api-playground VS todo.txt-cli

GitLab team member here.

Maybe you can re-use the script I shared in this comment [0] to query the GitLab REST API to generate an index. I'm a fan of using the API programmatically, and tend to avoid git checkout/grep/etc. inside CI/CD pipelines (works too, everyone is free to choose their way).

Yet again, I love API challenges, so I've created a new script which parses a defined markdown footer for Tags and Due date, and generates an ordered index by due date. I did not know which format you are using, so I made up my own, see the MR description [1] and docs [2].

The script lives in [3] and is a mix of fetching files, parsing content with regex, and generating the index + creating a commit to upload automatically.

A demo overview is shown in [4] with the generated index.md, ordered by due date and linking the files by parsed heading title, file paths, and tags.

Hope it helps, feel free to repurpose, or ping me for questions on the GitLab community forum [5]. My Python code is a little rusty, I am slowly adopting all the 3.x design patterns after many years with 2.x.

I might follow your idea with notes and custom footer parsing. That's a really nifty idea, and helps solve my own chaos :-)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32155848

[1] https://gitlab.com/dnsmichi/api-playground/-/merge_requests/...

[2] https://gitlab.com/dnsmichi/api-playground/-/tree/main/pytho...

[3] https://gitlab.com/dnsmichi/api-playground/-/tree/main/pytho...

[4] https://gitlab.com/dnsmichi/api-playground/-/tree/main/demo/...

[5] https://forum.gitlab.com/u/dnsmichi/summary

FSNotes for macOS and iOS is one I used for a little while.

https://fsnot.es/

todo.txt is another thing that comes to mind.

http://todotxt.org/

And of course pretty much all of *nix.

Since at least 2012 I've also been using a text file format from http://todotxt.org/ and more recently I wrote a program that takes a crontab-like list to pre-generate entries on a daily, by-day-name (every Sunday for example), and I also pull in a list of holidays from gov.uk, so they are also populated.

[^1]: (https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview)

It's a web app implementing the todo.txt format (see http://todotxt.org/). It's an exercise to learn frontend currently, I doubt I could successfully monetize it. Would appreciate any feedback!

That format is really similar to todo.txt format, worth taking a look at http://todotxt.org/ (which in turn has application links).

For todo and schedule I use todo.txt (http://todotxt.org/) a plain file managed by scripts which build agenda and plumber to keep track of unique keys.

The ToDo.Txt format makes it easy to use across devices/software, but this is really limited to ToDos.

Here’s the todo.sh features for those interested. There are several addons for it as well: https://github.com/todotxt/todo.txt-cli

Good idea, something similar to todotxt.org. But no 1) iPhone app 2) you need to sigh up and keep your notes at developers servers 3) subscriptions?! come on!

There are a couple different routes you can go down. If your goal is to learn CLI stuff, it's hard to beat using shell-scripting for a simple app like a todo manager. Storing them in a plain-text file, a little sed/grep/awk and you're well on your way. For inspiration & hints, you might check out https://todotxt.org However, you can rapidly hit performance issues and limitations on available tooling if you stick to just POSIX tools.