TODO list script

A script that processes your TODO.txt file and parses any time estimates mentioned in it.

The script takes weekends and holidays into account.

Common important words (such as "asap", "soon", etc.) are highlighted and capitalized.

Installation

Simply install the Node modules required by package.json:

npm install

Usage

Step 1: create a TODO.txt

The TODO.txt file can have any text inside it. The only thing that the script cares about is that you add time estimates to your tasks inside square brackets. For example:

- presentation asap [2 h]
  - preparation
  - generate a PDF and a PPTX and send them to the clients
- do the thing that you promised yesterday!!! [1.5 h]
- foo bar
- big project: stage 1 [50 days]
- big project: stage 2 (needs to be done before july) [20 days]

To mark your vacations, simply add them as tasks:

...
- big project: stage 1 [50 days]
- SUMMER VACATION [20 days]
- big project: stage 2 (needs to be done before july) [20 days]
...

Step 2: run the script

chmod +x todo
./todo /path/to/TODO.txt

That will print this:

######################## TODO list (4 tasks: 423.5 hours, 71 days) ########################

- presentation ASAP [0.3 days]
- do the thing that you promised yesterday!!! [0.3 days]
- big project: stage 1 [50 days]

### 2021-04-02: [Holiday: Pitkäperjantai]

### 2021-04-04: [Holiday: Pääsiäispäivä]

### 2021-04-05: [Holiday: 2. pääsiäispäivä]

### 2021-04-07
- big project: stage 1 [finish]
- big project: stage 2 (needs to DONE BEFORE july) [20 days]

### 2021-05-01: [Holiday: Vappu]

### 2021-05-05
- big project: stage 2 (needs to DONE BEFORE july) [finish]

The script has these options:

# ANSI color output
./todo --color /path/to/TODO.txt

# HTML output
./todo --html /path/to/TODO.txt

# Slack mrkdwn output (for copy-pasting to Slack)
./todo --slack /path/to/TODO.txt

.bash_aliases

It is recommended that you add lines like this in your .bash_aliases file:

alias todo='node /home/you/git/todo-list/todo --color /home/you/TODO.txt | less -r'
alias todoraw='node /home/you/git/todo-list/todo /home/you/TODO.txt'
alias todohtml='todoraw --html /tmp/todo-work.html && google-chrome /tmp/todo-work.html'
alias todoslack='todoraw --slack'

Now you can run todo in the terminal and print a colored, scrollable TODO list easily whenever you need it.