Since a few weeks I use the jnitodo todo list manager for managing my todo list.
jnitodo was written by myself,
so it matches my requirements quite well and it might match yours!
Features
jnitodo has some nice features. First of all it is console based and written in
perl. I tested it on Mac OSX and FreeBSD. Secondly it has support for
GTD like contexts. Using contexts is in fact
obligatory. It should be noted that
wait is a special context which
will ask for who or what you are waiting.
Queue support
The feature I am most proud of however is its queueing support. Forget about
manually adding all tasks. Think procmail. Think cron. Think atd. Think nagios.
Think bluetooth. Think sftp. The sky is the limit.
How does the queue support work? In the config file of jnitodo you must
define a queue directory. In this directory you can place files with lines in
one of the following formats:
context:todo
wait:who:waitingfor
i.e. a line in a queue file could be:
train:write blog post about jnitodo
wait:Jeroen van Nieuwenhuizen:release of a new jnitodo version
Note that the queue function will not add duplicate entries to your existing
todo list.
Usage
The usage of jnitodo is quite simple. You need to create a config file with lines like:
todofile=/Users/jnieuwen/files/t/todos/todo.txt
queuedir=/Users/jnieuwen/queue/jnitodo
Of course you need to adjust the paths to match your situation. Then you have
to make sure you have an empty todofile. So create it with
touch /Users/jnieuwen/files/t/todos/todo.txt
where of course you need to substitute
/Users/jnieuwen/files/t/todos/todo.txt for your value of the todofile parameter
in the config file.
Now you can run jnitodo with the command:
jnitodo.pl /path/to/config_file
For usage information you can press the ? key to get the help.
Download
jnitodo can be downloaded
here. It should be noted that
there is room for improvement in jnitodo.
Questions? Ideas? Send an
email or drop them in the comments.
