Executor the desktop workflow application for Windows. Speed up your daily workflow, opening things and doing things.

Executor's main focus is opening things, rather than deeply integrating them. Here's why:

  • Online services and applications have their own nice, advanced and specialized user interface and/or prompt system. Why try to replicate that into a probably weaker limited solution. Let's just open the proper one.
  • They come and go (myspace plugin?). Some just slowly fade away, but a small crowd might still like support.
  • They change all the time, resulting in a maintenance nightmare to keep all integrations working. Functionality is likely to slowly deteriorate and get buggy, leading to frustration.
  • Potentially cumbersome and fragile setup with authentication and such. Could introduce security risks.
  • If you want to cram the whole world inside one application (plugins, extensions etc.), it's bound to get ugly in terms of performance, stability, complexity and system footprint.

Lets focus on opening things with some customization and flexibility on top, and also have some small tools and system interactions that might be handy in the daily workflow. On top of that there's an internal browser that can interact with Executor, where you for example can run your favorite AI, quickly open smaller websites, or create whatever you like.

Stay fast and lean

  • All Windows native compiled code at API level. No chunky cross platform frameworks (Electron, Flutter etc.). No core dependencies on bulky and slow interpreted languages (Python, JavaScript etc.). No built-in resource consuming AI, eagerly wanting your data for all sorts of reasons.

Really free

  • Fully free on a MIT license and free for commercial use. No constant agenda to get you into a paid model. No hidden agendas with (financially) promoted extensions and plugins. No investors trying to steer the ship. Of course until the Executor executive board totally sells out.

Do I need to create keywords for the programs I use? Can Executor scan these automatically?

Per default Executor will scan the start menu and add these. If you however want more control, you might want to convert some of them to keywords. In Executor type -i or press CTRL+I to open. You can also open the Keywords editor (Ctrl+K), right-click list and select Import. If you want to look into the automatic indexing of the start-menu, look in Settings > Indexing & Cache.

Can I resize Executor?

Make sure the setting "Lock position and size" is not enabled in order to resize Also the skin types "alpha" and "medium" does not support resizing. This is a known problem. If you are not using the High DPI version and you have Windows > Display > "Layout and Scale" set to more than "100%"". It's worse in Windows 11 then previous versions. You should run the High DPI version instead.

What's New

Improvements

  • When right clicking an item in the clipboard list you can select "Copy & Paste it to current window".
  • Added some optional timing parameters to $SENDTEXT2$ and $SENDTEXT3$, see docs for more info.
  • Added -skin ow to toggle one window setting.