NoteBar: Windows taskbar toolbar indicators

NoteBar is small indicators for Windows taskbar those can display a colored dot or a custom icon.

NoteBar is a clone of AnyBar

Install

You can install using Chocolatey

choco install notebar

Usage

First you must launch NoteBar. To run NoteBar right-click the taskbar, in the pop-up menu that appears, click Toolbars and then click NoteBar.

Next you can run indicator by execute in powershell

notebar

If NoteBar is not launched you'll see a dialog box to add NoteBar on your taskbar.

NoteBar is controlled via a UDP port (1738 by default). Send it a message and it will change a color:

$Message = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes("black");
(New-Object System.Net.Sockets.UDPClient).Send($Message, $Message.length, "localhost", 1738)

The following default commands change the style of the dot:

white
red
orange
yellow
green
cyan
blue
purple
black
question
exclamation

And one special command forces NoteBar to quit: quit

Running multiple indicators

You can run several indicators as long as they listen on different ports. Use -p or --port command line argument to change port:

notebar -p 1738
notebar -p 1739
notebar -p 1740

Custom icons

NoteBar can detect and use local custom images stored in the %APPDATA%\NoteBar directory. E.g. if you have %APPDATA%\NoteBar\square.png icon, send square and it will be displayed. Icons should be 16×16 pixels.