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[Christoph Haas <question120378@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

New question #120378 on Getting Things GNOME!:
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Not sure this is the right Launchpad feature to use for ideas. I was evaluating a few task/todo applications and even trying to get into GTD (which is too hardcore for me). For a few months I've now been using GTG and at first it felt like the perfect application to order my todos. But while working with it on a daily basis there are a few annoyances. And I'd like to know whether it's planned to remedy those.

*** What I love about GTG:

Tags and colors: help me get a good overview. And clicking on a tag to filter for tasks with that tag. Cool feature. I also use tags or tasks I delegated to another team member. I set the due date to when I expect the task done. And the start date to the date when I intend to ask the delegate about the status to make sure the deadline is met.

Quick-entry for powerusers: really fast way to add tasks in a few seconds.

The work view is nice. It's probably the main idea taken from GTD. Compared to other (hardware) GTD applications I find it easier to switch between the list of all tasks or just those that are useful to work on.

*** What works less for me

No print view. I have a weekly meeting with my manager. And I tag tasks as @boss that I need to discuss with him. Would be great if I could print those with start and due dates and the actual content/comment of that task

The search function drives me mad. Searching only works for the beginning of a task. Currently I have ~100 tasks and it's virtually impossible to find a certain task without reading through the whole list. I wish I could search for any word in the task name or content/comment.

I wish I could have different categories of tasks. At home I have a set of tasks like what to fix, what to buy, what to paint, what to do. But I can't use GTG for that because i already use it for my work tasks. If only there were different categories/lists of tasks to switch between.

I often miss a way to sync the GTG tasks on my laptop with those on my work PC. Yes, I can rsync the files on disk. But what if I changed tasks on both computers? I'd overwrite them on one of the computers. (Syncing with remember-the-milk is not an option for me. I'm too paranoid to share my confidential work tasks with a public web site.)

After quick-adding a task I can't find it in the huge list any more. I wish it would open up the window so I can add details. (Goes together with the limited search feature.)

Subtasks in work view make no sense. Honestly I barely use sub tasks. They somehow don't seem to make sense for my work style. But if I use them then the work view becomes even weirder. The work view doesn't show the parent item so I lack the context of the sub task. Imagine I have a list of things to buy from the supermarket (okay, I made this up). Then one of the sub tasks could be "milk". In the work view I would just see "milk" and don't see that it's connected to buying things from the supermarket.

[I saw that GTG is written in Python. I'm a Python enthusiast. But my experience with GUI toolkits is limited. Still I wonder if I should check out the code and see if my brain works well enough to actually submit useful code.]

I'd be curious to hear what you think of these issues.


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