Open Source Linux Task Managers
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View 56 business solutionsBrowse free open source Task Managers and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Task Managers by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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Task Coach
Free flexible open source todo manager featuring hierarchical tasks
Task Coach - Your friendly task manager. Task Coach is a free open source todo manager. It grew out of frustration about other programs not handling composite tasks well. In addition to flexible composite tasks, Task Coach has grown to include prerequisites, prioritizing, effort tracking, category tags, budgets, notes, and many other features. However, users are not forced to use all these features; Task Coach can be as simple or complex as you need it to be. Task Coach is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and GNU/Linux; and there is a companion iOS app. -
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TaskExplorer
Powerful system task manager
TaskExplorer is a powerful system task-manager / process-inspector tool designed for Windows that goes well beyond the capabilities of the built-in Task Manager. It provides real-time insights into running processes, threads, open handles, network sockets, memory usage, modules loaded, and more — all in a unified, fast, and efficient GUI. Rather than scattering information across tabs or dialogs, TaskExplorer displays detailed data in a panel layout: when you select a process, the lower panel updates dynamically to show relevant info (threads, handles, sockets, modules, etc.), making deep inspection quick and intuitive. It includes advanced panels: a Thread Panel with stack traces (helpful for diagnosing deadlocks or hangs), a Memory Panel that lets you view or even edit process memory (with search capabilities), a Socket Panel showing open network connections, data rates, pseudo-UDP connections (via ETW), and a Modules Panel listing all loaded DLLs and memory-mapped files. -
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VYM (View Your Mind) is a tool to generate and manipulate maps which show your thoughts. Such maps can help you to improve your creativity and effectivity. You can use them for time management, to organize tasks, to get an overview over complex contexts
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Hatchet
A distributed, fault-tolerant task queue
Hatchet replaces difficult to manage legacy queues or pub/sub systems so you can design durable workloads that recover from failure and solve for problems like concurrency, fairness, and rate limiting. Instead of managing your own task queue or pub/sub system, you can use Hatchet to distribute your functions between a set of workers with minimal configuration or infrastructure: -
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Feng Office (formerly known as OpenGoo) is a free and open source online project management and collaboration tool, licensed under the Affero GPL 3 license.
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Request Tracker (RT)
Request Tracker, an enterprise-grade issue tracking system
Request Tracker is an open-source, enterprise-grade issue and ticket tracking system. It helps organizations manage workflows, customer requests, and internal project tasks efficiently. -
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XXL-JOB
A distributed task scheduling framework
XXL-JOB is a distributed task scheduling platform for managing and executing jobs in Java-based applications. Designed for scalability and ease of use, it provides a powerful web interface for task definition, monitoring, and execution. XXL-JOB supports various scheduling strategies, distributed execution, failover, and script-based job execution. It is widely adopted in enterprise systems for background task orchestration and automation. -
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Ásbrú Connection Manager
User interface that helps organizing remote terminal sessions
Ásbrú Connection Manager is a user interface that helps organize remote terminal sessions and automate repetitive tasks. It simplifies the management of SSH connections and supports various features to enhance productivity. -
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Beads Viewer
Task management system for coding agents
Beads Viewer is a visualization tool designed to display, inspect, and interact with “bead plots,” graphical representations often used in statistical analysis, time series exploration, or clustering visualizations where data points are represented as beads on strands or axes to emphasize patterns and relationships. The viewer provides an intuitive graphical interface that automatically renders bead plots from structured data inputs, enabling users to observe trends at a glance, highlight clusters, or drill down into individual sequences. It supports dynamic interactions such as zooming, filtering by criteria, selecting subgroups, and exporting views for reports or slides. Because bead plots can encode a significant amount of information in compact visuals, Beads Viewer includes customizable styling options — such as coloring by category, adjusting bead size and spacing, and toggling axis representations — to help tailor visuals to specific analytical needs. -
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BullMQ
Message Queue and Batch processing for NodeJS and Python
BullMQ is a powerful, modern Node.js library for creating and managing robust job queues, built on top of Redis. It is designed for handling distributed jobs and messages in scalable applications. -
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better-all
Better Promise.all with automatic dependency optimization
better-all is a TypeScript library that reinvents the familiar Promise.all construct by automatically analyzing and optimizing dependency graphs between asynchronous tasks, enabling maximal parallelization without manual orchestration. It addresses a common limitation where developers must manually refactor their promise chains to achieve efficient concurrency when some tasks depend on others, which can be error-prone and hard to maintain. With an object-based API, each task is declared as an asynchronous function that can reference other task results using a magical this.$ context, allowing the library to kick off independent operations immediately and only wait for dependent results when needed. This approach increases readability, reduces boilerplate, and optimizes execution timing based on actual dependency relations rather than naive static ordering. -
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huey
A little task queue for python
huey is a lightweight task queue for Python applications. It gives developers a clean API for running background jobs outside the main request or execution flow. The project supports several storage backends, including Redis, Valkey, Redict, SQLite, the file system, and in-memory storage. It can execute tasks with processes, threads, or greenlets, which makes it adaptable to different workloads. Huey also supports scheduled tasks, recurring tasks, retries, task priorities, result storage, expiration, locking, rate limits, timeouts, pipelines, groups, and chords. Overall, it is a practical option for Python teams that want background processing without the complexity of a heavier distributed task system. -
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TaskUnifier
Manage your tasks
TO DOWNLOAD THE LATEST RELEASE, GO HERE: https://www.taskunifier.app/app TASKUNIFIER CODE HAS BEEN MOVED TO GITHUB: https://github.com/leclercb/taskunifier-app TaskUnifier is a task management software based on the well-known GTD (Getting things done) methodology. It will help you manage your tasks and therefore your time. -
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Genji Scrum-Tool
web based Scrum tool, customizable, feature rich and easy to use
Genji is a web based Scrum tool and task management system. It offers powerful filtering capabilities, many customization features, reports, integration with Jenkins, SVN, Git, Maven, and more. Support for RACI project management matrix and the Getting Things Done method is built in. -
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AI Dev Tasks
A simple task management system for managing AI dev agents
AI Dev Tasks is a Markdown-based task management system for AI-assisted software development. It provides structured prompt files that guide an AI coding assistant through feature planning, PRD creation, task breakdown, and implementation checkpoints. The project is designed to work with AI-powered IDEs and CLI agents such as Amp, Claude Code, Windsurf, and similar tools. Instead of asking an agent to jump directly into code, users can follow a staged process that clarifies requirements before implementation begins. This helps reduce vague tasks, missed edge cases, and uncontrolled agent changes. ai-dev-tasks is most useful for developers who want repeatable AI workflows that turn feature ideas into organized implementation plans. -
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MyT - Project Management
PHP & MySQL/SQLite -based Project Management System
MyT (Manage Your Team) - is a free open source task management and project management system, based on Yii Framework, easy to use and with a great perspective of growth for the future. You can create one or more Projects and manage several types of Tasks for each one. You can also create and manage Timesheet hours. Myt can send email notifications based on some events, such as Task assignments and Project associations. All features are configurable from the Administration Panel. -
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Jira Desktop Unofficial (JDU)
Jira Desktop Unofficial is a clean, focused desktop wrapper for Jira.
