Been a long term practitioner of GTD, I adopted todo.txt about 7-8 years ago and never looked for tools after that! I created something similar for the tickler file as well. Would love to get some feedback.
Taskw supports various named dates like soq/eocq, som/eom (start/end of [current] quarter, start/end of month), tomorrow, later [3]
Taskw recurring tasks (recur:) use the duration syntax: weekly/wk/w, monthly/mo, quarterly/qtr, yearly/yr, …
[4]
Pandas has a "date offset" "frequency string" microsyntax that supports business days, quarters, and years; e.g. BQuarterEnd, BQuarterBegin [5]
IDK how usable by other tools these date string parsers are.
W/ just a text editor, having `todo.txt`, `daily.todo.txt`, and `weekly.todo.txt` (and `cleanhome.todo.txt` and `hygiene.todo.txt` with "## heading" tasks that get lost @where +sorting) works okay.
I have physical 43 folders, too: A 12 month and a 31 day expanding file. [6]
Thanks for a detailed reply. Taskwarrior looks interesting will explore more. From what I see it seems to be pushing the limit of todo.txt file format by having all the different types of date formats. Does that mean that typical clients such as simpletask (Android) won't work with these todo.txt files? I have made sure I never touch the todo.txt file so all existing tools work fine while I track everything in tickler.txt
IDK how well simpletask handles the date formats that TaskWarrior supports. I just found simpletask-taskwarrior [1] which appears to use nl.mpcjanssen.simpletask.sort.DateComparator [2] (which calls hirondelle.date4j.DateTime.compareTo [3] ) for the date fields of TaskWarrior tasks.
Obviously, neither ISO8601 sort nor ASCII sort can correctly sort "tomorrow" or "weekly" with "2101-10-31". TaskWarrior recurring tasks have a parent template that presumably zero todo.txt tools can at all handle. Not even Markor.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 23.9 ms ] threadTaskw supports various task dates – { due: scheduled: wait: until: recur: } [2]
Taskw supports various named dates like soq/eocq, som/eom (start/end of [current] quarter, start/end of month), tomorrow, later [3]
Taskw recurring tasks (recur:) use the duration syntax: weekly/wk/w, monthly/mo, quarterly/qtr, yearly/yr, … [4]
Pandas has a "date offset" "frequency string" microsyntax that supports business days, quarters, and years; e.g. BQuarterEnd, BQuarterBegin [5]
IDK how usable by other tools these date string parsers are.
W/ just a text editor, having `todo.txt`, `daily.todo.txt`, and `weekly.todo.txt` (and `cleanhome.todo.txt` and `hygiene.todo.txt` with "## heading" tasks that get lost @where +sorting) works okay.
I have physical 43 folders, too: A 12 month and a 31 day expanding file. [6]
[1] http://todotxt.org/
[2] https://taskwarrior.org/docs/using_dates.html
[3] https://taskwarrior.org/docs/named_dates.html
[4] https://taskwarrior.org/docs/durations.html
[5] https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/user_guide/time...
[6] http://www.43folders.com/
Obviously, neither ISO8601 sort nor ASCII sort can correctly sort "tomorrow" or "weekly" with "2101-10-31". TaskWarrior recurring tasks have a parent template that presumably zero todo.txt tools can at all handle. Not even Markor.
[1] https://github.com/mpcjanssen/simpletask-taskwarrior/blob/ma...
[2] https://github.com/mpcjanssen/simpletask-taskwarrior/blob/ma...
[3] https://github.com/IanDarwin/date4j/blob/master/src/main/jav...
Ctrl-F only finds one mention of "todo.txt" in https://taskwarrior.org/tools/