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[Luca Invernizzi <question120378@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #120378 on Getting Things GNOME! changed:
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    Status: Open => Answered

Luca Invernizzi proposed the following answer:
> *** 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
> 

You should look into the "Export and Print" (if I recall the name
correctly) plugin. It can generate a report from the tasks your
currenlty viewing in GTG. So, select @boss, launch the plugin and export
them in HTML or TXT.
It supports custom templates, so you can write a PDF export if you want (via
latex) or customize the current ones. If you write some template, you can send
it to us so that we can add it to GTG!

> 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.
We're aware of that. A nice way to search is the most important feature planned
for GTG 0.4, so it should be available next winter/spring.
If you have an idea for its behaviour/UI, comment in the bug open for that:
we're looking for ideas.
> 
> 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.
Do you know you can create subtags? Just drag and drop a tag over another.
Does that solve your problem? If not, open a bug and submit ideas!
> 
> 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.)
Next GTG version 0.3 should have a CouchDB syncronization, among other ways.
That's what Ubuntu One uses (if you know what that is). You can set up your own
way to sync.
For this, I'm thinking that maybe a "directory backend" would be useful.
That would be a directory where each file is a task, so that it's rsync
friendly. whant do you think about this?
> 
> 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.)
Yes, I think that too, and there is no bug open for that: open it. Some people,
however use the quick-add to add a "big" number of tasks in bulk, so for them
opening the window would not be really nice, as it steals focus. Maybe there
could be away to make both categories happy.
> 
> 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.
We're aware of that. Look in "there is no link to parent task" and "projects"
bug (sorry, no links, I'm on a 1kb/s network now).
> 
> [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.]
Great!
> 
> I'd be curious to hear what you think of these issues.
> 
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