Everyway Panel
Windows · no admin · no install

Everything you use,
one hover away.

A panel that slides in from the edge of your screen with the buttons, switches, live readouts and mini-apps you use all day — then gets out of the way. It never takes keyboard focus, so a click acts on the app you were just working in.

One folder. Move it, copy it, done. No admin rights. Ever. Idle when closed. On purpose.
  • You're working. The panel is off-screen — nothing in your way.
  • Nudge the handle on the right edge — or press Ctrl + `.
  • Click a tile. Because the panel never takes focus, it acts on your document.
  • Flip a switch to start a job — the LED strip shows it's running.
  • Click away and it's gone. Your job keeps running in the tray.

Three reasons it earns its screen edge

Most launchers ask you to change how you work. This one waits at the edge until you want it.

One hover away

Nudge the handle on the right edge, or hit Ctrl + `. No window to find, no taskbar hunting, no alt-tab. Click outside and it's gone again.

It never steals focus

The panel stays out of the keyboard's way, so a tile acts on the app you were just in — pasting your standard reply straight into the email you had open.

Quiet when closed

Collapse it and the animations, refreshes and widget timers genuinely stop. Only the things you deliberately switched on keep running.

Six kinds of tile

Build the panel out of six simple pieces

Pick a type, fill in a couple of fields, drag it where you want. That's the whole model — there is nothing else to learn. These are the real tiles.

Paste Date
Action button

Click to do one thing

Paste text, run a program, open a file or URL, send a keystroke, run a script — or jump to another panel.

Break
Toggle / launch

An on/off switch with a status LED

The strip down the left edge is the state: dim red stopped, green running, amber paused. One click starts it, another stops it.

SystemLIVE
33%
CPU
CPU load32.9/100
Live info / monitor

A readout that updates itself

A tiny script returns the data; the panel draws it. Set it to Always and it can raise a tray alert even while the panel is closed.

1,240.50
C/* 789- 456+ 123=
Mini-app (widget)

A little app in a tile

Calculator, notes, clipboard history, on-screen keyboard, focus timer, stocks. Nine ship with it — and you can add your own.

WORKSPACE
Text label

A heading or divider

Group a run of tiles under a title so a busy panel still reads at a glance.

SPACER
Spacer

Deliberate empty space

An invisible tile that reserves a gap. You only see this dashed outline while you're editing the layout.

Nine mini-apps, already built in

Drop one into a tile and it works. No setup, no accounts — the two stock widgets fetch prices after a single click to add the package they need.

CalculatorEveryday sums without leaving what you're doing.
CalendarThis month at a glance, today highlighted.
NotesA scratchpad that quietly saves what you type.
ClipboardYour recent copies. Pin the ones worth keeping, click to paste.
On-screen keyboardType with the mouse. Modifiers latch, so Ctrl+click and Shift+drag work.
Focus timerPick 15/25/45/60, start. It beeps even with the panel shut.
Day counterTime since a date, until one, or to the next anniversary.
StocksOne symbol per tile: price, day range, a 1-day chart, optional P&L.
WatchlistSeveral symbols in one tile, each with its own mini chart.

What that looks like on a normal day

Not a new place to work. Just the small repeated things, moved to the edge of the screen.

09:02
The reply you send forty times a week

An Action tile types your standard paragraph straight into the email you already have open — with {{date}} filled in for you.

10:15
Start the thing, stop the thing

A Toggle tile starts your dev server, VPN or backup job. The strip on its left glows green while it runs. One more click stops it — or pauses it for the length of a meeting.

11:40
Is it the machine or is it me?

A Live Info tile keeps CPU, RAM and free disk in the corner of your eye, and can pop a tray alert when something crosses a line — even with the panel closed.

14:20
The thing you copied twenty minutes ago

Clipboard history is right there. Pin the account number you keep needing; it survives restarts while everything else is forgotten on quit.

16:00
Heads down for twenty-five minutes

Type the goal, tap 25, start. The countdown keeps running with the panel shut and beeps when you're done.

Make it look and behave like yours

Drag tiles to move them, drag a corner to resize. Four themes ship in the box, and a panel is just a file you can save, switch to, or send to a colleague.

Jarvis / Arc
Amber + arc-cyan on near-black
Iron Man
Red and gold
Ocean
Cool teal
Rebellion
Violet and magenta

Panels you can switch between

Keep a Work panel, a Finance panel, a weekend panel. Save the one you're looking at, switch with a tile or from Manage, and the layout, theme and column count come with it.

Kits you can send

The same file, packaged for someone else. It carries the tiles plus any widgets, scripts, themes and icons they need — and tells them, before they load it, exactly what's inside.

The bit most tools get wrong

Light on purpose, not by accident

An always-available tool that quietly burns battery isn't a tool, it's a tax. So when the panel is closed it does no work you can't see.

Closed → it stops

  • LED and alert animations
  • Clipboard redraws
  • Live tile refreshes
  • Timers inside mini-apps

All of it resumes the instant you open it.

Unless you asked for it

  • A Toggle you switched on
  • A Live tile set to Always, so it can alert you
  • An alarm you started, like the Focus Timer

Three things, each one a deliberate choice you made.

When you want more, it's a small Python file

Four things you can write, each with a ready-to-copy template. Drop the file in, hit reload in the panel header — no restart.

Write it yourself

An action, a background job, a live readout, or a full mini-app. The templates are in scripts/, and each has a walkthrough next to it.

How to write one →

Or have an AI write it

A ready-made prompt ships in the box. Paste it into any AI chat, describe the tile you want, and drop the file it gives you into scripts/widgets/.

Where to find the prompt →

If something breaks, the tile tells you

A widget that fails shows what went wrong and on which line, with a Copy details button that writes the fix request for you. If a package is missing, the tile offers a one-click install.

Put it on the edge of your screen

One folder. No installer needed, no admin rights, nothing written outside it.

Free edition

Portable, or run it from source
  • The whole app — every tile type and all nine mini-apps
  • Portable build carries its own Python: unzip and run
  • Source build runs on the Python you already have
  • Move the folder anywhere; your layout travels with it

Paid edition

Installer, per user, no admin prompt
  • Same app, compiled, with a proper Windows installer
  • Start-menu and optional desktop shortcut
  • Optional start-at-sign-in
  • Offline licence — no account, no phone-home