gmane.comp.diary.todotxt

Re: Feature request discussion, todo.txt-touch Projects View

Gina Trapani — 2013-05-19T18:43:40

Hi Brandon,

This is an interesting idea; I'm open to testing/tweaking a prototype if a
developer is available to implement it.

Personally, I treat todo.txt as my "next actions" list, just the things I
need to do next to move a project along. I almost never list every single
action required to finish a project in it (mostly because I'm lazy, but
also because I'm never clear on all the actions I'll need to complete to
reach the finish line). This rendered projectview useless for me
personally, but I'm sure that's not the case for everyone.

My only concern about a feature like this is that it potentially makes
todo.txt appear to be a project manager instead of just a simple todo list,
and that's a deep rabbit hole.

Thoughts from anyone else?

Sent from my mobile
On May 11, 2013 9:09 AM, "Brandon Wood" <btwood22-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:

Re: Google add-on Google tasks with dates

Andrew McIntosh — 2013-05-16T01:45:33

Hi John,
I didn't add any support for due dates in the Google tasks addon as the
todo.txt format does not support due dates.

The add on could fairly easily be adapted to both push and pull a due date
if you standardise on a (hopefully easily parsed) format for where yhe due
date should be included in your todos (much in the way the completed date
in the good line updates the due field in Google tasks).

Hope that helps a little.
Andrew

Re: View module: inverse filter multiple contexts/projects

Harpo Jaeger — 2013-05-15T20:41:34

In other words, it was just a case of me not knowing regex syntax well
enough.  Hope this is helpful to someone else too!


On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Harpo Jaeger <harpo.jaeger-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w< at >public.gmane.org>wrote:

Re: View module: inverse filter multiple contexts/projects

Harpo Jaeger — 2013-05-15T20:41:15

Ah HA: got it!
t view project '-< at >foo\|< at >bar'


On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Harpo Jaeger <harpo.jaeger-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w< at >public.gmane.org>wrote:

Re: View module: inverse filter multiple contexts/projects

Harpo Jaeger — 2013-05-15T12:44:09

Yeah, I'm hoping to avoid that if at all possible, but I suppose it's an
option.  Anyone else have thoughts about the filtering issue?


On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 6:03 AM, José Filipe Santos <
zefilipe.groups-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:

Google add-on Google tasks with dates

John Niendorf — 2013-05-15T11:58:05

I've been playing with the Google add-on to sync my todo.txt with Google tasks and I was wondering does anyone know how to get due dates from Google tasks to show up in todo.txt?
If I just add the date to a task, like with the schedule add-on Google doesn't see that as a date.  
What I want is for Google to see the due date of a task and put a notice on that day in the calendar.

I found a script called Tasky on GitHub that does what I want, the problem is that if I then use the todo.txt add-on to pull from Google, todo.txt can't read the due date and the task is not pulled.  I think this is because Tasky puts the due dates on a second line.  Without the due date todo.txt pulls the tasks just fine.

Ideas anyone?

Re: View module: inverse filter multiple contexts/projects

José Filipe Santos — 2013-05-15T10:03:56

i think the best you do is to had different todo.txt instances, one for
projects, other for home ... is the way i organize my tasks :-)


On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Harpo Jaeger <harpo.jaeger-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w< at >public.gmane.org>wrote:

Re: Todo.txt for Android - Cannot get past Dropbox authentication

Askew Aaron — 2013-05-14T19:38:14

Solved.

I installed the dropbox app, and all is well.  I don't recall seeing this as a sys requirement anywhere, only that a dropbox account is required.

Thanks,
Aaron

On May 13, 2013, at 10:48 PM, Askew Aaron <aaronaskew-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:




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View module: inverse filter multiple contexts/projects

Harpo Jaeger — 2013-05-14T15:01:59

I use view to generate custom lists of my tasks so that I can easily see
what I need to do in a variety of contexts, while storing everything in the
same todo.txt file.  So at my work computer, I have a GeekTool Geeklet
showing only things tagged < at >GC (I run http://globalconversation.org) using
"t view project < at >GC", and on my personal laptop, I have one displaying
results of "t view project -< at >GC" so I can keep 'em separate in day-to-day
life but still access that list or add things if I think of something on
the go.
Problem is, I want to introduce some more contexts that I need to be able
to filter out.  I haven't been able to figure out how to get view to take
multiple filter options – "t view project -< at >GC -< at >whatever" and "t view
project -'< at >GC|< at >whatever'" don't work, for example.
Is this a matter of me not knowing regex syntax well enough (I'm pretty new
to that), or is this just not possible?
Thanks in advance,
-Harpo

Re: running multiple instances

José Filipe Santos — 2013-05-14T10:02:50

I can had somethink like

todo/
todo/projects/
todo.cfg
todo.txt
done.txt

todo/home
todo.cfg
todo.txt
done.txt

And access right to this in android todotxt touch ?
I only had to modify dropbox location ? Or is there a any mode to switch
projects to work and the reverse ?

Regards



On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 2:19 PM, G. Wade Johnson <gwadej-iD5mEKB8uZFAfugRpC6u6w< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:

Todo.txt for Android - Cannot get past Dropbox authentication

Askew Aaron — 2013-05-14T04:05:15

I just upgraded to an HTC Droid DNA.  I was previously using an HTC Thunderbolt, and had todo.txt working without issue.  

Upon installation of the todo.txt, I was asked to confirm the app's access to my dropbox account.  

I am taken to dropbox.com, log in, accept the access, and it takes me right back to the "Welcome to Todo.txt" [Connect to Dropbox] screen.  

-Double checked that the password is correct.
-Manually disallowed the app from Dropbox.com and went through the process again.  The app's access definitely shows up on Dropbox.com in "My Apps"

I also use a custom folder for todo.txt within Dropbox, but I am unable to get to any application settings on the Android app.

