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NextAction - A fun application to keep you focused

Posted on the June 30th, 2008 under Application, Cool Stuff, Portable Apps by dicky

NextAction is an application which helps you to “Getting Things Done”. It will always stays on the top of other applications so that you won’t forget your tasks.

This small application let you to record any tasks that you want to do and it will automatic saves them into your computer. You can right-click the individual task and marks them as “Done” or “Next“. The “Next” action will always on top, while the “Done” Action will be pushed to the bottom.

It is a simple reminder tool to help users to remember tasks for short term. There are a lot of options which you can modify. For example, under the “Appearance“, you can change the Font type, text and background color, transparency, and also text alignment.

There is an interesting feature - “Jump out of the way”, if NextAction is covering up a part of the screen you need to see, just move your mouse over it and it will move to the next corner of your screen. There are a lot of cool features which need you to explore yourself.

The application is a standalone application, but it required .NET Framework 2.0 to run. Your tasks will be saved in “C:\Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\NextAction”. So, if you want to run it as portable application, make sure you copy the files under that folder too.

Note: For Vista users, the application files are stored at “C:\Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\NextAction”. You can always view the applications files thrpugh Right click -> Behavior -> Explore NextAction Folder.

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