Light Panel

From KsL Software Utilities:

Light Panel was designed to be an easy way to run programs. It is a very small application that stays on the Windows desktop. Light Panel contains all your favorite programs, links, documents and urls that you place on it. Just drag-and-drop any object from an Explorer window to the Light Panel bar. Clicking on a program icon will run this program or, if it is a document, it's associated program. Also you can create buttons for exploring any folder on your computer as a multi-item menu. The program allows to have unlimited amount of icons for files and programs. The number of folder speed buttons depends on width of desktop. It is posiible to give any names to folder speed buttons and reorder them.

Light Panel has another very usefull ability - it may quick store you notes into any text file you select. For example, if you are reading mail and see an interesting paragraph that you wish to store for futher reading, you can just select by mouse this part of text, copy it to clipboard and click on the Light Panel icon in tray. Light Panel will scan clipboard for your text and store it into a file. The name of the file may be choosen by you. Also it is possible to have many note files for various themes and to switch between them.