Your help is appreciated.

Thank you,
Aaron 

HTC Droid DNA
4.1.1

Script to add ToDo.txt tasks to remind for Linux

John Niendorf — 2013-05-12T18:12:31

This will probably not be useful to many people on this list, so sorry for the spam, but someone may find it helpful.
I am running Linux and use a program called remind in conjunction with another program called gxmessage to generate pop-up reminders of things that are really important.

I got tired of having to copy and paste items from my todo.txt file into my reminders file so that I could get a pop-up reminder as well as just having the todo.txt list shown on my desktop.

I wrote this pretty simple BASH script, which I'm sure someone with more coding experience than I have can improve greatly.
(In fact, I hope someone does.)

#!/bin/bash
cat -n ~/Dropbox/todo/todo.txt
read -p "Enter the line number of the task to add to remind " task
sed -n "$task"p ~/Dropbox/todo/todo.txt
message=$(sed -n "$task"p ~/Dropbox/todo/todo.txt)
read -p "What is the trigger date of the reminder?:" triggerdate
read -p "H0w many days in advance should this appear?" daysadvance
read -p "What is the trigger time of the reminder?:"

Feature request discussion, todo.txt-touch Projects View

Brandon Wood — 2013-05-11T16:09:22

One of the weaknesses of todo.txt-touch right now is a lack of projects
view.

While projects can be filtered, I think when your list gets above 100 items
(as I am sure most GTD devotees' lists are), it becomes difficult to feel
progress towards projects, as you cannot easily see them moving along.

The todo.sh script has a birdseye.py add-on that fixes this problem,
creating little text-based progress bars, as I am sure you are all aware.
I'm a fan of aliasing a modified birdseye output along w/ the top 10 todo
items and dropping that onto my desktop.

Within todo.txt-touch (and perhaps the iOS version, I'm not sure), how can
we get an equivalent feature? Is that something folks are even interested
in?

How might that feature behave? Where would it reside?

I offer a bold suggestion: tab the main view.

At the top of the main view, a tab for Projects and Actions. Actions tab
would contain the list as it currently stands, while the Projects view
would show a list of the projects (e.g. +getnewtires, +websiter

Re: ToDo.txt and popup reminders

Harpo Jaeger — 2013-05-10T20:14:20

Yeah, should've specified that - sorry.
On May 10, 2013 3:39 PM, "John Niendorf" <john-fk+hjVoDha0nBD3+r+Xgpw< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:

Re: ToDo.txt and popup reminders

John Niendorf — 2013-05-10T19:39:03

I accidentally deleted the message so I'm not sure who suggested GeekTool, but it looks like that is a Mac program.
I'm on Linux.  I keep forgetting that Windows and Mac folks can use ToDo.txt too.

Re: ToDo.txt and popup reminders

Harpo Jaeger — 2013-05-10T18:09:09

GeekTool is great for this.


On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 2:07 PM, John Niendorf <john-fk+hjVoDha0nBD3+r+Xgpw< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:

ToDo.txt and popup reminders

John Niendorf — 2013-05-10T18:07:49

Hi Folks,

I was wondering what you all use for reminders?
I've been using remind and have it set to pop-up with a message when it is time to do something.
I was thinking that it would be really cool if I could incorporate my ToDo.txt file into reminder.  That would require pulling the items with due dates out of ToDo.txt and converting them to REM format.
I don't really have the skills to write the add-on to do that and I was wondering if anyone else might be interested in giving it a shot?

Re: schedule extension

Harpo Jaeger — 2013-05-09T13:46:15

Works like an absolute charm.  Thanks for the help, everyone!


On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Harpo Jaeger <harpo.jaeger-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:

Re: I'm also having addin trouble - not in addins list

John Niendorf — 2013-05-09T12:47:14

Ok - I got it. ToDo.txt wasn't reading the folder I made called todo.actions.d it was looking at a folder I didn't realize I had .todo.actions.d

Everything is working now.  

Sent from my iPhone that has NO wi-fi capability. 

On 9 maj 2013, at 00:34, John Niendorf <john-fk+hjVoDha0nBD3+r+Xgpw< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:

I'm also having addin trouble - not in addins list

John Niendorf — 2013-05-08T22:34:30

Hi Guys,

I've been trying to set up ToDo.txt Google Task Sync.

The code is at:
https://github.com/amcintosh/todo.txt-cli/blob/google-tasks-addon/.todo.actions.d/google

I have the Google API Client Library installed and put my Client_ID and Client_Secret in the python script.

Specifically I'm having several strange problems:

1. The addon does not appear when I run t listaddons in the terminal.  (I have other addons that do appear however.)
This means that when I try to run the script from within ToDo.txt, I get an error message telling me which commands ToDo.txt will accept.

2. I managed to get the script to go to Google and let me authorize it, by typing a command twice.
Specifically, the command to push my todo list to Google is: google push all
I had to type google push push all

3. If I try to run the script by itself I get an error message about usage unless I type a double command: google push push all or google pull pull
Now the really weird part is that if I do invoke the script I get this error

Re: Problems implementing the projctview addon - some suggestions please?

Scot Newbury — 2013-05-08T22:32:10

Looking at what you have, try changing the line:

export TODO_ACTIONS_DIR="$HOME/todo/.todo.actions.d

to

export TODO_ACTIONS_DIR="$TODO_DIR/.todo.actions.d

I have mine set up that way as I keep my addons in a dropbox folder to make
it easier to add them all to whichever system I'm working on.

Hope that helps.

Scot


On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 1:04 PM, mikedetmar <mike-Elh6XsAxSjsdnm+yROfE0A< at >public.gmane.org> wrote: