Ooooh, OK this was genius. Sold. I hope this helps though.
The comments are much more useful and valid.
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Re: The best todo list app for any developer
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 ?! ;-)
head just prints the contents of the file, it doesn't execute anything.
Re: The best todo list app for any developer
#13Even 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.
| Free
Not completely. The associated Android app I just bought is $2. Though it's still not much.
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#14And to make it even better (if you use OSX):
Install GeekTool and use the shell "Geeklet" to affix the todo list permanently on your desktop background. You can adjust the font/size/transparency to make it as obnoxious as needed.
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#15Paper. just a single piece of 8.5x11 paper. Anything more complex means I'm trying to do more work than I can handle.
An old colleague of mine.. and CFO of our company.. used to manage his tasks on a piece of paper. It was always in his folder, and for each task he'd write a note on the paper and then draw a box around it. As he completed each task, he'd scratch out the box.
It was crude and messy and reminded me of high school.
A couple of years ago, I found myself migrating towards something like it. I use large index cards, but.. more or less, do the same thing.
I still have remnants of every to do app on my iPhone. In each app there's abandoned lists of tasks that got recorded and forgotten, or recorded and "re-prioritized", forever.
The nice thing about the card is, if it's mostly scratched out and there are things left on it, you can copy the items to a new, fresh card and then keep going. If the items aren't that important, it's as simple as throwing whole card away. It's satisfying and simple and there's no process-guilt involved.
"Throw card out" is a feature.
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#16Ooooh, OK this was genius. Sold. I hope this helps though.
The comments are much more useful and valid.
I understand the argument against editing a file in /etc for something only one user is concerned about, but I've been the sole user of every computer I've had, so this doesn't matter to me. I think that's the case for a lot of people.
The other arguments seem to be preference. Some people work better with paper. Some people only want system configuration in /etc. If you're a stickler for the Single Responsibility Principle in the config files in your OS, then I assume you already have your own solution to this problem and you don't need a tutorial from me.
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#17What 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.
Wow, that's a really neat idea. I'm definitely going to try this, cheers.
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#18Paper. just a single piece of 8.5x11 paper. Anything more complex means I'm trying to do more work than I can handle.
An old colleague of mine.. and CFO of our company.. used to manage his tasks on a piece of paper. It was always in his folder, and for each task he'd write a note on the paper and then draw a box around it. As he completed each task, he'd scratch out the box. It was crude and messy and reminded me of high school. A couple of years ago, I found myself migrating towards something like it. I use large index cards, but..…
Yep. I've also got the zombie accounts and databases all over everywhere.
I like that the paper gets full and I have to copy it to a new sheet. It forces me to review the things on the list. Things that stay on the list naturally migrate to the top of the list. I start to notice them hanging out there, at the top, where they are the first reminder that they have been at the top of the list for so long.
The system has many emergent features.
Re: The best todo list app for any developer
#19Even 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.
+1 for todo.txt. I used it extensively all of last year and saw an immense boost in productivity. Best part is the ability to write plugins.
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#20How did I not know this! Elegant. Thank you. Fantastic having it appear before anything else the shell does.