Keep your project-related tasks where they belong – with your notes on the project! taskfinder, a terminal user interface (TUI), will extract and display them. It hooks into your default terminal-based editor for editing.
This app is meant to be an aid in a task management system where tasks are located within plain text files. Tasks are identified and extracted from files by the following criteria:
- the term “TODO” (in caps) must be in the text of the file
- excluding whitespace, a line in a file starting with [ ] or [] identifies an incomplete task
- excluding whitespace, a line in a file starting with [X] or [x] is a completed task
- excluding whitespace, a line in a file starting with [/] is a partially completed task
- this also works with markdown lists, so, excluding whitespace, lines starting with – [ ], – [], – [X], – [x], – [/] are recognized as tasks.
A “task set” is a group of tasks. All tasks following a line containing “TODO” will be in a task set labeled as the full text of that line. Another line containing “TODO” within a file will end one task set and start another.
By default, files are defined as .md and .txt files in a folder named “taskfinder” in your home directory (it will be created if it doesn’t exist). However, both the directory and the extensions are configurable. Upon first run, this program will create a configuration file at $HOME/.config/taskfinder/config.toml. You can either edit that file or use the configuration mode (x) to change the defaults. Also configurable are:
- how many days constitutes a file being stale
- whether to show completed tasks in Files mode by default
- the text in a file that indicates a priority level (“priority markers”)
- the location of the evergreen file
- the mode to start the app in (defaults to Files)
- whether the due date for overdue tasks should blink in Files mode
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: codeberg.org/kdwarn/taskfinder
Support:
Developer: Kris Warner
License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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