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[Bryce Harrington <bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 07:21:36PM +0200, Lionel Dricot wrote:
> >   * Notes.  Tomboy requires Mono which is pretty sizeable on the CD.
> >     It seems to me gtg is similar enough that if it could serve as a
> >     notes tool in general, this could allow Ubuntu to drop Tomboy and
> >     (since fspot is being dropped), maybe drop all of Mono from the CD
> >     and save a LOT of space.
> 
> In GTG's early days, I added a "Note" feature. A note was simply a
> special task without start/due date.
> 
> There was a button to convert a task to a note and vice versa.
> 
> Notes would not appear in the workview and there could be an icon
> besides "tasks without tag" to see only notes.
> 
> It was removed because we didn't find a good UI for that tool.
> 
> Pretty easy to re-implement currently by defining a special tag (I'm
> volunteering). The only difficult part is to not add too many buttons to
> the interface.

Rather than a button, maybe there could just be a filter for it?

Then it could be hooked in above or below 'All tasks' maybe.  'All notes'?

> >   * Syncing with <whatever>.  I guess everyone has a favorite thing to
> >     sync with.  Certainly being able to access tasks from more than one
> >     device is important.  Ubuntu One sync would be a selling point for 
> >     including in Ubuntu.
> 
> Actually, I spend more time explaining to people that we are working on
> it than working on it. Sad.

:-)