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todorb

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command-line program that manages a todo list text file, incl subtasks, status, priorities etc
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 Dependencies

Development

>= 1.0.5

Runtime

>= 1.0.5
 Project Readme

todo.rb

Command-line todo manager

This is a port of my todoapp written in shell. That todo app is similar to the famous one by Gina Trapani, except that it added various features including sub-tasks, and notes.

I may not make this application as feature-rich as the shell version, however I needed to do this so I stop writing command-line programs using shell (portability issues across BSD and GNU versions of all commands). The shell version used sed extensively.

The fun things about this app, is that I am having to write ruby code that will give me sed's functionality (subset of course). Some of the stuff is present in sed.rb and is heavily being rewritten and improved as I go along.

The TODO file output is TODO2.txt and is a plain text file. A TAB separates the task number from the Task. I use task numbers, since I may refer to tasks elsewhere. Gina's app never saved a task Id but kept showing them.

After this, I will port over my bug tracker, bugzy.txt, which uses a TAB delimited file. It's a cool app to use for bug tracking - you should try it out. I will possibly use sqlite instead of screwing around with a delimited file.

Features

  1. multiple todo lists (per directory)
  2. subtasks (recursive delete or status update)
  3. priorities - (A) (B)
  4. status - [ ], [x], [@] etc
  5. tag - @WORK
  6. project - +myproj
  7. component - @comp1
  8. notes attached to task
  9. delete tasks
  10. archive completed tasks
  11. colored or plain output
  12. show or hide completed tasks (default: hide)
  13. Search, filter, sort tasks by priority (default) or task id.
  14. Renumber the file

Sample Output

   3 [ ] Add a close for status close (2010-06-14) 
     3.1 [ ] hello there new a u 3 (2010-06-15) 
         3.1.1 [ ] hello there new a u 3 (2010-06-15) 
         3.1.2 [ ] hello there new a u 3 (2010-06-15) 
         3.1.3 [ ] hello there new a u 3 (2010-06-15) 
     3.2 [ ] hello there new a u 3.2 (2010-06-15) 
         3.2.1 [ ] hello there new a u 3.2.1 (2010-06-15) 
             3.2.1.1 [ ] hello there new a u 3.2.1.1 
                    * a note for frank (2010-06-15) 
   5 [ ] list: if dir given then show full path of TODO2.txt at end (2010-06-14) 
     5.2 [ ] start rubyforge project for todorb (2010-06-14) 
   6 [@] allow for ENV VARS such as verbose, plain, force (2010-06-15) 
     6.1 [@] what if no serial_number file? (2010-06-14) 
   7 [ ] list: search terms with - + and = @RUBY (2010-06-15) 
   8 [ ] testing out add 1 @MYTAG @RUBY (2010-06-19) 
   9 [ ] testing out another one @RUBY 
          * a note for chris 
          * a note for steve (2010-06-19) 
  11 [x] (A) move common app code to common/cmdapp 
         * refactor it also, so not so reliant on variables (2010-06-20) 
  16 [ ] (A) add aliases to subcommand (2010-06-21) 
 
 17 of 17 rows displayed from TODO2.txt 

File format

  1. The file format is almost identical to the output except that there is a TAB after the task number.
  2. Notes are saved on same line as task, but displayed on another line with asterisk prefix.

RDOC

http://todorb.rubyforge.org/doc/

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2010 Rahul Kumar. See LICENSE for details.