andrewrosss / today

today

A small script (today) to create a rolling todo list.

The command will copy the yesterday's todo list file into today's todo list file, letting you pick up fom where you left off from the last todo-list you had.

Taken from this hackernews comment. From the HN comment:

... today basically opens ${TODO_HOME}/$YYYY_MM_DD-todo.txt, but it'll start you off with a copy of the most recent (previous) file.

This lets me have "durable" files (I can grep for pretty much anything and get a date-specific hit for it, similar to doing a git log -S), and also lets me declare "task-bankruptcy" without any worry (I can always "rewind" to any particular point in time).

Installation

1. Copy the three files (today, previous, report) somewhere on your machine — make sure they're on your $PATH.

2. In all 3 files replace:

   • SCRIPT_DIR with the directory that you copied the scripts into.
   • TODO_HOME with the directory that you want the todo files to be written.

   For example, these are the settings on my machine:

   SCRIPT_DIR="$HOME/.local/bin"
   TODO_HOME="$HOME/Documents/sandbox/todo"

Usage

$ today  # generates a new todo file for today
/Users/andrewrosss/Documents/sandbox/todo/todo-2024-02-23-todo.md

Or open the new file in your favourite code editor:

$ code -n $(today) # open today's todo file in vscode