Startup Idea: Windows Session Save/Restore Application for Civil Engineers
I'm a civil engineer and work on multiple, simultaneous multi-day projects. Due to the nature of the work, it's best to work on one for a few hours then swtich to another, so it's not exactly multitasking. I may also have to close things down to go to a short meeting.
Usually for these projects, I have a number of windows open on multiple monitors. I may have two or three data files tiled for a quick view, a word document or powerpoint presentation open, and some sort of data analysis package, such as R or Excel. I've also usually got a command prompt somewhere and multiple explorer windows pointing to relevant directories.
I would really benefit from being able to have a save/restore state for all of that, including window positions. I can sort of fake it using multiple desktops, but there's two problems with that. Foremost is that it's a huge resource hog, second is that it's still kind of painful to manage.
In my ideal world, I'd have a taskbar button that I just click and either save my windows session (possibly to named projects) or open up a different session.