I've seen the following message when I tried to use todolist in the directory not initialized.

No todo file found!
Initialize a new todo repo by running 'todo init'

I think it's more comfortable if we could use it in any directories.
Can I make a PR for this feature?

parsing time "Invalid date" as "2006-01-02": cannot parse "Invalid date" as "2006"
This may due to the corruption of .todos.json file.

This error pops up when I try to list my tasks (todolist list, todolist list by project, todolist list by context).

It started to happen after using the web version (opened with todolist web), maybe it could be cause by manipulating both the web version and the CLI at the same time, it seems that some action in the web version corrupted the .todos.json files.

Web version is also not working (it doesn't let you add tasks nor check them as completed), but at least it is displaying (I think) all of the tasks.

Great software, by the way 👍

EDIT: I revised the problem and updated the issue.
EDIT: Examining the .todos.json file, it seems that one of the events has an "Invalid date" in the "due" property, that was expected, but also, the task that has this value also has a period: "." in it, could this has something to do with the error? I think I have added the task, and after manipulating it (by changing date from web interface) it crashed. After manually repairing the .todos.json file, now everything is working fine.

I'd like to add keyboard shortcuts to the web app. Having keyboard shortcuts would to navigate the app faster.

When I run todolist a with no other arguments, it creates a new todo entry consisting only of the letter 'a'

I just started using the app, and I like it so far.

However, the very big problem is that tasks are stored only in one directory. If I move to another directory and try to list my tasks, what I get is:

No todo file found!
Initialize a new todo repo by running 'todo init'

 all

I want to be able to manage my tasks no matter in which directory I am.
The simple solution is to add a possibility to run the app with and option like --task-dir so I can define a location where all of my tasks are.

Then, I'd just create an alias to always run the app in a way like: todo --task-dir ~/tasks.

when listing todos, if one have a long list of todos as I have, the space between the brackets (todos state) and the todo description makes it difficult to see which todo is done and which is not yet done.

One easy solution (and common ui pattern) would be to strikethrough the task description.

The ANSI/VT100 terminals and terminal emulators are not just able to display black and white or color text; they can display formatted texts thanks to escape sequences.

The following echo -e "\e[9mstrikethrough\e[0m"would display the text "strikethrough" well... striked through.

command like this "todo l uncompleted"

When on Xubuntu 16.04 64-bit I run docker build -t todolist . I get at the end:

Step 8 : RUN go install github.com/gammons/todolist
 ---> Running in 8d7e755c5024
# github.com/gammons/todolist
/usr/lib/go/pkg/tool/linux_amd64/link: running gcc failed: exit status 1
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-alpine-linux-musl/6.2.1/../../../../x86_64-alpine-linux-musl/bin/ld: cannot find Scrt1.o: No such file or directory
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-alpine-linux-musl/6.2.1/../../../../x86_64-alpine-linux-musl/bin/ld: cannot find crti.o: No such file or directory
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-alpine-linux-musl/6.2.1/../../../../x86_64-alpine-linux-musl/bin/ld: cannot find -lpthread
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-alpine-linux-musl/6.2.1/../../../../x86_64-alpine-linux-musl/bin/ld: cannot find -lssp_nonshared
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

Been having this issue where I have many archived todos (say 10). Would be nice to be able to do one of these:

todo d 1,2,3,4
todo d 1..4

Otherwise it's a wee bit repetitive. Great work on this, finding it very useful!

As shown above, there are some issues with Win CMD.

There might be a useful issue that can help solve this problem. sirupsen/logrus#496

By the way, I only can get readable output on Git Bash with no color output.

This would be nice. If we could figure out a way to support both subject editing and due date editing (which is currently supported) Maybe a regex to test?

todolist e 49 "make a new edit due tom"
todolist e 49 due apr 10

I can't seem to figure this one out. It only happens sometimes.

Right now running gometalinter produces ~170 potential warnings. Some of them can be ignored (like exported symbols) others, however, cannot (like ignoring errors). I don't have sufficient knowledge of this project to judge where errors could be safely ignored and where they couldn't, so I'm asking you for advice.

Thanks.

