The best todo list app for any developer

#1

Post by PostingWithPSP » Sat, Feb 01, 2014, 4:55 PM UTC

The best todo list app for any developer
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Re: The best todo list app for any developer

#2

Post by andreypopp » Sat, Feb 01, 2014, 5:17 PM UTC

What if your todolist is too large? Store it somewhere else (in you homedir, no need for a sudo) and add

  head -n 10 ~/todo.md

to your .bashrc/.zshrc to show 10 most prioritised tasks on each session startup.

Re: The best todo list app for any developer

#3

Post by vezzy-fnord » Sat, Feb 01, 2014, 5:24 PM UTC

Slackware pipes fortune to your /etc/motd by default. Always amusing, especially when it told me to run `nohup rm -fr /&`. I like to think someone out there followed that advice.

Alternatively, you can make a list and paste a `cat /path/to/list` in your shell rc.

Re: The best todo list app for any developer

#4

Post by Touche » Sat, Feb 01, 2014, 5:30 PM UTC

andreypopp wrote: post #2

What if your todolist is too large? Store it somewhere else (in you homedir, no need for a sudo) and add head -n 10 ~/todo.md to your .bashrc/.zshrc to show 10 most prioritised tasks on each session startup.

Nice, store todo.md in a cloud drive and you'll have it show up on all of your computers.

Re: The best todo list app for any developer

#5

Post by jph » Sat, Feb 01, 2014, 5:36 PM UTC

Even better for developers: Todo.txt http://todotxt.com/

Free, open, plain text, with lots of optional tools for the command line and also mobile.

And for more power, emacs org mode is amazing.

Re: The best todo list app for any developer

#6

Post by seivan » Sat, Feb 01, 2014, 5:38 PM UTC

Ooooh, OK this was genius. Sold.

I hope this helps though.

Re: The best todo list app for any developer

#7

Post by jmnicolas » Sat, Feb 01, 2014, 6:03 PM UTC

Touche wrote: post #4

andreypopp wrote: post #2

What if your todolist is too large? Store it somewhere else (in you homedir, no need for a sudo) and add head -n 10 ~/todo.md to your .bashrc/.zshrc to show 10 most prioritised tasks on each session startup.

Nice, store todo.md in a cloud drive and you'll have it show up on all of your computers.

So you're storing a file on a public server that is beyond your control and you make your shell read it every time you launch it ?

What could possibly go wrong ?! ;-)

Re: The best todo list app for any developer

#8

Post by simlay » Sat, Feb 01, 2014, 6:08 PM UTC

andreypopp wrote: post #2

What if your todolist is too large? Store it somewhere else (in you homedir, no need for a sudo) and add head -n 10 ~/todo.md to your .bashrc/.zshrc to show 10 most prioritised tasks on each session startup.

This may break scp when copying from a remote host which has this in the .bashrc.

Re: The best todo list app for any developer

#9

Post by inanov » Sat, Feb 01, 2014, 6:14 PM UTC

I loved this one. I also found Carl Sednaoui's method for using github gists as task lists (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7000953) very useful.

Re: The best todo list app for any developer

#10

Post by moron4hire » Sat, Feb 01, 2014, 6:17 PM UTC

Paper. just a single piece of 8.5x11 paper. Anything more complex means I'm trying to do more work than I can handle.