When comparing GNOME To Do vs Go For It!, the Slant community recommends Go For It! for most people. In the question“What are the best productivity tools for Linux?” Go For It! is ranked 6th while GNOME To Do is ranked 7th. The most important reason people chose Go For It! is:
Depending on your workflow, this can help you stay focused. Moreover it reminds you of regular, short breaks in between.
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Pros
Pro In active development
They are working on grid and task planner like views.
Pro Deadlines
Setting deadlines is pretty easy.
Pro Priorities
You can give tasks priorities, and they are clearly defined.
Pro Syncs to some other task lists
I thinks it needs the GNOME settings manager to sync to Google and Microsoft's To Do lists.
Pro FOSS
That's good...
Pro Built-in productivity timer
Depending on your workflow, this can help you stay focused. Moreover it reminds you of regular, short breaks in between.
Pro Uses the Todo.txt format
Todo list are stored as plain txt files in a directory that can be specified by the user.
This allows to synchronisation via services like Dropbox and use it with Todo.txt frontends for other platforms (including mobile).
Pro Simple user interface
The user interface is very simple and minimalist.
Pro Free and open-source software
The source code of this application is freely available and everyone can contribute to it.
Cons
Con Linux only
No Windows or Mac support (though I guess you could make it work yourself, yay FOSS)
Con Notifications don't look too nice on Windows
Due to limitations of Vala + Gtk on Windows I have not found an easy, elegant solution to display "native looking notifications".
