I've been using my own system which is mainly just $EDITOR and a script that takes out completed tasks every day by grepping out lines that begin with "X "
The problem is that it would be nice to just see a couple most important tasks at a time, instead of having a blood-chilling text file FULL of todo items in your face all day 😅
@RL_Dane Last december, I wrote a bunch of additional scripts around todo.txt to show tasks in fzf or rofi (amongst other things), it might come in handy in you want to filter and sort the tasks: https://proycon.anaproy.nl/posts/todo/
Loving the timetracker module. I was using it and was confused why I didn't see any mention of it in the todo.sh source, lol. Then I tracked it to my ~/.config/todo/actions/ directory and remembered our conversation. XD
Looking forward to exploring more of your excellent todo.sh plugins! :D
Edit: OCD fixing the directory name because OCD ;)
@RL_Dane Thanks! I'm glad you find it useful :) I've been actively using the timetracker ever since I wrote it to report all my work hours for my employer, and it works quite well.
@RL_Dane Yes, human multitasking is an illusion anyways, best track one thing at a time. You can still track a task that references multiple projects or contexts anyway. I use the timetracker mostly via the todo.txt-more rofi menu (set to a keybinding in my wm), and then I select one of the todo items to work on. My status bar (waybar) shows which tasks I'm (supposed to be) doing and for how long I've been at it.
Oh, that's neat. I might try something like that on my i3wm machine.
On my KDE work machine, I use the yakuake pop-down terminal. My .bashrc2 runs todo.sh |head -3 so I can always be aware of the high-priority stuff, and I have this alias:
tstat is aliased to `clear; t; echo; tt; echo #'
(t and tt are functions which run todo.sh and 'todo.sh timetrack' with some extra sugar so that I can run them with no parameters to get 'todo.sh ls' and 'todo.sh timetrack log' ;)
@RL_Dane I usually try to be as POSIX compliant as possible. Ideally I'd have written everything in POSIX shell but there were some reasons (which I forgot) to depend on actual bash instead.
I could probably live without [[ ]], but living without $( ) would send me to the funny farm XD
I'm not going back to only having . :P
Bash's POSIX mode is actually way too generous. dash is the most posix-strict shel commonly available in linux. Aaaand I can't find my way out of a wet paper bag in dash XD
@proycon
Ah, right you are! I hadn't tested that in a while, I guess.
It also seems to have $(( )) arithmetic expansion. I could have sworn that it didn't.
If I could put in a feature request:
A "todo.sh timetracker edit" feature would be grand. I find myself using "todo.sh edit" a lot.
I guess I could add my own in my little tt front-end function, but I thought I'd suggest it to you first ;)
@RL_Dane Are you on the latest git version still? I did implement some performance improvements to timetrack log a a few weeks back, it was indeed implemented rather inefficiently.
Hi Maarten, sorry I haven't had time to look through your code yet. I just wanted to share some of the things I've implemented through a front-end bash function to see if any are interesting to you:
@RL_Dane I love the forced organization of #taskwarrior when you use a GTD approach
I recommend keeping it simple (don't use projects and contexts right away) and really get into the process of setting wait: and depends: on tasks until the only tasks that show up when you run 'task' are things you can work on right away
(When I see something new or non-actionable on the list, I break it down into actions by annotating and creating new pre-tasks and sub-tasks by using the depends: feature)
@RL_Dane One vote for Taskwarrior. But I must admit that I have no experience with Todo.TXT.
TW has the default report, which shows you a screen full of your most urgent tasks. Urgency is highly configurable. E.g. different tags can have different urg. It also has due date handling - the closer to the date, the higher the task's urg.
It can even accumulate urgency along a task dep dependency chain.
Plus: It has it's own sync server to work on several machines.
Oh, I'm under no illusion that a project that hasn't been updated in a few years is useless. I honestly think the current pace of development is kinda reckless and untenable. (I'm not a dev, tho).
The thing I like about Todo.txt is how drop-dead simple it is. It's something between my current worklog script and timewarrior.
But I do like the fact that TimeWarrior still uses mostly plain text.
Is there any way to move ~/.task and ~/.taskrc to ~/.config/task/?
@RL_Dane
That said I do use timewarrior, which is developed by the same people. I use todoman because it can support a vdirsyncer backend, meaning that I can sync it with my radicale instance to other devices.
Wow, that's super complex. So your commandline task list syncs with your phone via some version of WebDAV?
I'd probably just use syncthing, like everything else.
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