😃

When I add tasks via the web (after issuing todolist web), and return to the command line and enter: todolist list, the tasks that were added via the browser are not numbered. Instead they all have a value of 0. As a result, if you enter todolist d 0, it will just delete the highest task in the list with a 0 next to it.

screenshot

Currently, we parse the cmd arguments manually and arbitrarily, which makes enhancements such as #59 difficult or containing too much duplicated work.

While the official flags package treats cmd args good, it implements Unix convention rather than todolist's sub-command style. How about applying cmd packages such as urfave/cli or fps13/cobra? Or does this incur unnecessary complexity?

Hi,

I have been working with this for a little while now, and it is great. Loving it, thanks for the great work.

A small enhancement I thought of is to be able to remove a due date, not just edit it, but completely remove a due date from a task. I have been rereading the docs but could figure out a way of doing this besides removing the task and recreating it.

Hope you like this idea.

Can you please indicate me how to install it in ubuntu system ? by the way, I think that the documentation should be improved.

Thanks

Hi,

First, I love your tool, thanks :)

When I ran

todolist web

I can go on the 7890 port of my server but I only got a circle turning around. How can I debug it or understand what I miss ?

Thanks.

Using the dockerfile to create a container. Works well when accessing browser locally. Does not work when accessing todo list web service from another machine (not localhost). Appears links on the page are always generated with localhost as host name. When I attempt to access remotely, the page is attempting to access http://localhost:7890/todos instead of http://[hostname]:7890/todos. The page displays an error stating "A backend failure occurred". http://[hostname]:7890/todos does provide proper json output.

Hello,

It seems the web view does not work anymore :
The external resources returns a 404 error code

Or maybe I misunderstood something ?

Hey there,

Replication steps:

• Add some todos, launch local web server
• Verify locally you can see your new custom todos
• ngrok http PORT and open new live URL
• You will see a default list of .todos.json here, not the user generated todos

I also tried with other port forwarding services https://forwardhq.com/ etc and same result.

Figure I can leave port forwarding running on my local machine to use this on my phone, but need to first figure out how to get user generated todos rendering. :)

Agenda is helpful to show what's next on your todo list. Unfortunately, tasks that are already done are included in the list.

It would be great to have agenda only show unfinished tasks. I don't think there is any value in looking at already finished tasks on the agenda.

Any thoughts on this?

running the web view appears to display the demo todo list instead of the .todos.json file in the current directory. restarts of the web view displays a new demo.

Looking through the website and repo, I can't seem to find any information on the "preferred" way to sync todos across multiple machines. Since I use multiple machines on a daily basis, its pretty critical that I'm able to do this.

I considered symlinking the json file into dropbox or such, but that seems hacky.

I'm just wondering if this was something that you had considered so far.

I notice that I tend to archive completed todos immediately. It would be nice to look back at what was checked off today.

todolist l completed today
todolist l completed this week

I just tried your tool on windows and it works great, but the readability of blue text is really bad. You should consider usage of the "Hi" variants of the colors. The readability gets improved a lot by that.

It looks awesome but I cannot find support for recurring tasks. Do you have a plan to support it? I would be happy if it can tell me to pull rubbish bins to roadside every Thursday.

No matter for success or error message, fmt.Println is used in most of the cases, which is normal. But there are exceptions like the parseArbitraryDateWithYear function in parser.go, which calls fmt.Errorf with panic function to show the date is not parsable.

IMHO, it is not necessary to apply panic. A user who encounters the panic most likely just mistypes a todo command, so there is no need to show the user the runtime stack and all the dumps.

Problem

I'm using todolist on Windows 10 with Git bash's terminal and the colors aren't currently showing up. The colors do appear on PowerShell but not on the bash-esk terminal. Simply wanted to check if there is anything specific I need to do for colors. (Notice other things like ls --color=auto do show on the terminal in addition to the colored prompt I display below)

Hi gammons,

 I'm very like this tools, Have you any plan to support window ?

The newest version don't have the precompile binary link to donwload.

