Managing to-do lists on the command line with Taskwarrior

Posted Apr 18, 2024 15:25 UTC (Thu) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: Managing to-do lists on the command line with Taskwarrior by karim
Parent article: Managing to-do lists on the command line with Taskwarrior

The whole "simple text format" movements around various things is a breath of fresh air. E.g. the "ledger" accounting tool has turned into a whole ecosystem of accountancy tools, based on a human editable text format. Nice to see same around TODO/task stuff.

Managing to-do lists on the command line with Taskwarrior

Posted Apr 18, 2024 15:36 UTC (Thu) by karim (subscriber, #114) [Link] (1 responses)

Totally agree.

Databases are all great. But being able to just open the file, change the line, save and go is gold. Especially on the scale of 1.

Managing to-do lists on the command line with Taskwarrior

Posted Apr 30, 2024 0:52 UTC (Tue) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

I wasn't around in the COBOL days, but it seems like there was an era where simple fixed field files and data access tools that were built into the OS were common that more sophisticated databases replaced them with complex software services, and maybe tools like todo.txt and ledger are really going back to a in computing to a systems design than just text files.