Getting Things Gnome - Linux Productivity Resurrected

Productivity Apps on Linux are seeing quite the revival, from specific apps for designers like Akira, Inkscape, or Krita, to pure organizational tools like Planner. One such app that has been around for a long time is Getting Things GNOME. It has recently been ported over to a more GNOME 3 look and feel, and it's now a strong contender to my favorite, Planner. Let's see what it can do!

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What is Getting Things GNOME ?

GTG is a productivity app, an improved to do list, based on the Getting Things Done principle. This basically boils down to sort your tasks into an inbox, where you then either do the task if it's very small and quick, or put it away into various categories that you created, like "important", "to read", "later", etc...

The Features

Where GTG shines, though, is with its advanced features:

GTG supports tags, which lets you sort your tasks. Tags can also be hierarchical, so you can nest tags inside other tags to really filter down your task list. Tasks could be created for various projects, and then parts of these projects, or you could group them by context, to do all the tasks that are related in one go. For example, if a task requires me to phone someone, I can add a "phone" tag, and then find all my tasks that need me to give a call to anyone, and do them in just one go, to be more efficient.

Since you can add multiple tags to a task, you can use both organisation systems at the same time, with projects and contexts, or any other sorting method you're comfortable with. To add a tag, just type the "@" symbol and then the tag name, so you can create them on the fly, or you can click the "add tag button" for a list of all your tags.

The tasks are displayed with 3 states: open, actionable, and closed. Your open tasks are all the tasks you've created. The "Actionable" view allows you to see tasks that you can actually do something about. For example, you could have created a task to repaint your kitchen, but it's not doable before you've actually bought some paint, so that "paint the kitchen" task can be marked as non actionable. It won't show tasks that have a start date in the future, or tasks that still have unfinished subtasks.

You can even set a whole tag to not show up in the "Actionable" view, if you want to avoid displaying certain tasks that are not purely productivity related, and not clutter your task list.

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