teoNI would suggest playing with it. A sample project wouldn't really help without a side-by-side explaining everything. The concept is simple enough though.

1. An adapter has a property for StartMyDay. This is set to either None (not using SMD), Manual, or Automatic. When using Automatic, the adapter will simple be started by the StartMyDayController (more on the below). When using Manual, an event will fire from the StartMyDayController that you can use in an automation to trigger something more than the start of the adapter (perhaps whenever you start the adapter, you also need to run another process, this will let you do that).
2. The StartMyDayController is a component on the Advanced section in the toolbox that has methods for using SMD.
3. Adapters also have a StartMyDayControl property that you can use with the StartMyDayController to "remember" the position of windows via the StartMyDayController dialog.
4. The StartMyDayController has several dialogs that it would be easier for you to examine. One of which allows a user to select which applications they want included in SMD as well as remember their positions to be placed there for the next run.

http://help.openspan.com/191/Innovations/Start_My_Day_Component.htm

http://help.openspan.com/191/Innovations/Start_My_Day_Properties,_Methods,_and_Events.htm

http://help.openspan.com/191/Innovations/Using_the_Start_Dialog.htm

http://help.openspan.com/191/Innovations/Using_the_Manage_Applications_Dialog.htm