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February 20, 2012 - 1:16am
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TaskUnifier

Program: TaskUnifier

Website: http://www.TaskUnifier.com/ & http://sourceforge.net/projects/taskunifier/

Description: (from website) TaskUnifier is a task management software based on the well-known GTD (Getting Things Done) methodology. It will help you manage your tasks and therefore your time. TaskUnifier is free and open source.

Features

* Task manager
* Based on GTD
* Contacts, contexts, folders, goals, locations and notes
* Sub-tasks
* Powerful search/sort/filter mechanism
* Calendar view

License: Open Source/BSD

Other: May be synced with Toodledo or published to Google Calendar or Tasks via plugins. Multiplatform. Requires Java. Actively developed with frequent updates implementing feature requests & bug fixes.

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February 21, 2012 - 7:54pm
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I'll take a look

In the mean time, I'm not sure if you're aware, but I got something similar called GTD-Free Portable up in the beta forums.

EDIT: Looks pretty easy; one folder, and one file to take care of is it. I'm concerned about the (BSD 3-Clause) license agreement, however, particularly the third bullet:

Neither the name of TaskUnifier or the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

@John, will that be an issue? I'm not aware of any of our apps that are BSD 3-clause.

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February 26, 2012 - 1:12pm
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I looked at that

I already took a cursory look at GTD-Free. It caused multiple Avast & Comodo FW warnings when I launched it. Also looking at system directory/file tab (don't remember exact name under About), it was set to save data in the logged-on user profile. I could be wrong since I didn't actually save anything & your launcher may clean up afterwards. The biggie is it doesn't look as fully-featured as TaskUnifier & also lacks the ability to sync to Toodledo (a key point for me). The sync/publishing plug-ins should all work without buying a license; they just have a built-in delay & you're not even required to use them.

As for the BSD license, I'd almost bet that the dev would a) give his permission & b) might even be willing to come on board PAc if asked. I haven't asked him myself since I didn't want to get in the middle!

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February 26, 2012 - 4:00pm
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Yeah

it was set to save data in the logged-on user profile

Yeah, that's hard-coded into GTD-Free. There's no way around it, nor any settings file I can modify to change where it's default location to save is.

As for the BSD3, I was hoping John would reply, but I guess I can ask the devs (I doubt they'd say no anyway).

EDIT: Just sent the developer an email about the possible issue.

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March 5, 2012 - 11:06pm
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Any word?

Not to be impatient but I'm curious if you've gotten a response from the dev yet. You also might want to play around with TaskUnifier - you may find you like it better than GTD-Free!

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March 6, 2012 - 3:24pm
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I released it a few days ago

https://portableapps.com/node/31363

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March 9, 2012 - 2:37pm
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Wow

Pyro, you so rock! I only wish I'd known about it sooner so I could have been testing it for more than the last couple days. I think I'm done here & will make the rest of my comments on your new dev test thread...

Thanks again!

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February 26, 2012 - 4:01pm
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GPL?

According to their SF project, they are GPL.

The name of it would be similar to a trademark, you need permission for it.

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February 26, 2012 - 4:08pm
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In the Files section

...there's licence.txt [sic] in the root that says they're BSD 3-clause.

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February 26, 2012 - 6:15pm
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Sic?

That's not a mistake. It's only American which spells licence (the noun) as license. In England and Australia at least, it is still as it was for a long, long time; the noun is spelled as licence.

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February 26, 2012 - 7:06pm
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We Won

Yeah, but we won. It's licence (263 million) to license (1,900 million) in Google results. So licence gets a [sic]. Blum

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February 26, 2012 - 7:25pm
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Invalid comparison

The word "license" exists as a verb in the English Pure, and so your comparison is rendered invalid.

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