Like Peter said sometimes the mouse is painful. I found myself clicking start then run and typing in the name of the .exe file. Then I found slickrun. This utility allows you to associate words with programs. I also associate words with folders so for example when I want c:\program files\someprogram\datafiles I associate the word datafiles with "start c:\program files\someprogram\datafiles". When I tell slickrun datafiles explorer opens the folder for me. I don't like hotkeys in general. The slickrun site has a paragraph about why they arent that great. All I remember and use all the time is ctrl-c, ctrl-x and ctrl-v

There is a down side to slickrun. The mechansim that it uses to stay on top seems to screw with the alt-tab alt-shift-tab order of windows. I heavily use alt-tab to flick between programs. When you do the current window goes to position two and the position two windows comes to the front and goes to position one in the alt-tab list. Slickrun holds that first position on the list and annoys the crap out of me somehow. Unfortunately it is not open source so fixing it may mean creating my own which needs time.

The startmenu gets cluttered to easily so you can use slickrun and/or actively modify the menu. So many programs I use are only run when I double click on the file. I remove these icons from the startmenu eg winamp. Other programs seem to want a whole folder on the start menu for themselves (eg program icon, help file, readme file, uninstall icon). If I use the program it alone goes in the start menu. Even driver installs seem to put crap in the start menu. See how long it takes for explorer to load that startmenu when there are ~5columns and it takes up most or all of the screen. For a slim calendar reminder system I like rainlender Currently I am working on a system to hook all my PDA and computer information together. First I am looking at contacts and calendar items. iCal goes onto webserver for access from everywhere (eg Macs at work). Rainlender syncs from outlook. Outlook is emminently scriptable with vbscript. Unfortunately outlook saving appointment as iCal file sucks So I am working why and how to get around. I have a Ipaq amd an iPod. Sychronisation with ipaq is easy but I have found backups very important and thus I should automate them. Also I would like to link with the office timesheet - billing system so I don't have to fill in any time sheets manually.

Basically I am writing this when I want to go home and I don't know if it is quite the stuff you guys are after so I havent edited this message well but if this organisation stuff is along the lines that you are interested in please email me :-)