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Todos in the CLI like what.

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I like this a lot. I'll second what somebody else asked for: (1) a file which could be synced in dropbox. Another feature I would like is the (2) ability to optionally tag todo items like on twitter #likeso and then be able to list them with this later on. Finally, and this is quite a personal request -- a lot of the things on my todo lists never get removed. I have to do them every single day. My solution to this has just been placing a little counter next to them and then increasing this when I've "completed them". It's a mind-hack. Do you think you could (3) add support for todo items which if they've been cleared appear in X days? (This is for stuff like: read a chapter of that book. Ticking things off makes me more likely to do it. But it's annoying to constantly have to re-add this to a todo list.)

Thanks a lot for the tool.

Seems like excessive dependencies for such a simple tool. Could probably build such a tool in SQLite and bash just as well.

Let's see it! I'd love to use a lean version in bash/sqlite. Now just put your modules where your mouth is :)

Well there is the todo.txt format, for which the reference implementation is a bash interface[2].

[1]: https://github.com/ginatrapani/todo.txt-cli/wiki/The-Todo.tx... [2]: https://github.com/ginatrapani/todo.txt-cli

Woah. That looks mature and robust. Thank you. I will say, however, that the visual icing on this project is nicer, but it looks like the other could be adapted for it.

I have my own very simple entry in this space: https://github.com/asb/sh-todo

It's a bit annoying that so few terminals implement the ANSI escape sequence for strikethrough (gnome-terminal does!) but I've been using it for almost a year now. I have my todo and todone files synced via Dropbox and todone-view allows me to easily see the tasks I knocked off the list recently. I also quite like not immediately moving items from the todo list to the archive after they're done. I think it's nice to be able to cross a bunch of items from your list, and see them cross out next time you type `todo`. Then when they're just a distracting to `todone-archive` and they only appear in your todone file.

sh-todo will run on any POSIX compliant shell.

Nowadays I mostly use Google Calendar since it's easy to sync with my phone, but before I used taskwarrior[1] which has some very nice features.

This seems easier if you just want simply TODOing, though.

[1]: http://taskwarrior.org/projects/show/taskwarrior

For those interested in this sort of thing, Taskwarrior 2.0 server (taskd) will allow arbitrary front ends, including the standard CLI as well as web interfaces, app interfaces, etc. I'm excited for that project to mature. (2.0 CLI client is in active beta, though I believe taskd is still alpha)

Any plans for multiple lists and/or remote syncing (or just a file that could be dropboxed/version tracked)? With those two features I'm ready to say goodbye to Wunderlist, which is nice but absolute shit for keyboard navigation.

Thanks. Those are pretty cool ideas. I'll open issues for them in github.

You might like a similar tool I made: http://stevelosh.com/projects/t/

Tasks are kept in a single text file, sorted by MD5 hash so version controlled merges tend to work better.

Great do not pay attention for asking some people to use it for web page. CLI rules

Yep, cli rules, but will be great if i can use it on web page :)

A similar tool in ruby: https://github.com/minhajuddin/taskr . It allows syncing of tasks through Dropbox.

A similar tool is http://todotxt.com/ - it supports projects and priorities, and is cross-platform as well.

Here is something similar in ruby https://github.com/HashNuke/j

The default behaviour for todo should be to print the todo list and not help.

No option to clear only completed items?

What's that color scheme?

No, it's CLI tool only.

Can I use it on web page? Not for cli?

How do you want to use it on web page? Explain pls

Perhaps s/he means "given that it's written in Javascript, can I run it in a browser?"

I'll venture that the short answer is "no" because all the interfaces are for the CLI. But it looks like most of the application logic (in libs/commands.js) is separated from the interface stuff (in cli.js) so it could be repurposed if someone wanted to put the work in. Probably not worth it tho cuz it would be so different from the node app re: dependency management, interface, storage etc.

If you want a web to-do list, there are a million. Check here: https://github.com/addyosmani/todomvc for about 10. You can also check out this super light weight html5 agile micro buzzword buzzword buzzword browser todo-list app here: http://www.webdevout.net/test?0n&raw ;) (tip o' the hat to https://github.com/aphelionz for this one, I bit the idea from him).

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