Where is Ploum ?

Afin de gérer le stress et éviter la procrastination, j'ai dévelopé la méthode GARI (Glande Appliquée - Rangement Interdit). Vous vous souvenez ? Le monsieur au fond se souvient et il dit même que j'avais tout pompé sur GTD, ce qui est en partie vrai. Mais il nous restait à trouver un bon moyen pour gérer ma liste de choses à faire.

Quand on y pense, tout n'est jamais qu'une série de tâches. Déplacer une montagne paraît bien plus facile lorsqu'on le fait un caillou à la fois. Même si ça fait un peu tâche… (hihi, tâche, vous comprenez ? Jeu de mot subtil et raffiné).

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Short version : GTG! 0.2 is out

Last year, I met several times with my friend Bertrand to discuss how we imagine a good GTD tasks manager. On October 17 2008, Bertrand told me that he had a funny idea for a name and I immediately created the project and commited my first try with a GTK TextView widget.

2 months later (exactly one year ago), what we had was a kind of buggy monstrous experiment.

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Each year, Google is sponsoring a Summer of Code (SoC). During three months, Google pay students to work on various opensource projects. Each student should be followed by a "mentor" from the original project but the mentor is not paid, he receives a tshirt.

3 years ago, I was a SoC student and developed the now abandoned Conseil but I learned a lot from that experience.

This year, one of the GNOME SoC projects was related to Getting Things GNOME!, the software I started with Bertrand. The project was to add the concept of geolocalization to your tasks list so you would be able to see where you can do tasks. The candidate, Paulo Cabido, seemed bright and skilled. I was the mentor. Strange to be on the other side of the fence.

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Bertrand and I are very proud to announce you the first release of Getting Thing Gnome!, a personal organizer and todo list manager for the GNOME desktop.

GTG allows you to add and edit tasks with nearly no fields at all. It support subtasks and tags that you can use the way you want. It aims for flexibility. Getting Things Gnome! goal is to adapt itself to your workflow, not the opposite. GTG also brings the concept of "workview", a display of tasks that can be done right now, right here.

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