todotxt/todo.txt-cli

Ali Karbassi

@karbassi

@kaushiknfs it's all flexible that way. You could do @p/adam or @_adam or @-adam

@kaushiknfs thanks

I use the @-personpattern, personally because then I do do todo.sh ls @- to find all the tasks that involve people

Kaushik

@kaushiknfs

@karbassi thats exactly what am doing now @&adam , like me and adam, would have been simpler with &adam, but this is just my thought, i'm quite sure people behind todo.txt and its tools would have definitely given this a thought over last 11 years.

Ali Karbassi

@karbassi

@kaushiknfs I think the thought is, if you introduce a new "keyword", like &, it should be different than the other available ones.

Kaushik

@kaushiknfs

all contexts arent equal, why should their prefix be?

Bram Schoenmakers

@bram85

I see some interesting test cases scrolling by here, curious how clients (including mine) handles these special character contexts...

Kaushik

@kaushiknfs

it would be great if the client treats prefixes + - @ # & $ , lets say a limited restricted set - uniformly as contexts and leave it to the imagination of the user to let him build context types / classes. or simply stick with + @.

Mark Janssen

@mpcjanssen

@bram85 got the gitter message. I have some ideas about the todo.txt format.

More freedom in choosing projects and contexts is one.

Some way of signifying task identity is another

I think contexts and projects should be whitespace terminated only (and maybe , and . : and ; )

A task identity is essential for any reliable syncing solution.

Bram Schoenmakers

@bram85

Identities would be a useful addition, in topydo it would've been useful in many occasions. Right now topydo maintains an id tag for those items that require an ID

Mark Janssen

@mpcjanssen

I have a change on simpletask that add a uuid for any task not having one

It looks ugly in text though

Rene Vergara

@ravl1084

hi, I just downloaded the latest master for todo.txt-cli and the coloring of projects and contexts is not working right. some lines are colored, some are not

Rene Vergara

@ravl1084

Found the problem, I had a ^M character at the end of some lines in my file. I think they were added by Simpletask on my phone.

Mark Janssen

@mpcjanssen

@ravl1084 simpletask should always leave the todo file with consistent line endings.

Rene Vergara

@ravl1084

@mpcjanssen Simpletask had the "use Windows-friendly line breaks" setting on by default, I cleaned up my file and turned that off and the issue was resolved

Mark Janssen

@mpcjanssen

Dropbox turned of V1 API today.

Ali Karbassi

@karbassi

@mpcjanssen what does that mean for your app?

Mark Janssen

@mpcjanssen

@karbassi I updated it to support API v2

(reluctantly)

Mark Janssen

@mpcjanssen

@karbassi the migration was not trivial, but all the dropbox v2 related handling in Simpletask is in the file: https://github.com/mpcjanssen/simpletask-android/blob/master/app/src/dropbox/java/nl/mpcjanssen/simpletask/remote/FileStore.kt

Ali Karbassi

@karbassi

@mpcjanssen would you be willing to help upgrade the todo.txt-android project's from v1 to v2? https://github.com/todotxt/todo.txt-android/tree/master/src/com/todotxt/todotxttouch/remote

Mark Janssen

@mpcjanssen

@karbassi I would, but besides updating simpletask I really don't have time to do this.

Ali Karbassi

@karbassi

@mpcjanssen I fully understand!

Mark Janssen

@mpcjanssen

And I don't remember how wel localized the dropbox code is in todotxt

It should not be hard

Authentication is a bit tricky

Ali Karbassi

@karbassi

I have no android experience, tbh

Know any android devs who might want to help out? Specially since it's hacktoberfest right now

Mark Janssen

@mpcjanssen

I think if PRs start to be merged again there are plenty of people who can do it, but who now hesitate because the project seems stale

Only problem is that merging PRs will still result in a non-functioning app at the moment.

Ali Karbassi

@karbassi

@mpcjanssen all valid concerns. I agree that there needs to be a champion for the android project.

@ginatrapani Could you tweet out that we're looking for 1 or 2 maintainers for the Android project?

Joshua Pereyda

@jtpereyda

anyone familiar with this error?

> todo.sh add "test item"
Fatal Error:  is not a directory

Pabblo Fillini

@ilzichio

Hi. Is it possible to not show summary in the end then I run todo.sh ls?
I mean this:

--
TODO: 14 of 14 tasks shown

Frans Jaspers

@Fransz

@ilzichio try:

todo.sh ls | head -n-2

PaulMansfieldVibepay

@PaulMansfieldVibepay

@ilzichio add TODOTXT_VERBOSE=0 to your todo.cfg file

coteyr

@coteyr

Any way to colorize tags?

Dmitry Frank

@dimonomid

Hi. First of all, thanks a lot for your work on that awesome tool, it makes my life better. The only feature I desperately miss right now is to be able to add and prioritize an item as a single (and preferably simple) command. Ideally I want to have commands like aa (add and prioritize as A), ab (add and prioritize as B), ac, etc. Is that possible?

so when I want to add an A item, it would be t aa Do this and that

PaulMansfieldVibepay

@PaulMansfieldVibepay

@dimonomid Sounds like you need to start looking at addons have a look here https://github.com/todotxt/todo.txt-cli/wiki/Todo.sh-Add-on-Directory#add-and-do--add-and-pri-in-one-step for Ginas adda to add with priority (A). Also sounds like you are being tripped up by bash and (A), just quote the item including the priority t add "(A) Do this and that"

PaulMansfieldVibepay

@PaulMansfieldVibepay

@coteyr I use a version of the final filter documented on the mailing list https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/todotxt/conversations/messages/5101

Ingo Karkat

@inkarkat

@dimonomid My addpri action takes the priority as the first argument; you could build your own aa, ab, ... actions on it: https://github.com/inkarkat/todo.txt-cli-ex/blob/master/actions/addpri

Dmitry Frank

@dimonomid

Thanks guys!

asteres

@asteres

Is there a newer iteration of todotxt? A lot of projects don't seem to have updates since ~2017. I know Postlight said they'd work on mobile apps and that fell through.

Cameron

@cameronbunce

@jtpereyda I'm experiencing the same thing

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