Task Till Dawn

Task Till DawnTask Till Dawn is a free task scheduler which can execute your repetitive tasks (i.e. open files or applications) at specified times or intervals. For example, use Task Till Dawn to automatically let iTunes download the newest Podcasts at a specified time. Or let it backup your important files every day. Needless to say, tasks can also be executed manually

The application is written in Java and therefore basically platform independent. Currently, versions for Windows and Mac OS X (Intel) are available. A Linux version will probably also be available in the future.

As this project is provided under the GPL, you can take the sourcecode and fit it to meet your own needs. Pre-compiled versions, as well as the sourcecode, are available in the Downloads section. The application is multilingual (English, German, Spanish and French). 

Tasks can be executed with a delay. This might come in handy if a to be executed application has to access the Internet connection, which often is not available directly after a computer wakes up from sleep or powers up. Additionaly, it is possible to cancel a tasks upcoming execution during this delay. In case of an error, Task Till Dawn displays a message in the tasklist. Tasks can also be disabled to temporarily avoid execution.

Different notification services can be used to notify the user whenever a task will be executed shortly. It is possible to use Growl notifications, text to speech and others as well.

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Posted by gkgold90

31. Januar 2012 - 17:06 Uhr

awsome program

Posted by David Moore

10. Februar 2012 - 17:54 Uhr

Works as advertised. Thanks.

Posted by Rob

17. Februar 2012 - 13:12 Uhr

Working fine on a iMac with OS X 10.7.3.
I only use it to run a program daily at a given time and i don't want to use iCal for the job. For this single task TTD seems a bit heavy, but okay.

Auf jeden Fall, Danke schön!

Posted by Charles Baker

17. Februar 2012 - 22:46 Uhr

Hi !

I congratulate You for your program which is very useful for me. It works exactly as I did want.
Thank You

May I suggest you two little improvements ?
- First if the program is reduced in the taskbar, il could be suitable if it disappears to save some place in it. It could be opened then by clicking on the notification icon. This feature might be parametered in the option box.
- Second, it does not accept parameters in commandline for a program to be scheduled. For instance :' MyPrg /parameters' is taken as a program whith the whole name instead of two parts. It could be useful to pass some parameters to a program to be launched.

That's all
Thank you for considering my suggestions.

CB

Posted by Mark I

18. Februar 2012 - 22:13 Uhr

Hello,

Great program! Just 2 additions that may be helpful

1. I use the program to run a few DOS based batch files and would like a way to be able to run them minimized from task till dawn.

2. A way to manually change or edit the next execution time. Sometimes if I forget to turn task till dawn back on all the batch files run and the next execution times are all the same. If there was a way to edit them so that I can stagger them again that may be helpful.

Thanks
Mark

Posted by Dan Vandre

19. Februar 2012 - 12:10 Uhr

it needs a feature where it the pgm closes itself after all tasks comlete.

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