The Todo.txt Command Line Interface (CLI)

The Todo.txt Command Line Interface (CLI)

The sheer geekiness of this app warrants being posted but once you get past all the command line goodness – for those of us who routinely use basic text files for our daily todo’s and outlines – this is, at the very least, worth spending a little time playing with.

If you’ve got a file called todo.txt on your computer right now, you’re in the right place. Countless software applications and web sites can manage your to-do list with all sorts of bells and whistles. But if you don’t want to depend on someone else’s data format or someone else’s server, a plain text file is the way to go.

Problem is, you don’t want to launch a full-blown text editor every time you need to add an item to your to-do list, or mark one that’s already there as complete. With a simple but powerful shell script called todo.sh, you can interact with todo.txt at the command line for quick and easy, Unix-y access.