Silverwill v1.6

Silverwill addresses a common need, that of managing to-do lists of tasks.

Many people manage their day-to-day activities with lists. People keep lists at work, at home, everywhere they go so they don't forget what needs to be done.

Lists lie at the heart of fundamental management. When you give people more than one job to do, the good ones make lists in one form or another. When your boss gives you something to do, you add it to your list. Workers gain satisfaction by completing items on their lists. Managers gain satisfaction by observing the completion of tasks and reporting successes to clients.

Wouldn't it be great if you, your workers, and your boss used a simple electronic system of managing your lists of things to do? The benefits jump to mind right away. With the right software tool, tasks could easily be passed from person to person. With the ability to track status and to capture notes, this shared list quickly becomes a powerful vehicle for communication between you, your staff, and even your clients.

That is what Silverwill was designed to do. Software Engineering needed such a tool but could find nothing that offered the ease and simplicity desired. Complex and expensive software systems are available to tackle this problem. Most of them go far beyond the needs of Software Engineering to the point of becoming unusable due to complexity and associated training requirements.

Managers need a simple and effective means of expressing their will to their workers. Workers in turn need a simple and effective means of communicating the progress and status of their work to their managers. Silverwill is designed to fill this need with elegant simplicity. Redundancy is avoided. The result is a clean simple interface to an incredibly powerful system of communication for managers and workers.

Silverwill fits the size and structure of your organization, no matter how large or how small. Silverwill is an effective tool whether you work alone or in company with thousands of others arranged in countless tiers of managers and workers. Silverwill is designed to be effective whether or not your entire organization uses Silverwill. A single person or team can immediately benefit by using Silverwill. No information is lost if the rest of the organization decides to get on board with Silverwill later.  In fact such a transition is quite easy. Silverwill fits your organization today and grows with you into the future.

Silverwill was developed in a multi-platform environment. Sharing a common PostgreSQL database, Windows and Linux users collaborate seamlessly using Silverwill. The illustrations on this page show Silverwill running under Windows XP and Linux. Style differences aside, the full power of Silverwill is ready for you no matter which operating system your computer is running.

Complete Silverwill documentation is available from within the program by pressing the Help button at the top of every tab page. The Silverwill on-line documentation can also be viewed by following this link.

Silverwill is not adware, spyware, hackware, or any other such devious concoction. The Silverwill files that can be downloaded here do not contain viruses, worms, cockroaches, bedbugs, lice or other pests. Installation is isolated to a single folder with subfolders; the uninstall is complete, leaving no files behind. Software Engineering is committed to producing excellent quality software that is genuinely useful. Silverwill is not malicious or mischievous in any way.

A free trial version of Silverwill can be downloaded here. The download package contains the complete software product. A licensing dialog appears while running the trial version to remind you to purchase a license. After a license is purchased, Software Engineering issues a password that eliminates the licensing dialog.

Silverwill costs only $19.95. The Policies page provides details about bulk discounts, support and upgrades.

Silverwill v1.6 for Windows - Almost 4MB

Quick Install Instructions
    1. Run SilverwillSetup16.exe.

Silverwill v1.6 for Linux - Almost 6MB

Quick Install Instructions
    1. gunzip silverwill.1.6.tar.gz
    2. tar xvf silverwill.1.6.tar
    3. Create a launcher to run ./silverwill/silverwill; there is an icon at ./silverwill/silverwill.png.