HotKeys


HotKeys
My evaluation of the Geofox One coincided with the rewriting of a Shareware application that greatly simplifies the use of the keyboard to swap applications instead of the "mouse". HotKeys by Henry Hirst really complements the Geofox wonderfully, and deserves closer examination. HotKeys has existed for a while as another of the crop of general purpose control applications, typified by Jason Kneen's Backlite. I must confess that I've been alternating between the two, as one introduced a feature I particularly liked, and then the other did something even better. Henry tells me that he decided to distinguish HotKeys from the other such applications, and I think he has achieved that. It still controls the backlight within specified hours, provides somewhere to jot quick notes, and all the expected features. In addition it is rather reminiscent of another application I've recently fallen in love with on my Risc PC: Graham Crow's MenuBar.


HotKeys on the Series 5

Instead of the pull-down menus there are up to five screens worth of slots for applications, which can be selected from the tabs. Those slots can launch applications with their most recent file, or with a specific one. It can also be set to open a range of files for a particular job (e.g. project in Plan, Data file of contacts, Word files of previous meeting minutes, etc.) and do much, much, more.
HotKeys obviously also works on the S5, and in fact doesn't use all of the screen on the Geofox, but I think it's an essential productivity tool to partly compensate for the reduction in flexibility that the lack of the touch screen brings. You can download HotKeys from Henry's Web site.


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