Todo.txt is a Text-based Task Manager. It let you track your tasks and projects in a plain text file, todo.txt. A todo.txt is software and operating system agnostic; it’s searchable, portable, lightweight and easily manipulated.
I am using windows and I want to use it. But the wiki page only describe it can be installed on windows but doesn’t describe detail enough. Here is the step I take to install.
- Install cygwin in
d:\cygwin\ - Download ToDo.txt
- Extract the 2 files into the
d:\cygwin\home\user_name\ - Create .todo folder under
d:\cygwin\home\(resulting path will bed:\cygwin\home\user_name\.todo\) - Change one line in todo.cfg file; remove the preceding # from
#export TODO_DIR ="c:/Documents and Settings/gina/My Documents"and chage to the folder where I want to keep your data resultingexport TODO_DIR="D:/(todo)"and save - Move the todo.cfg to
d:\cygwin\home\.todo\user_name\(resulting path will bed:\cygwin\home\user_name\.todo\todo.cfg) - Rename the todo.cfg to config (no extension) (resulting path will be
d:\cygwin\home\user_name\.todo\config) - Run ‘Cygwin Bash Shell’
- Run by typing
todo.sh - Run
alias t=todo.shso that I can run with less typing (I now can typetinstead oftodo.sh
If you can’t run with todo.sh or want alias permanent try the arandomthinker’s tip
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Thank you for this!!
Nice tip. But small correction: In step 9, run “~/todo.sh” instead of todo.sh.
Also the alias goes off if you restart the cygwin terminal.
To make it permanent, add “alias t=~/todo.sh” line at the end of the .bash_profile file present in the d:\cygwin\home\user_name\ ( or whatever equivalent) folder.