Show HN: Resimplifying Todo.txt

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5 years ago

Gina Trapani had great idea to keep tasks in plain text files and organize them with small shell script (http://todotxt.org). But through the time that "simple script" became a monster: 1349 sloc. One thousand, three hundred fourty nine lines of code in the shell script.

I wrote really small script that can respect the simplicity of todo.txt, has colors and couple of new really little improvements that I found useful: pinned tasks and sorting by 'due:'. The script is 33 lines of code. 33 lines, Gina, not 1349. Simple stupid.

You can check it here: https://github.com/asakura42/todo.sh

What do you think? Can todo.txt still be good solution for some tasks?