Find a room to yourself, with all you need and nothing more.
Roomist takes you from your desktop to a quiet room for specific tasks. These tailored rooms keep your apps, files and webpages ready for when you return. No friction, no distractions, no endless searching, just you getting on with what you set out to do.
How Roomist works
- 1Describe what you want to do.
- 2Roomist clears the desk and minimises all windows.
- 3Roomist puts the apps you need on the taskbar and gathers your files and webpages.
This first version is just for testing and can be a bit rough around the edges. If you’d like to share it with others, please let me know, so I can help them and get their feedback too.
How do I run it?
- Unzip the Roomist folder somewhere it can stay, like Documents, and keep everything in it together.
- Open
Roomist.exefrom there, not from inside the zip. - Windows may say it protected your PC. That’s only because Roomist isn’t signed yet. Click More info, then Run anyway.
The Read me first in the zip explains the rest.
What does Roomist do on my computer?
While you’re in a room, Roomist minimises whatever you don’t need and hides the Windows taskbar, putting its own in its place with just the apps for that room. It never closes your programs, so nothing you’re working on gets lost. When you end the session, your normal taskbar comes back, and if it’s ever missing, starting Roomist again brings it back. Roomist can also start when you log in, if you’d like it to.
To remove it, open Settings, then Apps, then Installed apps, find Roomist and click Uninstall. It takes away everything it added to Windows, and asks whether you’d like to keep your rooms and history.
What about my privacy?
Everything Roomist notes down stays on your computer. Once a day it checks whether there’s a newer version, without sending anything about you. You can delete everything it has noted down at any time, in Options under Further options.