Todo.txt roots
The todo.txt task management method began as a series of posts on Lifehacker.com, a weblog on software and productivity. Its development was made possible by dedicated Lifehacker readers who contributed to the code base via site comments and email.
The original post series, in order of publication are:
- List your life in plain text
April 12, 2006
"Today we're going to go over one method for tracking your todo list, Getting Things Done style, using your favorite text editor and some old-school Unix command line know-how." - Script your life in .txt
April 26, 2006
The seeds of todo.sh was a set of terribly-written short shell scripts. - Report your life in .txt
May 3, 2006
Birdseye.py is born: "There's just one last thing missing: a bird's eye view of all the working projects and contexts you've entered in todo.txt, and your progress on each." - Reader-written todo.txt manager
May 12, 2006
Todo.sh is born: "...my first attempt was half-baked and had more holes than Swiss cheese. Well, with all your generous help, dear readers, the Lifehacker todo manager has grown up to be super-strength and featureful." - Introduction to Cygwin, part I
June 9, 2006
Stepping through Cygwin basics to get our Windows friends todo.txt'ing. - The todo.txt AIM bot
June 23, 2006
Todobot.pl is born: "One of the best reasons for keeping a todo.txt are the unlimited ways you can interact with it: anything and everything can read and parse text files. So as a programming exercise I set out to write an AOL instant messenger bot that updates and views your todo.txt from anywhere, and after only a few hours, my TodoBot was up and running."
Finally, alerting readers to new versions and processing all the questions and modifications email myself got to be too much, so this site was born.
Author
Unless otherwise noted, all the todo.txt scripts published herein are authored by Gina Trapani and licensed under the GNU General Public License.
Scripts and text originally published as an ongoing Todo.txt series at Lifehacker.com. Special thanks to all the Lifehacker readers who contributed to Todo.sh by fixing code, adding features, reporting bugs and making suggestions.
All software comes as is with no warranty. Do back up your todo.txt before you read another word. Questions, support and help is available in the Todo.txt Mailing list.