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Re: The best todo list app for any developer

#41

Because "any developer" of course uses a system with a motd. Or wants to be reminded of all todos whenever opening a terminal. What's with this HN hype of turning "Hey, look, I do X" into "if you're a Y, like I am, you should do X"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_bait

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Re: The best todo list app for any developer

#43
post #5

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.

I prefer a hierarchical TODO list a-la MLO: http://www.mylifeorganized.net/ But that one is a rather expensive since it requires a cloud subscription if you want to sync it across all of your devices.

Re: The best todo list app for any developer

#44
post #5

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.

not sure if there's an ios version(there is an android app), but if you don't edit the todo.txt in a normal editor normally you might want to take a look at taskwarrior http://taskwarrior.org/projects/show/taskwarrior

it has import scripts from several things including todo.sh, and several export scripts including ical. there's a decent third party android app if you really want that.

it has task undo support, and generally seems much more powerful than todo.sh.

obviously main advantage of todo.sh is that you can edit the file in a plain text editor.

Re: The best todo list app for any developer

#45
post #5

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.

I just paired todo.txt with this technique by adding:

    cat $HOME/Dropbox/todo/todo.txt
to my .bashrc file.

Re: The best todo list app for any developer

#47
Oh man! I've been looking for a great to-do list manager for so long. I've tried many different ways and more recently many mobile apps. I'm afraid at the end of the day it boils down to, in big part, discipline. I'm all ears if you know a great to-do app. Maybe it'll become more natural using wearable tech in the near future.

Re: The best todo list app for any developer

#48

Because "any developer" of course uses a system with a motd. Or wants to be reminded of all todos whenever opening a terminal. What's with this HN hype of turning "Hey, look, I do X" into "if you're a Y, like I am, you should do X"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_bait

I'm not clicking that

Re: The best todo list app for any developer

#49
When work life starts to get complicated, I find a pad of lined paper and list things out one per line. As I get stuff done I cross them off the list.

The main advantage of this approach is that having to keep a pad of paper around tells me that my life is getting too complicated and I do whatever I have to to cut it back down to basics, ditching the tools. I would loathe it if I had to institutionalize this complexity in the form of an app.

Re: The best todo list app for any developer

#50
post #8

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.

No, it will not.
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