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Linux GTD roll call

Hi everyone,

Anyone else using Linux as their day-to-day OS? I switched my work laptop over completely a while ago, though I still run Windows under a VMWare VM for the sake of accessing Lotus Notes and a few other work requried Windows apps.

What office pr0n tools have folks used under Linux? I've played around with VIMOutliner and GnomeTasks, along with several stand alone wikis. My team is using the NotesWiki template from OpenNTF for shared information and that's worked out fantastically.

TOPICS: GNU/Linux
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I use Linux heavily for...

I use Linux heavily for my GTD-fixated life. For work I used a Windows notebook PC (which follows me home and many other places), and on my desktop at home I use Debian GNU/Linux with KDE.

However, the core of my system is my Sharp Zaurus 5500, a Linux-based PDA. I use the plain vanilla Todo List app for my context lists, and the plain vanilla calandar. I sync the whole thing to MS Outlook on my laptop for convenience and backup, but most of the time I work the lists right from the Zaurus. (So Maybe I should be posting this in the PDAs forum?)

The only hitch in my system is that I can't fully access the email folders on my home PC while I'm on the road. At home I use Kmail, and when I'm away I SSH into my home machine and use Mutt. However, Mutt doesn't seem to work well with the mailbox format used by Kmail. Still looking for a fix for that. (It all worked fine back when I used Gnome and the Sylpheed email client.)

--T.

 
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