GTD native application for desktop and mobile.
This is a project I have been thinking and talking about for more than 10 years.
I have used a "light" version of David Allans Getting Things Done (GTD) idea for even longer. I wrote an app for Android in 2013 VikingGTD that I a still use to organize my life. However, I want something that runs on multiple devices - so I can use it on my laptops and my phone. I also want it to use location and my energy level to suggest the most relevant next action - as well as reminding me abot people to ping and tings I need to get from nearby shops when I move around. Not to mention delegation and cooperation with other people.
This is a pretty large project for a lone hacker. It involves a server part, a desktop app, an Android app and probably an IOS app.
Everything is open source. I will probably offer a hosting-plan for people who don't wan to run their own backend. But for people and companies where privacy and security is paramount, the code for the server and the apps will be freely available.
The app is a real, native application written in C++ using the QT framework to be cross platform for user interfaces across operating systems. The advantage of a real, native app, over "web apps", is that it's faster, leaner, and that it comes without any of the constraints of "software" that is really nothing but a web-page.
The app currently require to be connected to a back-end server that keeps it's data and state. The reason for this is that I want to work seamlessly with the app on various devices, without having to "sync" anything. So whenever you change something in the app on one device (for example on your phone), the change is immediately available and visible on any other devices (for example your MacBook and PC). In the future, the plan is to have an off-line mode where the app can work without a connection and then push all the changes to the back-end when the connection is back online.
The application at this moment is "pre-alpha", which means that lots of things are unstable, or not ready yet.
(or are supposed to work)
- Green Days
- GTD
- Actions
- List (tree of lists)
- Due dates (Year, quarter, month, week, date, time)
- Recurring actions
- After i days, weeks, months, quarters, years
- Specific weekday, first/last day in month
- Time Tracking
- Calendar (day plan)
- Time Blocks
- Actions in Time Blocks
- Overlap
- Reports
- Weekly overview
- Linux desktop (Debian, Ubuntu)
- MacOS
- Windows 11
- Android
I'm working towards an Alpha version in August 2024 and a Beta in September.
The application use CMake, QT 6.8 and require g++-13 or clang-17. It's developed under Linux (Ubuntu 24.04). The server require boost version 1.84 or newer.
If you don't care about the server, you can start the required components using docker.
bash bootstrap-and-run-backend.sh
After that, you can start the client application, and it will connect to the signup service
in the back-end. You may need to specify the address in the server info according to the
output from bootstrap-and-run-backend.sh.
When you are done testing, you can stop the containers with this command:
docker stop signupd-devel nextappd-devel na-mariadb-devel