kammanta 1.0.11a0

A productivity and life organizing application where data is stored as text files and directories

Please note: This is a prototype in early development

Kammanta

Kammanta is a productivity and life organizing application inspired by the GTD© methodology, and with two attributes that set it apart:

• Data is stored as text files and directories (the actual names of files and dirs are used)
• The application is free software (free as in freedom) which means that the source code is open, and you can copy and create your own application if you want

Installation

The application is developed on Ubuntu. As of now some features may not work on other major platforms like Windows and MacOS

Using pip

Debian-based Linux systems (for example Ubuntu)

pip3 install kammanta

This will install the application into the ~/.local/bin directory

(Detail: The actual files are in ~/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages, ~/.local/bin only contains the startup script)

Launching the application: ~/.local/bin/kammanta

Windows and MacOS

pip install kammanta

Running from source

Linux systems

Requirements:

• Python 3.8
• PyQt 5.14 (and PyQt5-sip)

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Launching the application:

1. Go to the installation directory in a terminal
2. ./starts.sh

Features

• Data is stored in plain text files, so it's possible to access the files in other ways and on other devices than desktop
  • ex: the user can have a list of errands that she can access on her mobile phone
• The GUI is updated if files are updated, so that it's possible to work with both the application and a text editor at the same time

Screenshots

Videos

click-to-play-video-file

Understanding the application

Definition of "item": _

Backend

All data is stored in the file system. Names of dirs and files are used for projects and contacts. Lines in files are used for Next Actions and agenda items

All items can have support material

Files and dirs

Some special cases of files:

• Link files (.desktop for GNU/Linux atm)
• Text files
  • Note files, used in the inbox (when adding/taking notes)
• Image - sometimes previews are shown

Support material:

• If we have a desktop link we can refer to the support material which can then be another file, a directory, etc
• If the item is another type of file that file itself will be the support material. A typical example is a text file
• If the item is a directory that directory will contain all the support material

Lines (in a text file)

At the end of a line it's possible to have a reference to support material. This is a piece of text that follows the "|" character. It can refer to a website, text file, directory, etc