Two months ago, GNOME To Do was introduced to the outside world. People got (unexpectedly, I must admit) excited about it, and said that the app looks promising. A month lated, another version was release with a bunch of new features.
Now that we’re reaching the 3.18 release, it’s time to settle things down and stop the heavy development phase (which, by the way, should have stopped 3 weeks ago!). Let’s see what changed.
The Icon
Yes, you read it correctly. GNOME To Do finally received an icon, and the best of all: from the amazing Jakub Steiner! Take a look:
Selection Mode
The biggest highlight of this development cycle is the new selection mode. Following the GNOME selection pattern, it enables deleting & renaming tasks.
Some tasks are undeletable (something I couldn’t resolve reliably in time) and the Delete button gets insensitive for them.
Renaming tasklists is quite pleasant too:
Error handling
Something that almost missed this release, To Do is now able to report errors that may happen. Error reporting, while it may sound too technical, is very important for the users to be able to share their issues without a major burden.
Cleanups, cleanups, cleanups
Many fixed and cleanups were introduced. A whole class of annoyances was fixed, making GNOME To Do very pleasant and smooth to use. I sincerely hope that this small and simple application will help you organize yourselves and, at the very end, optimize your life and make you guys happier & healthier!
As always, a screencast of the cited features:
Update: don’t forget to check the brand new GNOME To Do page!
Georges Stavracas 
Very Nice, I always look forward to the Screenshots & Updates on this App in my Gnome News Feed 🙂
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Nice stuff, one little note, the suggested action on a single button popover, while good looking is kinda silly.
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I’m trying to be consistent with all other GNOME modules.
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This looks awesome!
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Do you have plans to add time-tracking to this application, I think it will be so awesome if it have some notifications to keep you focused on your work and remind you if you’ve deviated a little 🙂
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Could you please develop your ideas on the time-tracking feature? I never thought about it, but the idea amazed me!
How do you imagine it?
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I thought of it as Hamster does it (but hamster is still doing it the GNOME 2 way, though it has gnome-shell extensions): https://github.com/projecthamster
There’s a lot of cloud-based business solutions like: RescueTime [http://www.rescuetime.com], Toggl [http://toggl.com] and TrackingTime [http://www.trackingtime.co].
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Thanks for the examples! I’ll study these solutions and see how we could seamlessly integrate them on GNOME To Do.
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I love the idea of a “minimalist personal task manager designed to fit GNOME desktop”. I don’t know if there’s being discussed before but it would be nice to have something to sync like owncloud support or anything open source too that can work outside the corporate stream.
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Looks nice!
I read somewhere that for a good user experience you should really avoid reasking if you really want to delete something. Why not have a small bar at the bottom that informs about the deleted objects with an option to revert the action of deletion?
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