1. Make a duplicate of the database that you’re having problems with;
2. Open up the duplicated database and see if you can import files;
3. If yes, get rid of the original database and keep using the newly duplicated one.

If it does not work after step 2, please contact us.

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This article describes a feature that is only available in Pagico v4.2 r1028 or later.

When you set a password for a database, a Sign-In screen will show up every time that database is being opened up. Starting from Pagico v4.2 r1028, you can customize the background image of the Sign-In screen very easily. Here’s an example of a Sign-In screen with custom background image.

How to

First of all, you need to go to the Sign-In screen, by using either the “Lock database” menu command, or simply closing the database and re-opening it up.

Note: You can only do this with databases with password protection. To set password for a database, please go to the database preference panel.

Then, drag an image file (jpeg, gif, png supported) into the Pagico window. The new image will take place momentarily.

Here are a few things you should know…

• Avoid using images that are too large. Using large images will greatly increase the time the Sign-In screen takes to load
• Avoid using BMP images, which are generally 10 times larger than the same images in JPEG format.
• Use wallpaper-sized images when possible. The background image will be scaled up (or down) to fit your window size.
• Background images are database-specific. That means you can have different backgrounds for different databases.

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In many cases, you might want to attach files to specific tasks (or list items). To do this, you just need to utilize the interlink feature.

Step 1: Create the task (or list item), and import the file(s)

In this example, I’m trying to attach the file (Sample Page.html) to the task (Review page design). Please note that the file does not need to be immediately after the actual task (or list). It could be placed anywhere within the same project (or contact profile).

Step 2: Write an inline link to the file in the task description area

In this case, simply write something like: Look at [Sample Page.html]. You can do the same with text notes, too. Save the current item to see the link.

Syntax for inline linking to files

You can use square brackets to link to files in the same container (project or contact profile) by referring to their names:

[ filename ]

Step 3: Clean up by hiding the actual files (optional)

In most cases, to reduce clutter you might want to hide the actual file items after linking them with tasks or notes. You can actually do this by hovering your mouse onto the file item, and click on the “Hide” button. The file item will be invisible, unless you check the “Show hidden items” checkbox, which is located in the right upper corner of the current project (or contact profile).

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Pagico has compatible features for GTD

Pagico is a product that is designed for resource and task management. In its task management aspect, it provides many features that are compatible with GTD. Before getting into the details, please note that Pagico is not solely designed for GTD, so you might occasionally find some GTD-specific features missing. But on the other hand, GTD is a system that has many requirements and restrictions (many of which are quite strict and specific). So in many cases you can consider Pagico to be a more open and flexible platform that does not impose certain rules and frames to you than a pure GTD program.

Collect

In Pagico, you collect new information easily using the Inbox feature. To make things easier, you can take advantage of the Pagico Helper program, which runs in the background with just an icon in your menu bar. When you have new info, simply click on its icon, choose a type of data (file, note, or task) and save it. Everything will be stored in your Inbox automatically. Data stored in your Inbox is accessible in all your databases, so you don’t need to worry about categorization at all. In Pagico, you can use Inbox not only for tasks, but also for files and notes!

Process

Start with tasks in your Inbox. Complete short tasks immediately, or delegate bigger tasks into their corresponding contacts or projects by using the “Move to…” feature.

Organize

There’s not too much to say about project management in Pagico — simply go ahead and create projects! One thing that needs to be mentioned is the “Next actions” concept in GTD. In Pagico, there isn’t a “Next” section. Instead, you have a “Today view” which shows all the most-important and less-important tasks. In short, tasks that are listed in the “Must Do” list are considered to be your “Next actions”; while tasks that are listed in the “Might Do” list are candidates for your “Next actions”. The good part? You can drag tasks around to decide how you want to get them done.

You can also create Someday tasks in Pagico, too.

Review

This is really where Pagico shines! There are many ways for you to review your current status. Simply take a glance of the intuitive dashboard flowchart, or check out the All tasks section to see all your completed, scheduled, and someday tasks.

Context tags?

Although Pagico does not officially give you a dedicated spot to write tags for tasks, it can be done however. Simply use the @ syntax (e.g. @work) to write tags in task title or description. By doing so, the text after the at sign will be displayed as a tag, and you can click on it to see all projects matching the selected tag.

When you want to see tasks with specific tags, simply do a search (e.g. search for @home). I know it’s not the perfect way, but it works.

Teammates

Managing teammates or co-workers in Pagico is also very easy. Simply create a profile for each one of your teammates, and throw resources into the respective profiles. And again, you can store everything: tasks, lists, notes, and files. Even better, you can create interlinks across projects and contacts.

