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A command line todo utility

Inspired by Steve Losh's t.

I made this because I really like Steve's t but I wanted:

• nice, big checkboxes
• to see completed tasks
• tasks always printed after every command
• identify tasks by their text (partial match)
• multiple lists with the same command
• a pure bash implementation

Install

Copy the source of x into a file called x (or whatever you want) and save it in some directory that exists in your PATH.

Quick start

Managing tasks

Create some tasks

$ x Play 5 or 6 hours of video games
[ ] Play 5 or 6 hours of video games
$ x Walk the dog
[ ] Walk the dog

A file called todo will be created in ~/todos. You can customize this directory by exporting X_TODO_DIR.

List all tasks

$ x
[ ] Play 5 or 6 hours of video games
[ ] Walk the dog

Finish a task

$ x -x dog
[ ] Play 5 or 6 hours of video games
[x] Walk the dog

x just matches on some substring of your task name.

Purge completed tasks

$ x -p
[ ] Play 5 or 6 hours of video games

Managing task lists

Create a new task list

$ x -n some_list

List task lists

$ x -l
* some_list
  todo

Switch to a different list

$ x -c todo # "c" as in "current"

All commands

$ x -h
x             List all tasks for current list
x Some item   Add task called "Some item" to the current list
x -x "item"   Check off the task containing "item"
x -X "item"   Uncheck the task containing "item"
x -d "item"   Delete task containing "item"
x -S          Sorts the current list
x -p          Purge completed tasks in the current list
x -n          Create a new todo list
x -l          Print all todo lists
x -c list     Make <list> the current list
x -t          Print uncompleted tasks only
x -T          Print completed tasks only
x -s          Print the status for the current list
x -e          Opens the todo file in $EDITOR