todo.txt-note

Description

Add-on to add note into todo.txt-cli tasks.

NOTE: Disclaimer: This tool is built to scratch my own itch: having details for a task. The tool was built in 2 hours in a hack-things-together manner so expect it to be (a little) buggy.

The todo.txt format does not specify anywhere to store more information related to a task.

This add-on introduces note concept in to the task by making use of Additional File Format Definition.

Concept

todo.txt-note add a key:value tag into your task, namely note:xxxx in which xxxx is a generated id to the file containing the whole description.

For example:

$ todo.sh ls
01 (A) Finish the whole @awesome-project on time. note:abcd938

NOTE: as of 0.1.0, the id is the first 8 characters of SHA-256 of random sequence of bits.

The description files are stored at $TODO_DIR/notes/*.txt

Known Limitations

• When a task is marked as done by todo.sh do $x, the note file associating with $x is NOT deleted.

Roadmap

This TODO is using todo.txt format, of course.

(A) Delete orphan note files.
(B) Show the task's original content and id on the top when `show` +improvement.
(C) Allow to use an external editor when `add` the description as an +improvement.

Installation

You need python3 in your PATH.

Simply clone this repository into your $TODO_ACTION_DIR (defined in your ~/.todo.fg)

$ mkdir -p ~/.todo.actions.d/note
$ git clone https://github.com/Genzer/todo-note.git ~/.todo.actions.d/note
$ chmod u+x ~/.todo.actions.d/note/note

Usage

todo.txt-note supports 3 primary functions: add, show and edit (or use their aliases a, s and e respectively)

Add a Description to a Task

Note: adding a new note into a task which already has a note will fail with an error and no changes.

# Simply a single text
$ todo.sh note add 1 -n "The project is defined to be TOP secret"

# Use heredoc
# Please note the second argument, the content of description, MUST be - so that the add-on knows to read from stdin
$ todo.sh note add 1 -n - <<__DOC__
# Description

The project is defined to be TOP secret
__DOC__

# Or a file.
# Please note the `-` is being used to tell `todo.txt-note` to read the content
# from the stdin.
$ cat some_prepared_text.md | todo.sh note add 1 -n -


# By omitting the note's content argument, `todo.txt-note` will use
# `TODO_NOTE_EDITOR` for inputing the content.
$ todo.sh note add 1
# vim is opened

Show the Note

$ todo.sh note show 1
The project is defined to be TOP secret

Edit the Note Using an External Editor

You can specify your preferred editor either through an environment variable EDITOR or TODO_NOTE_EDITOR.

NOTE: The default editor is vi. The order of lookup is to search for EDITOR then TODO_NOTE_EDITOR.

For example:

# Your ~/.todo.cfg

# Use Visual Studio Code
export TODO_NOTE_EDITOR=/usr/local/bin/code

$ todo.sh note edit 1
# Use Code to open the file ~/.todo/notes/abcd012.txt

Development

Please have a look at Creating Add-ons: Examples.

You need Python 3.6 or later. There is no external dependencies.

Other Useful todo.txt Addons

• Note add-on for todotxt: I was not aware of this addon at the time I made my own version. This addon is very well written and even supports some limits that mine has.

• MIT - Most Important Tasks: A super useful addon to focus on a handful of todos for a day. I use it everyday.