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 Alex

28. März 2012 - 10:15 Uhr

absolutely brilliant!
one of the best apps I've used in a long, long time.
Thank you :)

Posted by papouatsevran

29. März 2012 - 10:49 Uhr

Bonne appli,peut-être plus d'options
_lancement ouverture/fermeture de session
_possibilité de passer des parametres aux programmes

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Posted by Alex

30. März 2012 - 12:51 Uhr

thanks! awesome program

Posted by George Rudd

2. April 2012 - 11:47 Uhr

I found your app while looking for a lightweight app that was easier to configure than triggering script with iCal. Setting up a repeating trigger every 105 minutes in iCal is a bit of a pain. I have only done limited testing but so far your app seems awesome.

I am using your app in conjuntion with Keyboard Maestro to run scheduled tasks on a server.

Thanks!

Posted by Iain Whyte

7. April 2012 - 12:11 Uhr

Hi,

Thanks for Task til Dawn - very nice.

Two peices of feedback:

Feedback form has a spelling mistake "no matter whether positive oder negative". should be 'or'.

Also, when Task Til Dawn is running without a dock icon, it seems to stop a clean shutdown of the system - you get a 'Task Til Dawn prevent shutdown', but at that point Finder has already quit, so you're in Limbo.

Posted by Emile

12. April 2012 - 09:27 Uhr

Nice tool. I tried to Copy/Paste a task from the Edit Menu, but unfortunately the choices are shaded. Do you know why ?
Thx, Emile

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