For months, I’ve received pings about a screenshot I posted on social media a year or so ago.
Plus I needed to wind down. You real runners will know what I mean: You know how you feel after you’ve covered some distance (for you)? You need to walk around for a bit, you can’t just stop cold. You need to wind down. I needed that after the effort to release SSIS Catalog Compare v2.
astreams became the coding-equivalent of a wind down.
I’d been using another application that kind-of-sort-of did what astreams does but astreams is cleaner, in my opinion.
So, how does one use astreams? Open it. It’s empty:
Right-click in the treeview and click Add Stream to begin adding a new stream:
Type the name of the new stream:
Press Enter when done:
Right-click any stream to add a sub-stream:
As before, begin typing to enter the sub-string’s name:
Also as before, press Enter when done:
You can nest streams as deeply as you like:
You may equate streams with tasks. Check them off as you complete each stream:
When you’re done, you can save an individual stream by right-clicking and selecting “Save Stream File.” You can save all the streams loaded by right-clicking and selecting “Save Streams Folder”:
Select a folder and click OK:
Your streams are stored in JSON format in the selected folder:
You can manage streams by copying, pasting, editing, and deleting the JSON files, if you’d like.
As you can see by viewing one of my streams folders, I use the utility often:
It is a simple and flexible utility. I find it very helpful for tracking what I’ve done and what I need to do.
You may purchase astreams here.
Enjoy!
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