Jira Desktop Unofficial is a clean, focused desktop wrapper for Jira. No tabs. No distractions. Just Jira in its own window — fast, secure, and memory-efficient. Think of it as giving Jira its own dedicated workspace on your desktop, similar to how Slack, Discord, or VS Code operate as standalone applications, but without the resource overhead of traditional Electron apps. 🚀 Getting Started - Download the latest release from the GitHub releases page : https://github.com/cas8398/jira-desktop-unofficial - Install the app for your operating system - Launch and enter your Jira instance URL (e.g., https://company.atlassian.net) Focus — Enjoy your distraction-free Jira experience! 🎯 Supported Jira Instances - Jira Cloud (*.atlassian.net) - Jira Server (self-hosted) - Jira Data Center ------------------------------------ ⚠️ Windows Users: WebView2 Required ⚠️ This app uses Microsoft Edge WebView2 for rendering on Windows. Please ensure it’s installed on your system be -
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Ganib | Project Management Software
Open Source, tasks, bug tracking, agile scrum, timesheet, wiki
Ganib gives simpler ways to keep your projects organized and on track. Take advantage of easy features that help you quickstart and makes your team more efficient and productive. Open source Web based online agile project management collaboration software free, J2EE platform, MySql database with project dashboards & reporting. Organized Teams & Projects: Easily plan & manage projects with intuitive features to help your team deliver on time. Quickly focus on what's important, easily select actions to take. Be efficient for everyday work, project tasks, important details, and timelines. Tasks: Set milestones, tasks, subtasks with duration and dependencies to teams better organized. Scrum: Communicate effectively with your team using scrum, wikis & discussions to make better decisions. Timesheet & Tracking: Track the time spent in real time using gTrack desktop tool with desktop screenshots. Bug Tracking: Manage bugs. Demo: http://www.ganib.com -
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Mindwtr
A complete Getting Things Done (GTD) productivity system for desktop a
Mindwtr: The Privacy-First GTD System Mindwtr is a Getting Things Done (GTD) productivity tool designed for "Mind Like Water." It runs completely offline—no accounts, no tracking, and no subscriptions. The Core GTD Workflow Capture: Instantly offload thoughts to your Inbox. Clarify: Process tasks rapidly with the built-in "2-Minute Rule" timer. Organize: Sort tasks by Contexts (@work, @home), Areas, and Projects. Reflect: Keep your system trustworthy with a guided Weekly Review. Engage: Filter Next Actions by energy level or time available. Powerful Features Local-First: Your data lives on your device (SQLite). You own it 100%. Flexible Sync: Sync privately via File System (Syncthing, iCloud) or WebDAV (Nextcloud). Focus View: A unified dashboard for your calendar events and next actions. Kanban Boards: Visualize projects with drag-and-drop columns. Stop managing your data. Start getting things done. -
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FreeplaneGTD+
Freeplane add-on for task management and memo taking
Freeplane is a widely used mind mapping tool. GTD is a time management methodology by David Allen. Freeplane GTD is an addon, that can collect tasks specified in a mindmap, thus allowing the users of Freeplane to use the concepts of GTD in their mind -
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A simple yet powerful task management and time tracking application. Supports a hierarchy of projects and tasks, multiple taks timers, data export to a comma-separated file, detailed time log, dynamically computed summaries of used time per each project
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Features: web2.0 project- & task-management, timetracking, team organizing, resource management, calendar, interface for your clients and lots more! Content: see license.txt (file section).
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agnostos is a small task management system in perl and mysql. It allows for users, workgroup and department.
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This is task management software for people who want to record, remind and monitor any task/job/ project. It provides facilities for breaking tasks into smaller and smaller tasks. All releases come with netbeans project and graphics files.
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Notetask - Task & Notes in Plaintext
A simple application for creating and organizing task lists, offering
Notetask is a cross-platform application for managing task lists that include completion status, task description, and notes. Each task can have a due date and be marked as a favorite with a star. It uses its own storage text format based on Markdown. It is designed to help you quickly organize a large number of small routine tasks. You can enter tasks directly in the app or paste raw text from the clipboard — such as a list of requirements or ideas — then sort them into groups, set durations or amounts, and start working right away. Perfect for managing project to-dos, bug lists, feature requests, and other ongoing tasks.
