Task management for command line lovers

What's birdseye.py?

birdseye.py is a Python script which reports the status of your pending and completed tasks in todo.txt and done.txt. See the original article about birdseye.py, Report your life in .txt at Lifehacker.com.

Download birdseye.py

Download the latest version of birdseye.py. Remove the .txt extension from the file.

Usage

$ birdseye.py /mystuff/todo.txt /mystuff/done.txt

Sample Output

HTML Summarizer #

Mailing list member Charlie Groves' HTML Summarizer produces pretty graphs based on todo.txt input. Try the demo, or download and run locally.

Charlie explains how:

curl -o todosummary-r19.tar http://sevorg.org/todosummary/todosummary-r19.tar
tar xf todosummary-r19.tar
cd todosummary-r19
python todo/html.py

And open the produced todo.html in your browser.

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.