todos: Easy-to-use TODOs manager.

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todos is a simple TODO manager. TODO records theirself are described in plain-text file, and todos allows you to show only needed of them. So, todos works as specialized grep utility.


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Dependencies ansi-terminal, base (>=3 && <=5), containers, directory, filepath, Glob, haskell98, mtl, parsec (>=2 && <3), process, regex-pcre, syb, time, utf8-string [details]
License BSD-3-Clause
Author Ilya V. Portnov
Maintainer portnov84@rambler.ru
Category Utils, Desktop
Home page http://gitorious.org/todos
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todos README
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Ilya V. Portnov <portnov84@rambler.ru>

todos is a simple TODO manager. TODO records theirself are described in
plain-text file, and todos allows you to show only needed of them. So, todos
works as specialized `grep' utility.

By default, output format is the same as input; so, you can combine several
`todos' instances into unix pipes. 

If source files are not given in the commandline, file with name "TODO" in
current directory is used. If "-" is given as file name, todos will read
standart input.

todos supports two formats of input files. In first case, file contains TODOS
records and only them. In «alternative» format, source files can contain any
text, but it's ignored; only lines starting with given prefix ("TODO: " by
default) are parsed. So, alternative format enable you to grep TODO records
from any files, for example, program source files.

Following is format of TODO record:

    [spaces]status (dates) [TAGS] title (depends) description

Here [spaces] is optional indent with spaces, «status» — is status of record
(for example, URGENT or DONE; can be any word), «dates» give info about dates
(see below), «TAGS» is a comma-separated list of tags in brackets, «title» is
title of record, «depends» — comma-separated list of depends (titles of other
records) in parenthesis, «description» is description of the record. All fields
except status and title are optional. Description is separated from title with
not less than 2 spaces.

Using different indents one can create sub-records (and, so, trees of records).
Moreover, depends are interpreted in same way as sub-records. So, one can
create not only trees of records, but arbitrary graphs of records (even
cycled). When cycled graphs are used, user should control for rational level of
hierarchy (for example, one can bound height of output tree using -p option).

Dates information is described in parenthesis, as not more than 3 records,
separated with semicolon. Each records has format «date type: date». Date type
can be one of: start, end, deadline. For dates, many formats are supported; for
example, «18 Feb», или «02/18/2010», «2010/02/18» are all valid dates. One can
even use relative dates specification here, such as «in 2 weeks» or «2 days
ago», but there is no point to this: all dates are counted from program start
date.

Next commandline options are supported:

  -1           --only-first         show only first matching entry
  -c           --color              show colored output
  -A[PREFIX]   --prefix[=PREFIX]    use alternate parser: read only lines starting with PREFIX
  -D[FORMAT]   --describe[=FORMAT]  use FORMAT for descriptions
  -p N         --prune=N            limit tree height to N
  -m N         --min-depth=N        show first N levels of tree unconditionally
  -t TAG       --tag=TAG            find items marked with TAG
  -g PATTERN   --grep=PATTERN       find items with PATTERN in name
  -s STRING    --status=STRING      find items with status equal to STRING
  -a           --and                logical AND
  -o           --or                 logical OR
  -n           --not                logical NOT
               --sort=FIELD         specify sorting
  -e[COMMAND]  --exec[=COMMAND]     run COMMAND on each matching entry
  -S DATE      --start-date=DATE    find items with start date bounded with DATE
  -E DATE      --end-date=DATE      find items with end date bounded with DATE
  -d DATE      --deadline=DATE      find items with deadline bounded with DATE
  -h           --help               display this help

Dates in the commandline are specified in any of supported formats. There
relative dates specifications are useful: how about something like «todos
--deadline=yesterday»? ;)

For --describe and --exec options, printf-style format strings should be
specified. Following substitution sequences are supported:

%n :: title of the record
%t :: list of record's tags
%s :: status of the record
%d :: description of the record
%f :: name of file, in which record was found
%l :: number of line in source file

For example, «todos -tBUG -e"vi %f +%l"» command for each record with «BUG» tag
will open vi with corresponding file on corresponding line.

todos can read configuration files: ~/.config/todos («global») and
./.todos.conf («local»). Config files contain command line options, in the same
format as in the commandline. Resulting commandline is composed as: (options in
global config) + (options in local config) + (options in the actual command
line). If there is no one of configs, todos will ignore it.