I'm not really a fan of screencasts but in this case I thought it gave a nice idea of what the tool feels like to use. That's pretty important with something like that, but a little hard to convey through just a transcript.
seems that most of the functionality here can be replicated with basic shell commands:
t add "blah" == echo "blah" >> Todo.txt
t ls @search == grep @search Todo.txt
so all this does is ... color-code task priorities - meh
That's what shell scripts do in general, they automate things you could have done yourself with a bit more typing. With a todo list I feel it is absolutely vital that there is as little friction as possible. You don't want the process of recording and tracking what you have to do to distract you from actually doing it!
Plus how long would it take you to accidentally type "echo blah > todo.txt" instead of "echo blah >> todo.txt". I'm thinking a few days for me :)
This is all academic of course, everyone should be using org-mode for todo lists. What do you mean you don't have Emacs running all the time?? ;)
Agree with the generalization. But from the screencast, there is no indication this does anything other than alias basic shell commands. I'd recommend the author screencast something that the average shell user won't look at and wonder why even bother. At least the source code reveals something a little more useful.
I've been using todo.sh for a couple years now, and this is a feature, not a bug. Since everything is in line-oriented text files, I can just use standard shell commands (or a text editor!) when it's more convenient. But the script makes it slightly easier and faster to do very common or complex operations.
This does seem aimed more at heavy shell-users. I've heard of people finding little at-hand shell windows useful, but my workflow is all about the editor.
(Incidentally, I'd just recently started learning emacs and hadn't heard of org-mode before your comment. Thanks - seems useful so far.)
I use etherpad for my to do lists. I used to use "Things.app" on my mac but I found that had too many features I just didn't use, and I couldn't access it online/elsewhere.
Raise your hand if you've written you own version of this at least once.
This looks quite slick (though it's sort of ironic that a non-GUI, text-based tool does not have a simple text-based description; I skipped most of the video).
I wrote my own CLI note taker (aliased to '@'), have a Ruby app that interacts with Todoist.com via the CLI; have CLI tools for setting reminders to ping me via Twitter; am starting on one to manage issues on GitHub repos via the CLI.
They're all fairly simple and designed around the principle of WFJ: Works for James. And I've always believed that I'm not alone in hacking out little helper tools like this.
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so all this does is ... color-code task priorities - meh
A relational database system:
http://www.strozzi.it/cgi-bin/CSA/tw7/I/en_US/NoSQL/Home%20P...
A compiler and assembler in shell:
http://lwn.net/2002/0110/a/osimplay.php3
An implementation of MapReduce:
http://github.com/erikfrey/bashreduce/tree/master
A complete BBS:
ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume13/sbbs/
Plus how long would it take you to accidentally type "echo blah > todo.txt" instead of "echo blah >> todo.txt". I'm thinking a few days for me :)
This is all academic of course, everyone should be using org-mode for todo lists. What do you mean you don't have Emacs running all the time?? ;)
it's simple: if you have any shell aliases, you are a hypocrite if you complain about this being just that.
(Incidentally, I'd just recently started learning emacs and hadn't heard of org-mode before your comment. Thanks - seems useful so far.)
Here's a 30-second intro: http://taskwarrior.org/wiki/taskwarrior/30-second_Tutorial
And a more comprehensive display of abilities: http://taskwarrior.org/wiki/taskwarrior/Simple
And combined with GeekTool, I've got a list on my desktop at all times. http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/
This looks quite slick (though it's sort of ironic that a non-GUI, text-based tool does not have a simple text-based description; I skipped most of the video).
I wrote my own CLI note taker (aliased to '@'), have a Ruby app that interacts with Todoist.com via the CLI; have CLI tools for setting reminders to ping me via Twitter; am starting on one to manage issues on GitHub repos via the CLI.
They're all fairly simple and designed around the principle of WFJ: Works for James. And I've always believed that I'm not alone in hacking out little helper tools like this.