Conclusion

This is by far a complete tutorial for implementing GTD in Pagico. However, it does the job in terms of getting you familiar with several major GTD-equivalent features in Pagico. We hope that this tiny tutorial could be helpful to you, and we’ll keep updating it as we move forward. Feel free to leave comments and questions.

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Channels is designed to provide you an extremely flexible and powerful way to share and synchronize data among your team.

Currently this feature is being heavily tested and you can not use it yet (the Create new channel button will be grayed out). But don’t worry, we’re planning to launch a free beta period as soon as it’s reliable enough, so you and your team can try it out and see how it fits!

The Channels beta program has already started, and you can sign up for free! A huge amount of information regarding to Channels is still being prepared.

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The change has been applied within the software (including the user manual), and we’ve also started the update process on our websites. So occasionally you might still be able to see a few left-overs here and there on our website for reference purposes, but all new articles will be using the new term.

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The Today view can be located in the Dashboard section, which is also the first screen you see once you’re into the database. It provides you two lists: Must Do and Might Do.

Re-Ordering Tasks

Nobody wants to complete tasks by alphabetic orders, so we make changing the order of tasks very easy. Simply hover your mouse onto a task item, and you’ll see the move handle icon. Simply drag and drop the handle to wherever you want to. It’s that simple.

Note: Re-Ordering tasks in the Today view does not affect the order of tasks in their actual lists.

Must Do vs Might Do

Tasks that are scheduled are automatically shown in the Must Do list. Tasks that are due very soon (tomorrow, or the day after) are listed in the Might Do list. If there’s not enough Might Do tasks, Pagico will get some of the Someday tasks (if any) in the Might Do list as a reminder.

Re-Scheduling Tasks

For those tasks that could wait, simply drag them over to the Might Do list. Once dragged into there, those tasks will be automatically postponed by one day (i.e. tomorrow), and they will become Must Do’s the next day. If there are tasks that are very important and you want to get them done today, just drag them over into the Must Do list. By doing so, those tasks will be scheduled for today automatically.

Add new tasks easily

If you need to create new tasks, you can do so quickly by using the plus (“+”) buttons under each list.

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Disclaimer: This method is not officially supported, therefore it is not guaranteed that this method will work under Ubuntu 9.04 / 9.10 and any future updates. Also this tutorial is intended for intermediate and advanced Ubuntu users as it involves some terminal work.

How To

1. Check that you have getlibs installed – it should be available via the Synaptic Package Manager.
2. Download the Pagico installer file as you need from here.
3. Open a terminal and navigate to the directory in which the installer file was saved.
4. Because this installer will be for a 32 bit architecture, we have to ‘force’ install. So type:
   sudo -i dpkg -i –force-architecture pagico……
5. Do NOT run Pagico from a menu or by invoking Gnome Do or such like yet. Instead run it from a terminal first in order to figure out what libraries it’s going to need.
6. Simply type ‘pagico’ (followed by “enter”) in the terminal.
7. You’ll get a series of error messages which will point you to the libraries that are missing. You’ll probably see something like: ‘error while loading shared libraries: libxxx..so.6′
8. This is where getlibs does its thing. Using the above as an example we’d type ’sudo -i getlibs -l libxxx.so.6′, and that should then take care of that library. For each missing library do the same using its name exactly as displayed in the error message.
9. Keep doing this until eventually Pagico should run from the terminal. When that happens you can then launch Pagico via the menu command, or however you like.
10. When you upgrade to a newer version of Pagico you’ll have to follow this procedure, but there are normally only two or three shared libraries to update.

Some external articles that you might find helpful:

• getlibs: Automatically solves dependencies for 32-bit programs on Ubuntu
• Getlibs — simple 32 bit compatibility on amd64

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This folder is there, instead of somewhere in your Application folder, is because we wanted to create a consistent environment for both Mac and Linux systems so that Linux savvy users can feel at home when they see the opt folder.

However, if you’re not comfortable with having an opt folder there, you can feel free to delete it if you don’t want to take advantage of the Task CLI plugin or the Pagico Helper. The rest functionalities of Pagico will not be affected.

Note

Starting from Pagico v4.0 r891, the Pagico Helper will still function even if the /opt folder is removed.

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Starting with Pagico v4.0, a Command Line Interface (CLI) component is developed to provide users alternative access to their Pagico data through the command line. This article shows you how to display your ToDo lists (tasks) on your desktop, with the help of a free 3rd party application called Serious Samurize. The final result will look like this…

About Serious Samurize

Serious Samurize is a free, 3rd party application that allows you to place console (CLI) output (and a lot more) onto your desktop with customizable styles.

Step 1: Make sure you have the latest version of Pagico v4 installed.

Only Pagico v4.0 r868 or later has the Tasks CLI plugin.

Step 2: Get and install Serious Samurize

Serious Samurize can be downloaded from its official website. Once installed, it may ask you to reboot your computer. And when you first launch the Serious Samurize, you may notice there’s nothing showing up on your desktop except for the SS icon in your task bar. This is normal, as you haven’t gotten any configuration files yet.

Step 3: Install the pre-made configuration file

In order to help you get started as soon as possible, we’ve made a configuration file for you. All you need to do, is to download the configuration file (Pagico.ini, 1.6k, right-click and download as a file) and install it by placing it at: C:\Program Files\Samurize\Config folder.

Step 4: Load the configuration file in Serious Samurize

You need to ask the Serious Samurize application to load the configuration file by right clicking on the Serious Samurize icon (located in far right side of your task bar), and selecting the menu item: Select Config File -> Pagico.ini.

If you don’t see the Pagico.ini item showing up in the Select Config File sub-menu, you may have placed the configuration file in the wrong place in Step 3.

The pre-made configuration file does the following things:

• Display tasks due on today, tomorrow, and this week in three separate lists
• Content is auto-updated every minute
• Font: Courier New in black

All done!

Once you get the configuration file loaded, you should be able to see your tasks (today, tomorrow and this week) showing up on your desktop. Hooray! Oh, and don’t forget that you can move it around by dragging it (dragging might not be too easy, as you’ll need to really click on the word to be able to move it).

Next step?
Make it look good with your wallpaper by setting up font style, color, shadow, … etc!
To customize the look and feel of the displayed tasks, simply right click on the SS icon in your task bar, and choose the “Edit Config File…” menu command. Then, you’ll be able to see the config editor, which is really powerful.
To start customizing, first you need to select the “Tasks” item under the Pagico group. Then in the right column, switch to the “Display” tab, where you’ll have plenty of stuff to play with.

For advanced users…

If you’re savvy enough, you might want to tweak the content that’s being displayed. For example, you can create a text group showing only tasks due in today, and a text group showing only tasks due in tomorrow, etc, and set up the text groups with different styles.

To do so, you’ll need to switch to the “Source” tab in the Config File Editor. Then, in the command line textbox, use the following syntax to get different results:

“C:\Program Files\Pagico\CodeX\plugins\tasks.windows.cmd” {options}

Possible options:

• today=1
  Tasks that are due on today
• tomorrow=1
  Tasks that are due on tomorrow
• thisweek=1
  Tasks that are due within the current week
• overdue=1
  Tasks that are overdue
• inbox=1
  Tasks that are stored in Inbox

You may use multiple options (separated by space) at one time.

For example, in the pre-made configuration file, the command is:

“C:\Program Files\Pagico\CodeX\plugins\tasks.windows.cmd” today=1 tomorrow=1 thisweek=1

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In many cases, you will want to expand a certain concept (task or person’s name, etc) into a topic by creating a same-name topic (or contact profile) and link to it. Thankfully, in Pagico v4, this action can be really easy. Take a look at this screencast.

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But replacing such an important module is not an easy job. Fortunately, with the totally rewritten libraries in Pagico v4, this task becomes much easier and manageable.

Benefits

To sum up, the benefits of the new SQLite3 data engine include:

• Much more reliable (industry-proven database compared to custom-built database)
• 2x faster (not in all aspects, but averagely twice as fast as before)
• Much easier when duplicating and backing up (a regular db contains 50 files, compared to tens of thousands of files before)
• Many more possible features for Pagico based on the better API and functionalities
• And many more.

Server-side Technologies

Server-side technologies are also employed in Pagico to ensure data integrity to the maximum level. For example, Pagico writes changes to the database in just a splash of time just when needed, instead of opening long term database connections which is commonly found in other desktop database programs and is vulnerable to system crashes.

Backup Is Still Important

Although Pagico has multiple measures built in to increase data reliability, we still recommend you to backup your databases regularly. Because we all know that the peace of mind about your data is more valuable than anything else in your computer experience.

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As a new addition to Pagico 4, the Command Line Interface (CLI) component provides users with various access to their data stored in Pagico databases via the command line (or, “Terminal” application on Mac OS X).

The CLI component of the Pagico 4 is designed as a plugin system. Various plugins covering different purposes have been developed or are being developed. Currently the following plugins are shipped with the Pagico 4 installation package:

• Inbox
• Tasks

The CLI component, on Macs and Linux systems, is accessible from /opt/pagico/plugins folder.

The CLI component is still under development. The plugins above are being updated frequently, and more of them are on the way.

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