Yesterday I spent most of my day hacking Getting Things Gnome. It was kind of a come back for me. I don’t remember the last time I made any contribution but I think it was about two years ago. A very long time. Shame on me!

I got current with GTG and corrected some bugs, some small ones and two “high” ones (lp:~pcabido/gtg/hackathon). Curious thing, they were all plugin related bugs. I also started getting up to date with the gtasks backend. I will be giving it some love over the next weeks.

It was the first GTG hackathon and it was fun. I hope to be participating in hackathones more often.

Another great thing I read about yesterday was a techradar article that elects Getting Things Gnome as app number 7 on the top 50 best Linux apps of 2011. It’s a motivational boost to keep hacking and making GTG better.

At this point of your life you should know about Getting Things Gnome! and how easy it makes your life!

A port of GTG for android is in my perspective far a way as there is no native python support, etc. So how can you have your GTG tasks on your android phone?

Easy!

1. Signup for a (free) Remember The Milk account
2. Activate GTG’s Remember The Milk plugin and sync your tasks with RTM
3. Install Astrid on your android phone (available on android market)
4. Sync Astrid with RTM

Signup for a (free) Remember The Milk account
Remember The Milk allows you to manage your tasks online. Just go to http://www.rememberthemilk.com and signup for a (free) account.

Activate GTG’s Remember The Milk plugin and sync your tasks with RTM
Thanks to Luca Invernizzi’s GTG plugin, Remember The Milk, it’s possible to sync GTG with Remember The Milk. The plugin is currently at version 0.3.

Plugin for synchronising Getting Things Gnome! with the web service Remember the milk  (http://www.rememberthemilk.com)
Please note that task descriptions are not synchronized in this version.
Legal note: This product uses the Remember The Milk API but
is not endorsed or certified by Remember, The Milk.

Luca’s RTM plugin is shipped with GTG so if you have the latest version you only need to activate the plugin.

Activate GTG's RTM plugin

After activating the plugin you only need to sync the tasks between GTG and RTM.

Sync tasks between GTG and RTM

Install Astrid on your android phone (available on android market)
This step is actually very easy. Just open the Android Market and search for Astrid and install it.

Sync Astrid with RTM
Open Astrid and in the Synchronization menu Activate the Remember The Milk service and also activate the Main Menu Shortcut.

Astrid's Sync menu

The Sync shortcut in the main menu comes up handy to sync Astrid with RTM with minimum effort. Then all you need is to hit the sync button.

Astrid & RTM Sync in action

That’s it. This is as simple as it can get. No more excuses for not being organized!

One more thing, by default Remember The Milk will send email notification of tasks on their deadline and it’s also a nice feature to have.

I’ll leave you guys with one more screen shot of the Astrid’s home widget that also comes in handy.

Astrid's home screen widget

Finally and for the just for those of you who are wondering, I’m using…

• … Getting Things Gnome! development version (latest trunk version)
• … CyanogenMod 4.2.14.1. I also suggest a look at http://www.openandroidteam.com for the latest android version (2.1_r2).

That’s it! Getting Things Gnome! 2.0, code name “Gorignak”, was released this week!

I won’t duplicate the release post, it’s a great post and you can read it here!

Today I just had to code. For days I’ve been studying for my last exams (I hope!). Kevin Mehall made me the suggestion to add a preferences button on the dialog manager in order to allow a user to set the preferences/configure a plugin. The idea is based on the Gedit system. I think I never gave credit to Gedit but I actually based allot of things on their plugin system.

It looks like this:

You can read about it and how to make your plugin configurable in the plugin howto along with all the other info.