Maybe Getting Things Gnome doesn't fit in your workflow ? Fair enough, there are other tasks managers you can try.

At first, I didn't wanted to write a software. I just wanted to find a good tool even if it would require that I contribute to it. I've been using most of the following softwares for weeks, even for months so I can fairly say that they simply *don't* work for me.

For each software, I will also explain why I didn't contributed to it and instead choosed to create yet another tasks manager. I speak here only for myself but I think that Bertrand has a similar experience.

The first I tried to use to implement GTD.

Evo GTD.

The problem is that entering a new task is cumbersome. At best. Entering tasks was so painful that I had a paper with the list of tasks I should enter. And that after 20-30 tasks, Evolution was just not useful anymore to me, being just a huge pile of "stuffs" that I didn't wanted to do.

Also, I wasn't satisfied to have the todo in the same application as the mail. I really believe in the UNIX way : one task, one application and I wanted a separate tasks manager.

A really nice little program that keeps a list. That's it, it's only a list. If your tasks are only a list, then Tasks will perfectly do the job for you. Tasks does its job and do it fine but it's simply not what I was looking for. It makes no sense to imagine current GTG features in something like tasks which was designed with small screens/mobile devices in mind.

We just didn't understood that. It just looks like as Tasks but not as good and connected to RTM. In fact, I didn't even managed to enter a single task in that system. I've tried Tasque after each release, I've tried the Tomboy plugin. I just don't see what it does. Maybe having a RTM account would help here.

That's probably one of my favourite software. I just cannot live without Tomboy. But I never managed to use it as a todo manager. I've tried several plugins but it's just not Tomboy's job. And I'm not sure that adding a todo feature to tomboy would be nice. Like I said : one task, one application.

Taskcoach is a really good software with support for subtasks. I highly recommand it to everyone looking for a complete tasks manager with time tracker and stuffs like that. The problem I had with taskcoach is that it was too much. The interface is too complicated. Adding a task is, like in Evolution, a real nightmare and I just didn't entered my tasks into Taskcoach. Also, there is no equivalent to the GTG workview and my task list was quickly a huge mess. The wx interface was really horrible in my personnal usecase. After each upgrade, I had to "rebuild" my preferences by drag-n-dropping pane where I wanted them and wx is just the worst when it comes to that. Really. Awful.

I've thought about getting into Taskcoach code (it's python) but it's not a GNOME project at all. Having gnome integration in Taskcoach doesn't make sense. I think that Taskcoach is a bit like OpenOffice while GTG wants to become an Abiword.

From Taskcoach, we borrowed the coloured lines in the task list ;-)

I tried gtodo when it was in early development as I was on the same gnome forum as the developer. It was a very basic todo list, like Tasks but even more basic. It was then abandonned (or it looks like it is).

Chandler looks very promising on the paper. But once you start using it, well, you have to adapt yourself to it. Most of the things wasn't working for me. After several tried of several days, I just gave up. Also, I didn't wanted to install a J2EE chandler server so I completely dismissed Chandler. It looks really nice but I think I was just not smart enough to understand it. And it was also crashing all the time.

The todo manager with a name that even Michael Meeks likes !

Conclusion

All the softwares we tried were so far of what we imagined that it didn't make any sense to contribute to an existing project. Why do you think that the Rhythmbox developpers created their software instead of contributing to VLC or XMMS ? Well, we were in the exact same situation and we choosed the hard way : creating our own software.