todo.sh

todo.sh is a very handy task manager. It is written in shell script and stores it's data in plain text files. This has many advantages, too many to go into here. See http://todotxt.com/ for more information. This is a superbly useful script. I have made extensive modifications to the original script. The main change involved adding a unique ID to each todo patterned after that used by hiveminder.com. This was done to allow for an activity history and for each todo to have comments. The former because I forget things and have cats, the latter because I tend to have long running tasks. Because the changes require alterations to existing todo.txt, done.txt and .todo files I have included a script to ease migration See the readme file for more information and the changes file for a fairly detailed list of my changes.

If you find any problems or have any suggestions please feel free to email me at LoranceStinson+todo AT gmail DOT com.

Thanks to Lewis Overton for the man pages. I never write them myself so you owe their existence to his sending them to me.

It is available as a Gziped tar file and a PKZip file.
Last updated 2007-05-21. Version: L1.2

Changes:

• 2007-05-21:
  
  • Removed the remdup command. It is no longer functional.
  • Changed the help display. The option -h displays help for the command line options. The action help displays the action help.
  • Cleaned up messages, help and errors.
  • The edit action no long leaved blanks at the end of the line.
  • Switched to Perl POD for man pages. The man pages are now generated from the POD source files.
• 2007-05-14:
  Added editc command to edit the comment file on a TODO..

The version I based my changes on is available as a PKZip file.

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