todotxt/todo.txt-cli

Features

• Plain Text Task Tracking - Organizes and tracks to-do lists using simple text files to ensure maximum portability and longevity.
• Command Line Task Lists - Provides a task management system operated entirely through a terminal interface for streamlined daily workloads.
• Productivity Workflow Automations - Manipulates task data through shell scripts and custom actions to create personalized productivity workflows.
• Task Completion Tracking - Allows marking items as finished by adding a completion date.
• Task Creation - Enables appending new entries to a task list with automatic date inclusion or interactive input.
• Task Attribute Modifications - Enables modifying existing task entries by appending, prepending, or replacing text within a line.
• Task Filtering - Provides keyword, priority, and project-based filtering to narrow down visible tasks in the terminal.
• Task Prioritization - Allows assigning, changing, or removing priority levels to rank the importance of work.
• Plaintext Todo Managers - Provides a command-line interface specifically for managing task lists stored in the industry-standard todo.txt plaintext format.
• Metadata Tagging - Uses specific character sequences within text lines as markers to denote priorities, projects, and contexts for organization.
• Plain-Text Persistence - Maintains all task data in simple text files to ensure portability and human readability without a database.
• Workflow Organizers - Structures work using project and context markers in a plain text format to maintain focus through efficient grouping.
• Terminal Productivity Tools - Offers a set of shell commands for filtering, editing, and archiving tasks to enhance efficiency within the terminal.
• Formatted Task Summaries - Generates summary reports that count total open and completed tasks.
• Item Archiving - Moves completed items from active lists to separate long-term storage files to keep the workspace clean.
• Task File Organization - Provides utilities to move individual tasks between files or append text to specific files within a task directory.
• CLI Configuration Files - Provides a system for storing persistent default settings and visual preferences via global and local configuration files.
• Direct File Manipulations - Implements task updates by rewriting or appending content directly to the source text files on disk.
• External Script Hooks - Provides mechanisms to execute external shell scripts from a dedicated directory to extend the tool's functionality.
• CLI Configuration - Allows setting global or local preferences for filenames, defaults, and shell completion via a configuration file.
• Marker Extractions - Lists all unique project and context markers found across the current set of tasks for quick retrieval.
• Line-Based Record Processing - Treats each line in a text file as a discrete task entity for editing and filtering operations.
• Extensible Automation Actions - Supports extending functionality by executing shell scripts for recursive calls and shared variable management.
• Terminal Note Tools - Simple shell script for managing task lists in plain text.

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