Setting up a new feed is very easy: Copy the feed address to the clipboard and paste it into the Makagiga setup dialog. In order to provide topic- or task-specific news quickly and clearly, many websites offer their own RSS feeds. When you quit, Makagiga automatically stores all the content before closing and shows you the same tabs and folders when you restart so that you can continue working seamlessly. When you enter content in your virtual desktop, you do not have to save it separately. The content of the tabs on the right varies, depending on the folders on the left in the tree view.
You can stick your notepads (widgets) to the pinboard, and add a second page to the bulletin board by clicking on 2 below the tabs. When you create a new folder or tab via New (top left), it appears on the right in the pinboard, where Makagiga has already preconfigured a to-do list and widgets. After the call, Makagiga starts surprisingly quickly, showing a program window with an empty pinboard ( Figure 7).įigure 7: The heavyweight among personal GTD managers: Makagiga. Since the program directory also comes with icons and a small script called makagiga.sh, which creates a starter, it integrates into a menu structure without any problems. Then call Makagiga via java -jar makagiga.jar.
The software is available as a 33MB 7z archive, which you unpack and drop into a directory. Automatic integration with the uniform interface means that there is no need for time-consuming installation work.
You can download plugins from the repository and integrate them into the task folders in Makagiga. The range of plugins extends from simple text-viewer modules for certain formats to a wiki tool for viewing and editing wiki texts, a graphics program, and an electronic topographic map based on OpenStreetMap. Makagiga's functionality goes far beyond that of a plain vanilla to-do manager: In addition to a pinboard and an appointment calendar with corresponding to-do lists, the software also provides an RSS reader and can be extended with various plugins. It does not matter whether you use OpenJDK or Oracle's JRE.
Makagiga comes in three versions for Linux (32- and 64-bit systems, as well as a portable version) and requires a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) on the installation system.
This is a mixed feature and bugfix releaseBug fixed: Task Coach wouldn't start on Ubuntu 12.Makagiga, a to-do manager for the desktop written in Java, is available under the free Apache 2.0 license. This is a mixed feature and bugfix releaseBug fixed: Task Coach wouldn't start on Ubuntu 12.04Feature added: Added support for pipe as separator symbol when importing from CSV Changes Then again, once you get the feel of Task Coach Portable, it's up to you to use as many - or as few - fields as you like.Īs far as easy to use task schedulers go, Task Coach Portable is one of the more user friendly and intelligent out there, although maybe it's a little over the top for most people's needs. All of these features mean that it's really easy to track and sort your tasks.Īs useful as Task Coach Portable is, however, you can't help feeling you spend more time fiddling with the app rather than actually getting the tasks done. For those working to a time schedule, Task Coach Portable also allow you to track time spent on certain jobs or tasks. They can also be viewed as a list or a tree and sorted by attributes, e.g. Tasks in Task Coach Portable can be labeled with a subject, description, priority, start date, due date, completion date and an optional reminder.
Task Coach Portable enables you to create, edit and delete tasks and sub tasks, which means it's much easier to see how the different parts of a master task relate to one and other.