Sketch a tool, and Volatic builds it.

Draw it where you want it.

On a new tool the page is blank. Drag to draw a box, and write in it what should go there.

• “The jobs and who is doing each”, “total owed”, “a chart by month”.
• Press Build tool, and each box becomes a working part where you drew it.
• A line under the page says which step the build is on. Stop leaves the tool as it was.

Or say what it is for.

Describe the tool in a sentence and press Build tool.

• Say what each row should work out and the table does the sum: “the hours and my rate, and what each day comes to”.
• A few figures in and answers out, such as the litres off a roof, becomes a working-out sheet.
• Attach a file as rows to load, an example of the rows, or a description of the tool.

Change it by asking.

Select a part and say what it should show, then press Update this part.

• Ask for a setting in words: “stop the count at 50”, “print them eight to a page”.
• Tick “Keep this name” and a later build leaves the name alone.
• Look changes the tool’s colours, typeface, cards and spacing.

A tool can be an app of its own.

Choose Make it an app from a tool’s menu.

• It gets a shortcut in the Start menu or on the Desktop, as you choose.
• The shortcut opens the tool in a window of its own, with its own name and icon.
• Volatic’s window can stay closed.

Tasks show their steps first.

Describe a job with several steps, such as “add every invoice in my Downloads folder to the renovation tool”.

• Volatic lists the steps it would take, and runs them when you press Run task.
• A step that goes to an outside service says where it goes, what it sends and what it will do there, and asks you to allow it.
• You set how far each service may go: not allowed, reading only, or reading and changing.