Getting Things GNOME!
Recently I had to notice that I have to maintain a lot of projects and so I have been searching for a software tool that fits into my workflow with a maximum of ease of use.
I have tried several solutions, amongst others: Tasque and ThinkingRock. I had installed the latter one for almost a year, but never really used it, as it takes too much time to drop a quick note on a thought. Tasque is great if you want to use Remember The Milk as the backend, but in fact I did not want an online based tool for several reasons (connectivity, security, etc.). There is also a simple SQLite-based backend, but that lacks of a working category support. Other options have been Korganizer, TaskCoach and some simple to-do list programs — none of them fit my needs.
After crawling the web for days, I stucked on a little tool called: Getting Things GNOME!
GTG focuses on usability and ease of use. Its main objective is to provide a simple, powerful and flexible organization tool to the GNOME desktop environment.
The GTG user interface provides several convenience features that I find particularly advantageous. It has a quick-add entry box which allows users to create new tasks on the fly without having to input any extraneous data. Users can optionally specify tags for the task directly in the quick-add box alongside the task title. Another nice user interface feature that I like is the Work View, which will give you a flattened and filtered view of your task list with immediate action items.
The only tiny downside of GTG is that there is no method to minimize GTG to your system tray — but that will probably be part of the next release.