Taskyard 0.3.1

Longer timers, and a tools widget that can stay through quick-hide.

Timer

• The custom duration is now hours (0–99) and minutes (0–59) side by side; the old 180-minute limit is gone. Anything from 1 minute to 99 h 59 min works.
• The duration you choose is saved and comes back after a restart, and a running countdown still survives sleep and shutdown.
• Minutes past 59 are refused with a hint rather than silently carried into hours.

Tools widget

• Its menu has a new Exclude from quick-hide checkbox, like a group's. With it ticked, double-clicking the desktop hides the icons and groups but leaves the widget in place and usable. It is saved per display.

Install: download Taskyard-Setup.exe below and run it (Windows 11, x64). It updates an existing install and keeps your layout and tasks. SmartScreen may show "Windows protected your PC" — click More info › Run anyway.

Taskyard 0.3.0

Windows' own right-click menus, and a centred tools widget.

Right-click menus

• Right-click the empty desktop for the real Windows desktop menu — New ▸, Paste, Undo, Display settings, Personalize, Open in Terminal and your installed extensions. Taskyard's own items live in a Taskyard ▸ submenu; View ▸ (icon size, Align to grid, Show desktop icons) and Sort by ▸ act on Taskyard, and Refresh rescans the desktop.
• Right-click an icon for its real Windows file menu — Open with, Send to, Cut/Copy, Create shortcut, Delete, Properties and extensions — plus Remove from group. Rename opens Taskyard's inline rename.
• Shift+right-click shows the extended items. New ▸ items appear where you clicked, ready to rename.
• The Windows menu runs in a separate helper process, so a misbehaving shell extension can't take Taskyard down. If it can't open, Taskyard's own menu opens instead.

Tools widget

• Timer and Stopwatch stay centred in the panel at any height; Tasks keeps the add box at the top and centres the list.

Install: download Taskyard-Setup.exe below and run it (Windows 11, x64). It updates an existing install and keeps your layout and tasks. SmartScreen may show "Windows protected your PC" — click More info › Run anyway.

Taskyard 0.2.0

Fixes and additions from real-world testing.

Groups

• The expand/collapse chevron works on a single click.
• Reorder icons inside a group by dragging them (a sorted group switches to manual order).
• The group "…" menu's Sort by, Icon size and Move to display submenus open again.
• Groups and the tools widget snap to each other's edges and to the screen edges, with guide lines; grid step 8/16/32 px in Settings. Hold Alt to drag freely.
• Expanding a rolled-up group brings it to the front, and it grows upward near the bottom of the screen.

Tools widget

• Tasks · Timer · Stopwatch tabs sit at the top, with content centred.
• New Stopwatch with laps (optionally linked to a task).
• Adding a task: a clear input with an Add button.
• Cleaner timer layout; the linked task shows under the ring.
• Timer completion shows only the Windows notification (the in-app pop-up appears only if notifications are off), and "Mark done" follows the task's real state.

Install: download Taskyard-Setup.exe below and run it (Windows 11, x64). It updates an existing install and keeps your layout and tasks. SmartScreen may show "Windows protected your PC" — click More info › Run anyway.

Taskyard 0.1.0

First release of Taskyard — a Fences-style desktop organizer for Windows 11.

Install: download Taskyard-0.1.0-setup.exe below and run it. It installs per-user (no admin rights) and starts in the tray. The installer isn't code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen may show "Windows protected your PC" — click More info › Run anyway.

Requirements: Windows 11 (22H2 or later), x64.

Tip: if another app already uses Ctrl+Alt+Space, Taskyard will say so — pick a different Peek shortcut in Settings.