todo.pl (or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the command line) by Jesse Vincent on 2006-09-25 17:00:00 (permalink)

I've got a dirty little secret. I don't like using a web browser that much.  For much of my life, I've just made my todo lists in a text editor.  (I knew Hiveminder was ready for us to release when I started voluntarily using it on a day to day basis, rather than just keeping a text file open in a window.)

A few summers ago at O'Reilly's Emerging Technologies Conference, Danny O'Brien gave a session called Life Hacks: Tech Secrets of Overprolific Alpha Geeks. One of the things that it seemed all the super-productive uber-hackers did was to track their todo lists in simple text files.  Since long before we launched, Hiveminder's "braindump" and "edit as textfile" features have made it pretty easy for me to work as if I'm still living in a textfile.

This spring, Gina Trapani, the editor of lifehacker.com, launched todotxt.com, a site dedicated to command line tools and a simple text format to track your todo list.  One of the "killer apps" for todo.txt lovers has been todo.sh, a simple command line program for managing your todo list.  When we saw it, we fell in love.

We're proud to present the first testing version of todo.pl, a todo.sh compatible hiveminder client.

You can download it at: http://hiveminder.com/static/tools/cli/todo.pl