Likely just ramblings about vim.

I’ve started using a TODO list. I looked into a number of vim based solutions like vim-org-mode and vim-notes, but they all felt a bit too complex.

In the end I settled on todo.txt-cli which is a terminal program that manages a set of text base todo lists. It has a bunch of base features such as projects, tags, priorities, reports, and archiving. There is also a bunch of plugins that give you things like syncing with git/google-tasks, scheduling, recurring tasks, and printing. There are also GUI based programs and mobile apps.

I wrote a couple of bash functions and aliases to automatically workout what project I’m working on based on git dir:

TODO_SH="path/to/script/todo.sh"
alias todo="$TODO_SH"
alias tdo="$TODO_SH do"

_get_project_todos() {
    local git_dir=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null)
    if [ "$git_dir" != "" ] ; then
        local root_name=$( basename $git_dir )
        local num_proj_todo="$($TODO_SH ls +$root_name | wc -l | sed -e's/ *//')"
        echo $( expr $num_proj_todo - 2 )
    else
        local root_name=""
        echo "0"
    fi
}

_get_non_project_todos() {
    local git_dir=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null)
    if [ "$git_dir" != "" ] ; then
        local root_name=$( basename $git_dir )
        local num_non_proj_todo="$($TODO_SH ls -+$root_name | wc -l | sed -e's/ *//')"
    else
        local root_name=""
        local num_non_proj_todo="$($TODO_SH ls | wc -l | sed -e's/ *//')"
    fi
    echo $( expr $num_non_proj_todo - 2 )
}

ta() {
    if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
        echo "no arguments given fucktard :("
        return 0
    fi
    local git_dir=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null)
    if [ "$git_dir" != "" ] ; then
       local root_name=$( basename $git_dir )
       $TODO_SH add +$root_name $@
    else
       local root_name=""
       $TODO_SH add $@
    fi
}

tls () {
    local git_dir=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null)
    if [ "$git_dir" != "" ] ; then
       local root_name=$( basename $git_dir )
       $TODO_SH list +$root_name $@
    else
       local root_name=""
       $TODO_SH list $@
    fi
}

#right handside of oh-my-zsh theme
RPROMPT='%{$fg['cyan']%}$(_get_project_todos)%{$reset_color%}|%{$fg['blue']%}$(_get_non_project_todos)%{$reset_color%}'

I really like the idea of the remote syncing and recurring tasks. I also would like to be able to track time against these tasks using toggl, so that might be a plugin that needs writing!