IsleBar

Ask from the taskbar.

Click the pill or press Ctrl+Alt+C, type what you want done, and press Enter. A terminal opens and runs Claude Code or Codex with your question.

• ↑ ↓ bring back your last 50 questions.
• Long questions get a preview above the bar; Shift+Enter opens a multi-line box.
• The ⌄ button keeps your options: session, model, effort, permissions, remote control.

Drop a file, then ask.

Drop a screenshot or a log on the pill — its path lands in the box, ready for your question.

• Set a Drop command in Settings to make dropping do something else.
• How I use it: dropped files go straight to my phone over Telegram, through a small script of my own.

Codex, too.

Codex CLI gets exactly the same working · needs you · done. Its mark is read from the Codex extension already on your PC — IsleBar ships no OpenAI logo.

• Orange — the agent is asking you something. Answer in the terminal and it goes back to working.
• Green — done, with a soft chime. It stays until you look, click, or close the session.
• Several sessions? The most urgent one shows, and a small dot means there is more.
• Red — the plan's usage limit was hit (with the time it resets) or a turn stopped on an error, and why. At 90% of a usage window you get a heads-up first.

Timers in two keystrokes.

Type 25m, 90s or 1h 30m and press Enter. Only the digits that change roll over.

• Hover for pause and stop. When it ends you hear a sound and the pill turns green.
• Right-click for quick timers, Pomodoro (25 / 5 / 15 minutes, adjustable) and a Stopwatch.

Every file, instantly.

Press Tab and type — matches from every drive appear above the taskbar as you type, powered by Everything.

• Enter opens, Ctrl+Enter shows it in File Explorer, Esc takes you back.
• Tab again for web search, with an engine that fits your language.

Downloads, at a glance.

Downloads from Chrome, Edge, Firefox and other browsers show while they run, and Done with the file name when they finish. Click to see the file in File Explorer.

Music, tinted to the album.

Spotify, YouTube in your browser and most players show with album art, level bars and a progress line in the album's colour. Hover for ⏮ ⏯ ⏭.

If an agent finishes mid-song, the green border lights up without hiding the music.

Quiet notices.

Headphones, charging, internet, copied text, heavy CPU or memory, focus sessions, calendar events, microphone or camera in use — each shows for a moment, then gets out of the way. No pop-ups.

Colours mean one thing each: orange when an agent needs your answer, red when something needs fixing — a low battery, or an agent stopped by its usage limit or an error — and green when something is done. The chime stays quiet during Do Not Disturb, and can be muted over full-screen games and videos.

Light and dark.

IsleBar follows your Windows theme and recolours itself the moment you switch — no restart.