Simple command line task manager with time tracking

• Covey's quadrant - query tasks by important and due soon
• Time tracking - track the time of every task
• CSV storage - you can easily backup or edit as a spreadsheet
• Task lists and tags - task can have one task list and many tags
• Simple and complex views

Installation

Requires Python 2.6

Works on Linux and Mac OS X, should work on Windows too, except the install

0. Download https://github.com/stamat/todo/archive/master.zip

• wget https://github.com/stamat/todo/archive/master.zip

0. Extract and cd to the extracted directory

• unzip mater.zip && cd todo-master

0. sudo ./install.py - installs to ~/.todo and creates a symlink /usr/local/bin/todo
1. todo

Running todo will prompt you to enter the location for task CSV files to be saved. Personal recommendation would be your dropbox folder. This can be changed by editing a configuration file ~/.todo/config.cfg

Usage

Example usage in a form of a little tutorial. To learn how to use todo follow these sample steps

todo -h - displays help

Managing tasks

todo My first task - adds a task titled: My first task

todo My second task @Home +groceries - creates a new task My second task, adds it to Home task list and adds a tag groceries

todo My third task - adds a task titled: My third task

todo --tasklist 1,3 @Work - puts the first and third task to the task list Work

todo --tag 1,3 +cool +super - tag the first and third task with cool and super tags

todo --rmtag 1,3 +super - remove the tag super from the first and third

todo --tasklist 1 - removes the first task from the task list Work

todo -e 1 My first edited task - first task becomes My first edited task all other details are preserved

todo -i 1,3 - sets the first and third task to be important

todo -i 1 - sets the first task to be unimportant

todo -d 3 - sets the first task to be due soon

todo -r 1 - removes the first task, the second task now becomes the first one and the third one becomes the second one

Listing tasks

todo - lists all tasks without clutter, in this case it would show 1 My second task 2 My third task

todo -l @Home - displays all the task from task list Work

todo -l +groceries - displays all the task with the tag groceries

todo -l important soon - displays all the task that are important and due soon

todo -l important - displays all the task that are important

todo -a - displays the task table with details

todo -a @Home - displays the tasks in the task list in form of a table with details

todo --tasklists - list all task list with details

todo --tags - list all tags with details

Time tracking

todo -t 1 - starts the time tracking

Ctrl + C - to end it

Future development

• Default view - set a custom query to be your default view when you type todo
• Time tracking statistics - how many time you spent per day/week/month/year on a single task, single task list, single tag
• Completed tasks archive
• Import CSV - there will be extendable definitions of CSV head to head extension
• Server synchronisation
• Web client
• Desctop and Mobile apps

Why?

• managing your time well makes you successful
• you cant fix what you can't measure
• time is money

I used to think the last one is some capitalist bullshit, but it really means you need to value your time as something you need to live, like you need and love to eat and sleep. If you take into consideration the simple truth LIFE IS TIME SPENT in between birth and death then why wouldn't your time be precious?

This project was heavily influenced by:

Randy Pausch Lecture: Time Management ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTugjssqOT0 )

Stephen Covey's Quadrant ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Things_First_(book) )