Posts Tagged ‘to-do list’

Todo.txt Command Line Interface Updated Today

February 18th, 2009, 9 comments

Todo.txt CLI 2.0 Not only am I the kind of hopeless nerd who spends a lot of time in the terminal, I'm also the kind who, in the face of countless elegant pieces of task management software, decides to write my own.

Today I released the newest version of my three-year-old todo.txt command line interface--a 600-line bash script that lets me add to, check off, and slice and dice my todo.txt file without a full-on editor.

To download it and try it out, or just see a screencast of it in action, check out my full writeup at Lifehacker this morning: Todo.txt CLI Manages Your Tasks from the Command Line.

How to Write To-Do’s You’ll Get Done
January 14th, 2009

I published a short piece over at Harvard Business about how to write a good to-do list. I still struggle with crossing stuff off my to-do list daily, but when I follow those two guidelines, there's a lot more movement in my task queue.