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Most useful script I've ever written, and legitimately how I keep track of everything important in my life: #! /bin/bash function todo { if [ $# -eq 0

Most useful script I've ever written, and legitimately how I keep track of everything important in my life: #! /bin/bash function todo { if [ $# -eq 0 ] then vim ~/Dropbox/todo/todo_list.txt else vim "$HOME/Dropbox/todo/todo_list_$1.txt" fi } Sourcing this in my shell means I just have to type... todo To automatically get into my default todo list which is synced to dropbox (and thus accessible everywhere on mobile as well). While, whenever I have a new project/etc come up, I can just todo new_project_name And get a new, nice clean file, with the same backups and multi-device accessibility.

inconceivable 4y ago
here's my pull request $ cat << EOF > ~/.bash_profile > alias lstd='ls ~/Dropbox/todo' > EOF
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- throwaway019254 4y ago
  And maybe some autocompletion if using zsh? #compdef todo _todo() { _files -W $HOME/Dropbox/todo/ } _todo "$@"
EFreethought 4y ago
I use Org mode in Emacs, so I have a follow up: Do you have a format in your text files to track when things are done, like a checklist? In Org, you can give things states like "TODO", "INPROGRESS", "DONE", "CANCELLED", add checkboxes (like "[ ]" and "[x]"), have sub-tasks/lists, etc. I have really gotten into Org, and I have found there are a few other checklist formats/programs in plain text. Just wondering how you do it.
EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y ago
I just have a Dropbox/todo.txt file opened permanently in Notepad++, no scripts and no need to type anything.
gglitch 4y ago
Similar. I've ended up at these functions in .bashrc: # Append a timestamped entry to the journal log() { printf "$(date +%Y-%m-%d--%H:%M) %s\n" "$*" >> $journal } # Query the journal lquery() { grep -ni $1 $journal } # Show all journal entries from today ltoday() { clear grep -n $(date +%Y-%m-%d) $journal } # On a line identified by line number, switch @todo to @done ldo() { sed -i "$1 s/@todo/@done/" $journal sed -i "$1 s/$/ \[COMPLETED $(date +%Y-%m-%d--%H:%M)\]/" $journal } Nice things about this system: there's only one file; I'm only ever looking at the data I want to see; and there are no applications running or files open (except my terminal, I guess).

inconceivable 4y ago

here's my pull request $ cat << EOF > ~/.bash_profile > alias lstd='ls ~/Dropbox/todo' > EOF

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throwaway019254 4y ago
And maybe some autocompletion if using zsh? #compdef todo _todo() { _files -W $HOME/Dropbox/todo/ } _todo "$@"

EFreethought 4y ago

I use Org mode in Emacs, so I have a follow up: Do you have a format in your text files to track when things are done, like a checklist? In Org, you can give things states like "TODO", "INPROGRESS", "DONE", "CANCELLED", add checkboxes (like "[ ]" and "[x]"), have sub-tasks/lists, etc. I have really gotten into Org, and I have found there are a few other checklist formats/programs in plain text. Just wondering how you do it.

EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y ago

I just have a Dropbox/todo.txt file opened permanently in Notepad++, no scripts and no need to type anything.

gglitch 4y ago

Similar. I've ended up at these functions in .bashrc: # Append a timestamped entry to the journal log() { printf "$(date +%Y-%m-%d--%H:%M) %s\n" "$*" >> $journal } # Query the journal lquery() { grep -ni $1 $journal } # Show all journal entries from today ltoday() { clear grep -n $(date +%Y-%m-%d) $journal } # On a line identified by line number, switch @todo to @done ldo() { sed -i "$1 s/@todo/@done/" $journal sed -i "$1 s/$/ \[COMPLETED $(date +%Y-%m-%d--%H:%M)\]/" $journal } Nice things about this system: there's only one file; I'm only ever looking at the data I want to see; and there are no applications running or files open (except my terminal, I guess).