Assign job to Pole to create useful strip with shortcuts to favourite apps (7)

'create useful strip with shortcuts to favourite apps' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot judge whether it can be defined by this definition.

'assign job to pole' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'assign' could be 'task' (tasking is a kind of assigning) and 'task' is located in the answer.
'pole' could be 'bar' (both can mean a metal rod) and 'bar' is present in the answer.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

'to' acts as a link.

Can you help me to learn more?