Technology Temple

Hello there, Planet GNOME! I’m Luca, one of the devel­op­ers of Get­ting Things GNOME!. I’m tak­ing this lit­tle empty space between posts in your RSS reader of choice to present you to some of the awe­some things that will be fea­tured in the next major ver­sion of GTG (due next fall). Pre­order your copy now!

In the Cloud

In the near future, GTG will free your task from the cage of your hard disk. I know that some of you are already using the plu­gin for syn­chro­niza­tion with Remem­ber The Milk (that’s one of my most pop­u­lar plu­g­ins ), but we are talk­ing about more seri­ous busi­ness here.

In short, you will be able to import/export/synchronize auto­mat­i­cally all or part of your tasks into a vari­ety of Back-ends. On top of that there will be an easy UI to rule them all.

Back-ends will include:

• Remem­ber the milk (full syn­chro­niza­tion with notes, tags ...)
• Evo­lu­tion Tasks
• Launch­pad (auto­matic import of bugs assigned to you / all bugs in a project / all bugs with a cer­tain tag..)
• Zeit­geist (export­ing com­pleted tasks — have you seen that Zeit­geist now sup­ports ham­ster?)
• Ubuntu one sup­port (CouchDB)
• Twitter/Identi.ca (auto­matic import of direct mes­sages tagged with #TODO — or some­thing of your choice)
• Xml (for backups)
• Email
• ...

You will choose what to export and where, by “attach­ing” tags to a back-end. That is, if you want all your work tasks to be on your Remem­ber The Milk account,  just tag them @Work and add a RTM back-end syn­chro­niz­ing only the @Work tags.

There­fore, be joy­ful! You will have your TODO list every­where, even on your Win­dows machine we all know you’re keep­ing in your basement.

All of this will be done thanks to the the  “Google Sum­mer of Code”, which kindly changes my “I should be work­ing instead” thoughts to “hell, I’m working!”.

Not a big fun of com­mer­cial online ser­vices, even if they are (beer) free? We have the FLOSS!

Snowy-like web ser­vice for GTG

This will be a child of Karlo Jez, as another GSoC project. We’ll soon be hav­ing our web inter­face! A mock-up to whet your appetite

Speed

Big chunks of GTG have been rewrit­ten to make you feel like your com­puter is get­ting more pow­er­ful as it gets old. Now you can pro­cras­ti­nate thou­sands of tasks!

UDS-inspired improve­ments

Projects: We heard your requests for a way to add “projects” to bet­ter cat­e­go­rize tasks! Noth­ing is decided yet, but we’re work­ing on it . We’ll be also work­ing on the indi­ca­tor icon, ... oh, too much work! Where is my beer?

Call For Ideas!

If you’ve read so far then, con­grat­u­la­tions, you can tick off “Read  Luca’s GTG post” off your TODO List.  You could add another task, though. Some of you have told us that GTG icon set is too sim­i­lar to a clip­board. We are think­ing about ren­o­vat­ing it, and it would be nice to see some pro­pos­als. So, sketch up, and post here there results!