I keep my todo list in a text file. This has numerous advantages like:

• future proof (Can be read in any operating system, yesterday, today and tomorrow)
• can be edited anywhere (phone, server, laptop, paper)
• independent of vendors / companies / databases which may or may not survive.
• fast to open / edit / save / load (online or offline)

Inspired by todotxt.com, I have adopted Gina Trapani's conventions:

• (A), (B), (C), ... encode priority
• @pc, @smart, @t, ... encode context (can it be done over the phone?, on the pc?, etc)
• +finance, +freelancing, ... encodes the project (what larger project is it part of?)
• 2015-10-03, as a creation date
• x , to show the task is done

and added a few of my own:

• [1yr], [2mo], [8w], [4d], [8h], [20mn], to give a time estimate
• due:2015-10-03, for the due date

A text file, however makes it difficult to sort, organize, prioritize and extract statistics. So this web app addresses precisely that. Once you have created a todo.txt and done.txt, you can run this Flask application, and explore your list:

This will let you:

• Sort by Project, Context, Due Date, Time Estimate, etc
• Explore some statistics (like how many 20 minute tasks are outstanding, how many tasks have been completed, etc)

Dependencies:

• python 2.7
• pip

clone repo, create and activate a virtual environment, and install libraries:

git clone git@github.com:alphydan/flask_todo.txt.git
virtualenv virtual-td
source virtual-td/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

run:

python todo.py

No, no, no and no! This software was built as a project to learn Flask, and to be used locally. It has major security flaws and should not be deployed to production yet.

• refactor code (merge filtering functions)
• Expand statistics
• prepare .css for pretty printing
• parse todo.txt list searching for formatting errors. For ex. [10m] instead of [10mo] or [10mn]
• add JS framework to interact from the web app
• Add Dropbox sync functionality