SwWeek: display the current calendar week in the system tray
SwWeek is a small free program whose sole function is to display the current calendar week number in the system tray.
Do you organize your work or personal life by week? Does it figure prominently in planning the things you do? My guess is that if you actually have an idea as to what week we’re in right now you probably will find that displaying this information on your system tray very practical.
For myself I like to set goals and deadlines by week. Also, for example, I create a folder for each week into-which I download the software that I find during that time, etc, so you can see how this program can be really useful to me. Here are more notes on this software:
- Day of the year: hover over the little week number in the system tray to get the number of the day of the year as well.
- Memory usage: just under 3 megs, which is more than I would have thought but still very low.
- Exiting the program: double-life-click on the system tray icon/number to exit.
- Installing: just unzip somewhere convenient and run. You can add a shortcut of the program to the startup folder to launch with Windows, or use a startup manager such as my favorite Starter.
The verdict: a simple program for a simple concept. I wavered before finally deciding to post this program, but finally decided to do it because despite being such a simple thing I am finding it extremely useful and was thinking that other people (especially businesspeople) will too.
Version Tested: n/a
Compatibility: WinAll
Go to the program page o download the latest version (approx 18K).
I’ve been using an app called TClockEx for a while. It replaces the time in the tray with the time or date in whatever format you want (very configurable). I use “MM/dd HH:mm” which results in “09/12 20:39″. It supports the week number and the day of year as well. It can also be set to copy the time/date to the clipboard when you click on the time/date display in the tray.
I’m not sure how much memory it uses since it attaches itself to the explorer process. It’s a very small is size though (exe is 87KB, dll is 94KB). I Definitely recommend checking it out.
http://www.rcis.co.za/dale/tclockex/
I also use TClockEx. Havnen’t found anything which is smaller and more helpful in the past few years. Explorer crash recovery isn’t as robust as it should be, though. That can probably be fixed by adding it to one of the “run” lists in the registry. I’m not sure which of those lists is run each time Explorer starts. All the oterh tray clocks I’ve tried are clumsy and/or bulki in comparison. FWIW, Europeans use the week number far more than American.
another vote for TClockEx. I can show info in two rows, I format that for time, date & week. Diferent format for tooltip.
I set one click to open calendar box. double click to copy certain date format, I paste in desc when saving a file as version code. Its has flexible customisation.
Do you think that it is a good thing for a person to organize his life in weeks? If yes, your program is really a great help.
Thanks!
TClock Light is exactly that (light) and I does some things that TClockEx doesn’t do:
http://homepage1.nifty.com/kazubon/tclocklight/index.html
I’ve used it for years on XP and it works great.
Of course I meant “it does”, not “I does”.
I tried a lot of date/time tools and kept “BetaClock”. Very polished, many features (desktop clock, clipboard copy), great calendar function and of course custom date/time display in task tray (multiline if you want).
Mine shows currently “w38/d15 12:53:40″
(‘w’ww/’d'dd %longtime)
I need to know the current week quiten often at work, and this tool sure helps.
DateInTray is another calender program that uses less than half a megabyte of memory. It shows the numerical date in the tray but when you place the mouse over it, it will show the calender day (Sunday, etc), the month and the numerical date. If you click the date it will show the full calender for the month and you can toggle the calender backward or forward if you like. I recommend it for its economical use of memory.