Are there any GTD apps that sync with any of the common bug tracking apps?

Question

I'm trying to decide on a GTD app. Does anyone know of one that automatically syncs with Trac or, better yet, FogBugz?

My suspicion is that none does. Which leaves me with writing a script that does it for me.

• Things stores its data in XML, but the contents of the tags are all binary, which makes writing a script nigh impossible.

• OmniFocus stores its data in XML, and the contents are literal text. Plugin or script is possible.

• The Hit List stores its data in a sqlite3 database. Possibly easier than XML, but I'm not sure yet. The downside is that THL doesn't support recurring tasks, which makes it less useful as a GTD app.

Has anyone tried this? Have I missed an obvious app?

Answer 1

Tomboy has some level of Bugzilla integration but nothing complex. Alternatively it would be fairly trivial to sync something plaintext based such as Vimoutliner (IMO: possibly the best GTD application ever) or Taskpaper.

Probably in terms of easiness it would go: plaintext > XML > Database > Binary format X

You could just use wget and/or a simple perl script to download the tasks then run a few regular expressions to get it formatted correctly e.g.

<li> ... </li> -> [ ] ...

or in code:

s!<li>(.*)</li>![ ] $1!g

Answer 2

Why not use the task features of the bug tracking systems you're looking at as your GTD tool? Also have you looked at (task coach)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task_Coach] It stores all its info in XML.

Answer 3

ThinkingRock - Java application, XML data format with plain text, supports recurring tasks. No automatic integration built yet that I know of, but another possible option to script for.