Zanshin is a powerful yet simple application to manage your day to day actions, which aims at getting your mind like water.
It helps you organize and reduce the cognitive pressure of what you have to do in your job and personal life.
Zanshin uses Qt 5, a free and open-source widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces as well as cross-platform applications that run on various software and hardware platforms.
“Getting Things Done” aims to teach its users a process by which they can trust a set of tools to handle the “remembering” and “organizing” of their everyday work, leaving their brain free to focus on the things that really matter.
Key Features
- Collect your tasks and free your mind.
- Attachments are supported for tasks.
- Tasks scheduled in the future can be filtered out
- Control Zanshin with the keyboard only. There are keyboard shortcuts for everything including adding tasks, moving them to a project or a context, navigate, etc.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: zanshin.kde.org
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Kevin Ottens, Mario Bensi, Franck Arrecot
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

Zanshin is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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