Technology Temple

Another week has gone, and new ways to syn­chro­nize things to do have landed in my “Get­ting Things Gnome!” branch.

First of all, there is a new two-way syn­chro­niza­tion engine for tasks (com­plete with test cases), which will be the core of all the back­ends to come.

The first back­end using that is the new TOMBOY–GTG syn­chro­niza­tion: the idea behind this one is that some of you are used to use tomboy to take quick notes, but then they real­ize that they also need that note in their todo list. With this back­end, just adding a tag to the note (like “@tomboy-gtg”) will auto­mat­i­cally add that note to GTG the next time you start it.

So, basi­cally, it’s a way to super­power some of your notes, giv­ing them a way to get sched­uled in your super-busy third-millennium life.

Screen­shot is due:

For now, two-way sync is work­ing for all tasks (not fil­ter­ing them yet), and a few bugs have to be ironed out, the most impor­tant of which is that GTG some­time issues the dele­tion of all tasks when it’s quit­ting (which is rather unpleasant).

Next week, I’m plan­ning to get this plu­gin ready for the users. Then, I think the Remem­ber The Milk back­end will fol­low, and shortly after Evo­lu­tion and CouchDb.

Another week has gone, and new ways to syn­chro­nize things to do have landed in my “Get­ting Things Gnome!” branch.

First of all, there is a new two-way syn­chro­niza­tion engine for tasks (com­plete with test cases), which will be the core of all the back­ends to come.

The first back­end using that is the new TOMBOY–GTG syn­chro­niza­tion: the idea behind this one is that some of you are used to use tomboy to take quick notes, but then they real­ize that they also need that note in their todo list. With this back­end, just adding a tag to the note (like “@tomboy-gtg”) will auto­mat­i­cally add that note to GTG the next time you start it.

So, basi­cally, it’s a way to super­power some of your notes, giv­ing them a way to get sched­uled in your super-busy third-millennium life.

Screen­shot is due:

For now, two-way sync is work­ing for all tasks (not fil­ter­ing them yet), and a few bugs have to be ironed out, the most impor­tant of which is that GTG some­time issues the dele­tion of all tasks when it’s quit­ting (which is rather unpleasant).

Next week, I’m plan­ning to get this plu­gin ready for the users. Then, I think the Remem­ber The Milk back­end will fol­low, and shortly after Evo­lu­tion and CouchDb.