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Todo.txt is an interesting alternative

Todo.txt is an interesting alternative

Posted May 5, 2011 12:05 UTC (Thu) by mdorman (subscriber, #6354)
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor gets organized with Astrid

The Todo.txt crew (http://todotxt.com/) has sprouted an Android app (https://github.com/ginatrapani/todo.txt-touch) to augment the existing command-line interface. They expect synchronization to be done through Dropbox, which I understand probably skeeves some people out these days, but you can't beat something that's text-file based for portability and openness.


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Todo.txt is an interesting alternative

Posted May 5, 2011 14:44 UTC (Thu) by cdmiller (subscriber, #2813) [Link]

Second todo.sh. I get a daily email of high priority todo items from todo.sh via cron and the sendemail perl script. The todo list is appended to agenda output from gcalcli. Text rules! Example:

Thu May 05
10:30am SysAdmin Meeting
12:00pm L
2:00pm Template Discussion

36 (A) document new rack power in racktables +power
20 (A) modify vmbuilder for lucid to use puppet +kvm
37 (A) server config and quote for George +smt

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