Question

Does the collective genius here know of any Sidebar Gadgets, or Dashboard Widgets that help developers do their work? Tasks like:

• The ability to quickly look up functions/methods
• Class descriptions
• Stackoverflow questions filtered by a specific group of tags

You name it.

I’m desperately looking for a reason to use Vista’s Sidebar, and I would love to do so in a way that I create a more productive environment, and helps me in my day-to-day tasks.

Answer 1

One of the few that I actually use is Activity Tracker. I like (sometimes have-to) keep track of my time on various projects & support tasks — I pealed this gadget off the sidebar and dropped it on my 2nd monitor in the corner — now, an easy click and I’m off one task and onto the next — the web interface even graphs the time/projects.

Would love to see some more useful gadgets for sure.