What does HackerNews think of todo.txt?

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0. Unfortunately, I cannot find the link anymore. I think it was one of those "what I learned during my 50 years as a senior software engineer". The author possibly mentioned using Kate-editor. It was a really good article.

1. Espanso (free): https://espanso.org

2. Amazing Marvin (paid): https://amazingmarvin.com

3. Obsidian (free/subscription for sync): https://obsidian.md

4. Logseq (free): https://logseq.com

5. EasyOrg (paid): https://easyorgmode.com/

6. todo.txt format: https://github.com/todotxt/todo.txt

7. pter: https://github.com/vonshednob/pter

    For developers, there's no such thing as the ultimate todo-utility

Actually, it's org-mode. But for the rest of us non-Emacs users, there's todo.txt:

https://github.com/todotxt/todo.txt

As an alternative, the todo.txt format [1][2] first defined in 2006 [3] is supported by a CLI client (desktop) and several GUI clients (desktop, mobile, web).

[1]: https://github.com/todotxt/todo.txt

[2]: http://todotxt.org/

[3]: https://web.archive.org/web/20060701121920/https://lifehacke...

This is really cool. I am endlessly fascinated by the proliferation of "productivity apps" when I find the same thing as you: that they are quite unnecessary.

My approach is similar. I already take notes via a Bash script. I configure a particular "label" for any todos and (essentially) just grep for them, excluding those that are crossed out (with Markdown tildes). This approach works great for me as a Staff Engineer in a large tech company. Reference: https://github.com/scottashipp/noted/blob/main/subcommands.m...

I also wanted to mention there are several related ideas / movements around the web. One of the biggest is todotxt. In case you hadn't heard of it: https://github.com/todotxt/todo.txt