Usage

Here's an example usage with the aliases:

$ t feed the plants
1. feed the plants
$ t water the cat
1. feed the plants
2. water the cat
$ t
1. feed the plants
2. water the cat
$ t brush the cat
1. feed the plants
2. water the cat
3. brush the cat
$ d cat
!! multiple matches !!
2. water the cat
3. brush the cat
$ d brush
1. feed the plants
2. water the cat
$ d 1
1. water the cat
$ tail -5 $TODOHISTORY
+ feed the plants; Wed Mar 20 23:49:37 EDT 2013
+ water the cat; Wed Mar 20 23:49:39 EDT 2013
+ brush the cat; Wed Mar 20 23:49:54 EDT 2013
- brush the cat; Wed Mar 20 23:50:37 EDT 2013
- feed the plants; Wed Mar 20 23:50:39 EDT 2013
$ todos_completed -1hour
√ brush the cat
√ feed the plants

The lists are just plain text files, so it's easy to open them up and edit them by hand whenever that's necessary.

Installation

Clone the repo somewhere on your $PATH, like maybe ~/bin if you use that:

git clone git@github.com:mattjj/todo-bash.git ~/bin/todo

These programs require an environment variable TODOFILE be set to a path at which the todo list will be stored as a plain text file. There are also a couple optional variables. You might add something like this to your .bashrc or .zshrc:

export TODOFILE=~/Dropbox/todo/todo
export TODOHISTORY=~/Dropbox/todo/todo-history
alias t=todo
alias d=todone

or this to your config.fish:

set -x TODOFILE ~/Dropbox/todo/todo
set -x TODOHISTORY ~/Dropbox/todo/todo-history
alias t=todo
alias d=todone