An Ode To BasKet 0

Posted by timgoh
on Saturday, June 16

It is very sad news when a project you like has been abandoned/orphaned. This hasn’t been confirmed for BasKet yet, but it’s the current situation:

BasKet Note Pads has no developer anymore. Without new developers, I’m afraid the project will have to be stopped (and unavailable on KDE 4).

I am a big fan of BasKet—it is excellent for free form note-taking. Amongst other things I use it for my highly bastardized version of GTD.

Tangent

I skimmed through the GTD book (despite my distaste for self-help books) and found the process too heavy for my tastes—I am no high-powered executive with hundreds of reports. I extracted two things from the book:

  1. have multiple to-do lists which are updated regularly
  2. only put time-sensitive tasks on a calendar, and have reminders for them
I use BasKet for the former, and Google Calendar with e-mail notifications for the latter. It works for me.

I’d love to help out, but my C++ is really rusty (crummy excuse, I know).

My current plan is to pick up C++ again, and if by the time I get somewhat decent at it no one has picked BasKet up, I will see if I have the C++ moxie and enough time to do what I can for an excellent piece of software I’ve come to love.