MyComapnaion (mycompanion.py)
Overview
Many years ago DOS was the operating system that empowered PCs. It was dirt simple. Almost too simple, single threaded, single user, and limited in every direction. A very clever skilled programmer named Phillipe Khan wrote his distributed his Turbo Pascal out of the trunk of his car, while his “office” was the back room of a Chinese Resturant. But he also created SideKick which was a DOS breakout program because it allowed (in a sense) running two programs at once on an operating system that by design could only handle one. He did it by making a Terminate-Stay-Resident (TSR) program that could toggle his progam to the foreground or toggle it back into memory. It had a a notepad, a calculator, a phone directory, and a calendar. He designed it originally for himself and then sold it under the Borland (his new comapny) label. It was immensely successful. I loved that little app. I missed that little app. So I wrote my own for linux. Yes there are other alternatives but they are heavyweights.
MyCompanion is small fast and stays out of the way until you need/want it. So quickly you need to just jot a note for later, hit Ctrl-space and you have a notepad, calculator, and calendar is right in front of you - ready for your use. Oh but then, tuck it away with the same toggle Ctrl-space and all your data is saved away in standard tet files.
I eat my own dog food. This little app sits in the background for me all the time.
Try it; if you regret it… please let me know why…
Available at: clisk here for github mycompanion
Send an email to geoff.mcnamara@gamil.com
Enjoy!
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