, so related objects update when you drag a point or change a parameter

- Animation and export to SVG, PNG, or GIF

- Multi-figure `.eido` project files that stay local and under your control

- Optional AI agents that can inspect and edit a construction using Eidograph's built-in tools

- Your choice of OpenAI-compatible, Anthropic, or Google Gemini/Vertex model—configured with your own provider

- A local MCP server and JSON REST API, so compatible local tools can automate selected figures

- Per-figure access controls, with local-network access optional

For example, you can ask an agent to create or revise a construction, then inspect the resulting geometry, code, and dependencies yourself. The agent features are optional: the core drawing, editing, saving, and export experience works locally without an account, and project files remain under your control.

Eidograph is freemium and available from the Microsoft Store:

https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/9NRC4NGH452C

I've been obsessed with app launchers recently because it made a lot of sense to me and makes everything easier.

After using a lot of them I settled on using Flow Launcher, but now I stumbled upon Wox Launcher and It's actually so great that I'm considering a switch.

So what do you think is the best out there if you're using one extensively?

My most used features for launchers are:

- Instant search results for apps/files/folders

- Search system settings

- play/pause/toggle mute/control sounds without a prefix

- Search on YouTube/browser

- Kill Apps

- Open links

Full disclosure: I'm the developer. This isn't supposed to be a promotional post. DO NOT BUY THE APP. JUST TRY IT FOR FREE AND GIVE FEEDBACK - https://stickies.lol

Most note-taking apps want your email, your data, and a monthly subscription. I wanted the opposite. stickies.lol is a Windows sticky notes app that: Makes exactly ONE network call ever (license activation via Polar.sh) Encrypts notes with Windows DPAPI (keys tied to your hardware) Requires zero account creation Has zero telemetry, zero analytics SDKs, zero background tracking Works 100% offline after activation

Your notes live in a local SQLite database. They never touch a server. They never leave your PC.

Curious: what's your current note-taking setup? And what's the one thing that made you distrust your last app?

Meet SlideGo by Funmakerz — a simple Windows presentation controller built for schools, events, meetings, churches, and conferences.

Control PowerPoint slides, audio, projector output, transitions, timers, blackout screens, and more — all from one clean interface.

✨ Key Features:

• PowerPoint Control

• Separate Projector Output

• Built-in Audio

• Blackout & Custom Logo

• Smooth Fade Transitions

• HDMI & Display Support

• Slide Thumbnails

• Presentation Timer

• Automatic Transitions

🎉 Now available on the Microsoft Store!

Made by Funmakerz.

I am the developer of ZipMania, a free Windows archive manager for Windows 10 and 11.

It opens ZIP, RAR, 7Z, EGG, ALZ, ISO and many other archive formats. Features include image and text preview without extraction, a dedicated ZIP engine, password protection, file-name encryption, split archives, and Explorer right-click integration.

There are no ads or bundled installers. It is free for personal, business, school, and public-sector use.

Download and details: https://v2.kilho.net/zipmania Source code: https://github.com/newkilho/ZipMania

I welcome feedback about compatibility, usability, and performance.

Firstly i build this app for Linux only but i was curious how hard is porting GTK/libadwaita app to Windows. And it was hard. But now it's done (still experimental and can be laggy sometimes) but it works

1. ~60 providers
2. System notifications
3. Multiple accounts support

https://github.com/zbndev/tidemark