Tracks is a web-based application to help you implement David Allen’s Getting Things Done™ methodology. It was built using Ruby on Rails, and comes with a built-in webserver (WEBrick), so that you can run it on your own computer if you like. It can be run on any platform on which Ruby can be installed, including Mac OS X, Windows XP and Linux. Tracks is Open Source, free and licensed under the GNU GPL.

I have been using tracks for some time now, as it was the best choice I could find for a ToDo software that was simple but also good looking, like some of the commercial applications that are out there. Since recently I had to move my installation to another server, I thought to document it and hopefully this might be useful for other peoples also. The official project docs are a little outdated and don’t take advantage that now debian etch has full support for all the needed dependencies and they can be easily installed from debian repositories (except tracks itself ).

The instructions will show how you can install and run tracks using MySQL and the built-in WEBrick server. You can run trakcs with SQLite/SQLite3 or Postgresql if you prefer, and for this look into the installation.html file that comes with the source. Read the rest of this entry »