Issue23 / Top 5

Tasque

http://live.gnome.org/Tasque

Tasque is a simple yet powerful GTK task manager. It has standard to-do list features such as multiple lists, but what really sets it apart from the othersStrong are two things: Remember the Milk and/or the Evolution integration.

Remember the Milk is without a doubt my favorite web-based task manager, and Evolution is one of the best PIM clients around. The superior integration of these two applications are what really makes Tasque one of the most popular task managers on the Linux desktop, and my personal favorite.

To install Tasque, use the `tasque` package in the `universe` repositories.

GToDo

http://blog.sarine.nl/

The prize for the oldest and most respected task managers goes hands down to GToDo, the ancient Linux to-do list. It's been around for ages, but it still has the tools you need.

Included are multiple task lists, an export-to-HTML function, multiple categories, priority, a tray icon, notifications, advanced sorting, and much more. You can also get a handy Gnome panel applet for accessing your task list from the task bar.

While it doesn't have all the bells and whistles of an application such as Thinking Rock, it is an incredibly useful task manager for being such a barebones application.

To install GToDo, use the `gtodo` package in the `universe` repositories. You can also get the tray applet using `gtodo-applet`.

Makagiga

http://makagiga.sourceforge.net/

Makagiga is a powerful mini-PIM app. Along with multiple to-do lists, it includes an integrated RSS reader, notepad, support for collecting images and links, bookmarks, a presentation mode, built-in search engine, console, and plugins for anything else you can think of.

It even supports widgets and themes. Despite the fact that it's written in Java, it's neither bloated nor out-of-place on a Linux desktop (it uses Oxygen icons, but looks fine in Gnome).

Makagiga isn't in the repositories yet. However, you can install it with the .deb package at http://url.fullcirclemagazine.org/2dda71

QuickList

http://quicklist.sourceforge.net/

QuickList is a way to, well, quickly make lists. It's actually for more than just to-do lists, acting more like a database program. At the beginning, you can add text, numeric, date, or time into left, center, or right columns.

You can then input data into the columns just as you would a spreadsheet. It's perfect for a barebones to-do list since you can add basically whatever feature (name, description, date, time, priority, completion/incompletion, and so on) by just adding another column.

Users familiar with spreadsheets and database programs will feel especially at home.

To install QuickList, use the `quicklist` package from the `universe` repositories.

ThinkingRock

http://www.trgtd.com.au/

ThinkingRock is the most popular GTD-style task manager around. Based on the popular lifestyle pioneered by David Allen, this is a powerful (but very hefty) app. It's not just a to-do list; it's a powerful time-management tool to help simplify your life.

It has everything you could possibly imagine, including criteria, topics, context, and much more. As the website jokingly notes, "If you don't have time to download and use this software, then you really need it."

So if you like GTD and don't mind heavy Java apps, check out ThinkingRock.

To install ThinkingRock, follow the instructions at http://url.fullcirclemagazine.org/848f54