Hey, nice project! I just have few questions at first glance:

• How can I backup my TODOs to the cloud, i.e. to the Google Drive, Dropbox, etc?
• Is it possible to sync my TODO list with multiple devices? I mean, I have a few laptops where I want to have the same TODO list. If I add more TODOs on one laptop - it automatically sync with the second one and I can see added TODOs on the second laptop too.

t a testing due 9 may

The todo is added, but it has no date.

It would be cool to have functionality to add notes to a todo.

t an 56 https://3.basecamp.com/3650215/buckets/2602510/messages/504658001
note added to todo 56.
t an 56 This is dependent on @bob's work on the other ticket.
note added to todo 56.

t n 56
Notes for todo 56:
* This is dependent on @bob's work on the other ticket.
* https://3.basecamp.com/3650215/buckets/2602510/messages/504658001

Questions:

• Would this be useful?
• How to edit/delete individual notes?
• Do we surface these notes as part of listing todos?

When using todolist l , it would be nice to indicate which todo entries have a note attached to it.
Maybe something like a * to indicate that the todo as more information than what is actually shown.

Currently the todo_item has a completed field. It would be beneficial for reporting reasons, to have a completed_date or completed_timestamp as part of the todo_item.

The default list is at ~/.todos.json, adding clutter to the home directory (which bothers pedants like me!).

Most systems have defined better places to store data, such as:

• $XDG_DATA_HOME on *nix (specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec)
• ~/Library/Application Support/ on macOS

According to the GTD principles, one has to keep clarifying his/her goals/todos, such that each todo is very clear to understand. However, sometimes it is hard to organize the actionable items in one step.

With this new feature, people can now record some brief todos at first, and then divide them into more do-able todos.

The introduced syntax is as follows:

todolist expand ID +project: todo1[ ,todo2 ...]
todolist ex ID +project: todo1[ ,todo2 ...]

Once a legal expanding request is processed, the todos are added, and the todo with specified ID is deleted.

To repro:

1. complete a todo
2. t l by p
3. Notice the completed todo does not appear.

@stuartskelton I believe this is related to your changes on completed date, but I am not sure!

Per the comments of multiple users, I think we should implement this workflow:

1. when running todolist, see if a .todos.json exists in the current working directory.
2. If yes, use that .todos.json.
3. If no, use ~/.todos.json.

Also, add documentation to the gh-pages branch to let users know this is how the app works.

PRs welcome!

In the webpage about the isntallation, it's not go install github.com/gammons/todolist but go get github.com/gammons/todolist.

So now that notes have been added, I have started to use the todolist to log things I have done and involves me doing:

t a fixed x server
t c [id]

It would be nice to have this wrapped into one command:

t done did some work on x server

so under the hood it would auto complete the item

A command line gtd todo manager is exactly the sort of thing I'm looking for but would it be possible to add syncing your tasks feature for those who have to work on multiple devices like me?

Feature Request / Proposal / Pony.

First cool project, this is clearly a feature pony but thought I would share.
Would be nice if I was still allowed to edit the file like a todo.md in text editor of choice.

Proposal to maintain the speed and ease of the json data structure would be to put the json datastructure in a comment at the bottom of the markdown file as well as an md5 hash of the text above the comment. On read it checks the md5 and updates the json if necessary, on write it updates the text and md5. In the majority of cases the md5 is the same so no reparsing necessary and it maintains its speediness. And it gains the added benefit of being renderable with markdown.

# Todo
- [ ] My todo @work +project due tomorrow
- [ ] My other todo @home

# Archive
- [x] Already done @home

<!-- md5:0b34db8fb67cff70c882618d405f0b3f -->
<!-- [{"id":1,"subject":"My todo @work +project","projects":["project"],"contexts":["work"],"due":"2016-09-22","completed":false,"archived":false},{"id":2,"subject":"My other todo @home","projects":[],"contexts":["home"],"due":"","completed":false,"archived":false}] -->

Due to extra characters which gets printed makes the original text unreadable.

• apt for ubuntu
• pacman
• etc.

It looks like when the 'ln' option is used to show all todos and their notes, the date/task field are being pushed to the right to make room for the note fields, even though those are on a separate line.

I would expect the main todo line (with the number, [ ] status and date) to be formatted the same whether I'm viewing the notes of a task or not.

p.s. even with this, I'm loving the notes!