Power Strip

The universal command bar for your desktop.

Your workflow stays where your brain expects it.

Digital work scatters by default. Files land in downloads. Notes spread across apps. Useful actions hide behind menus, windows, and tabs.

Power Strip gives your most-used tools, automations, captures, agents, folders, and project actions a stable place on your desktop. Click it, drag to it, or drop work onto it without leaving the thing you are doing.

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One place for the things you reach for constantly

Folders Pinned documents Agents Automations Browser capture Clipboard saves

Stable Targets

Work by place, not memory

You do not always remember the exact name of a folder, command, or workflow.

But when something lives in the same place long enough, you recognize it. You know where to drop the file. You know where the action is. You keep moving.

That is the difference between another menu and a real work surface.

Power Strip stays on screen across every application. It remembers where you place it. It remembers which commands you want visible. It even remembers your preferred position per app: left edge for VS Code, right edge for Chrome, wherever you want it.

The things you reach for most become familiar targets, not items you have to hunt for.

Drag, Drop, Done

A handoff should feel this fast

Power Strip is built around drag and drop because that is how fast a handoff should feel.

Drop a file onto a folder button and it lands in the right project location. Drop a document onto an agent button and the agent runs on it. Drop content onto the strip itself and it gets captured into your project.

You can also drag things out. Recents, pinned documents, search results, folder contents, clipboard items: anything in a Power Strip panel can be dragged into another application. The strip works in both directions.

Tools And Agents

Agents live at the surface

This is where Power Strip connects to something deeper.

You can add agent buttons directly to the strip. Each one binds to a specific ThinkForge agent. Click it to run. Drop a file on it to feed the agent. Configure reference documents and an output folder once, then use it repeatedly without any setup.

You can also add automation buttons that run multi-agent pipelines. Drop a file and the entire chain executes.

And any command on the strip can have agents attached to it. A folder drop can trigger an agent after saving. A clipboard capture can process its content through an agent automatically. The strip does not just store and organize: it acts.

The full depth of what you can build and run lives on the Tool Forge & Agents page →

Context Aware

Desktop and browser, one surface

When Chrome is in the foreground, Power Strip adds browser commands automatically. Save an AI chat from ChatGPT or Claude. Capture a page or a selection. Run an agent on browser content. When you switch away from Chrome, those commands disappear and the strip returns to your desktop layout.

This happens without any manual toggle. The strip knows what context you are in.

It matters because useful work happens in the browser constantly: research, AI conversations, documentation, reference material, and most of it stays trapped in tabs. Power Strip gives that content a way into the project without copy-paste or manual export.

More on how browser capture works on the Chrome Extension page →

Instant Capture

Capture before it disappears

The strip keeps common capture actions within reach so you can preserve useful context the moment it appears.

Quick notes. Clipboard saves. Page captures. Selection grabs. File drops. Each one takes a single click or drag, and the content lands in your project immediately.

This matters most for the small things. The snippet you copied but would lose on the next copy. The quick thought that would not survive opening a full editor. The browser content that would vanish when the tab closes.

Project Access

Folders and shortcuts where you need them

You can add multiple folder buttons to the strip, each bound to a different project folder. Click one to browse its contents in a compact panel. Drop a file on it to save directly into that folder. Create new documents, subfolders, and notes from inside the panel.

Pinned documents, shortcuts, and recent files each get their own panels too. The things you return to most stay one click away, not several layers into a file tree.

Make It Yours

Power Strip adapts to how you work

Add or remove commands. Reorder them. Set the layout to vertical or horizontal. Adjust the transparency so it fades when idle and comes forward when you need it. Lock it in place or let it float. Collapse it to a thin bar that expands on hover.

You can have a "Research" folder, a "Drafts" folder, a "Summarizer" agent, a "Reviewer" agent, and a "Content Pipeline" automation: all as separate buttons, all configured independently, all on the same strip.

Digital work scatters by default.

A note in one app. A file in downloads. A conversation in a browser tab. A folder somewhere in the tree. A tool behind a menu you forgot the name of.

Power Strip gives the actions you use most a visible, stable, familiar place. Over time, you stop searching and start reaching.