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Comment #1 posted on 2026-01-17 03:42:49 by brian-in-ohio

Welcome

Great show, I'll have to try it out.

Comment #2 posted on 2026-01-24 00:34:58 by candycanearter07

good first show!

i think this is a really good first show and the way you covered it was pretty cool. i use taskwarrior for mine, which i covered in another episode

Comment #3 posted on 2026-01-31 21:13:41 by Jim DeVore

Updates - too soon!

This system has been chugging along for years. A few days ago the Simpletask app on my phone stopped syncing to Dropbox. Simpletask is no longer in development. Simpletask still worked with the local file, so I stopped using Dropbox and I'm now using Synchthing to sync while I'm at home. No access while off the home network, so this may be another episode once I figure that out.

Comment #4 posted on 2026-02-07 02:48:34 by Gumnos

Fun with todo.txt and transitioning to other plain-text TODO management

Hey, great episode.

One trick I learned is that I symlink my `todo.txt` file to my `~/.plan`

$ ln -s path/to/todo.txt ~/.plan

and because I also run `fingerd(8)` on my VPS, that lets me

$ finger gumnos@myvps.example.invalid

from any machine that supports `finger(1)` to get my todo list.

That said, within the last year, the incredible CLI calendaring tool `remind(1)` added todo functionality, so I've migrated most of my todo tasks to the `remind` format. That gives me a *lot* better control over scheduling repeating events/todos. The only downside: it's just not quite as `finger`-able :-)

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