[Tfug] TODO list manager

[Matt Jacob]

Have you looked at Todo.txt? If you're willing to use Dropbox for the
syncing, it might be exactly what you're looking for. 

http://todotxt.com

Matt

On Sun, Mar 2, 2014, at 2:48, John Gruenenfelder wrote:
> Hello once more,
> 
> One of the key daily life management utilities I am currently missing is
> a
> good Todo list manager.  For reference, I include in this list things
> like
> email, a calendar, y so forth.
> 
> My primary requirements are cross-platform, relative ease of use, and a
> unified data set.
> 
> For example, I get my email via IMAP which allows me to access a single
> unified store of email from most anyplace that has Net access.  At home I
> use
> Mutt, on one of the machines that gets mail locally I also use Mutt, and
> from
> my phone I use K9 email and access via IMAP.  Different apps, but the
> email
> store is unified.
> 
> For a calendar that I can keep my appointments in (my needs are fairly
> basic),
> I use Google's calendar (which I think uses the ical format or similar). 
> I
> can access the calendar via the website.  From my phone there are
> numerous
> apps (besides the default Google app) that support Google Calendar.  From
> home, I usually use the website, but I can also have the drop-down Gnome
> Shell
> calendar display the same data.
> 
> 
> But, for Todo data, I still don't have all the parts.  At least, I am as
> yet
> unaware of the needed toolchain.  I know Google has some sort of Todo
> management utility on the web, but I don't know how widespread support
> for it
> is outside the Google-sphere.  Again, my needs are relatively simple, I
> just
> need a way to add tasks under varying categories.  The ability to add a
> more
> extensive description in addition to the task title would be a plus.
> 
> At home, I use the console tool "w2do" (available in the Debian archive),
> but
> its DB format is super simple and non-networked, so synchronization of
> the
> data must be done manually.  It's also just a console app so there's no
> net/website/phone access.
> 
> Has anybody else required such a tool and found a suitable program?  I've
> read
> (*very* briefly) that EMACS org-mode can perform todo list management (in
> addition to a whole lot else) and I know there's an Android app that
> allows
> some form of Net access to the org-mode data.  Maybe this will do what I
> need?
> I'll need to check further.
> 
> 
> I don't see this as a super complex task (clearly, far simpler than email
> or
> calendaring), so I'm considering implementing the stack if I can't find
> what I
> need.  My solution would be something like:
>   * A console app with the data stored in a MySQL/SQLite database
>   * A simple PHP (or maybe Ruby) website to allow universal access to the
>   data
>   * A simple native Android app, probably with a homescreen widget, to
>   display
>     the current todo tasks
> 
> If I used Ruby over PHP then I'd need to learn Ruby, something I want to
> do,
> but it would add a time overhead to the project.  Also, even though the
> app
> would be relatively simple, I don't yet know how to write for Android
> (PalmOS,
> no problem, but not much call for that these days...).  Again, though,
> learning Android programming is high on my todo list and this might be a
> suitably simple program to start with.
> 
> Any ideas, TFUG?
> 
> 
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