Michel is your friendly mate that helps you managing your todo list. It can push/pull flat text files to google tasks.

Michel keeps it stupid simple. It only has two commands:

michel pull

which prints the default todo list on the standard output

michel push <TODO.txt>

which replaces the default todo list with the content of TODO.txt

Michel aims at being simple: it does not handle notes. It does not act on individual tasks. It does not handle status. (All complete tasks will be cleared as a consequence)

One line is one task. Indented lines are subtasks of the "parent" line. Lines ending with an indent,exclimation point, and date are assigned a due date e.g. "\t!2011-11-10T13:30:00.000Z"

Here is how michel can be used. A crontask pulls every 15 minutes the default TODO list, and another one displays a notification during 10 seconds every hour (requires notify-send).

*/15 * * * * michel pull > /tmp/TODO && mv /tmp/TODO ~/.TODO
* * * * * DISPLAY=":0.0" notify-send -t 10000 TODO "$(cat ~/.TODO)"

After you modify your TODO list, don't forget to push it!

michel push .TODO

install python-xdg, then run

easy_install michel

or

pip install michel

• License: Public Domain
• Original author: Christophe-Marie Duquesne (blog post)

As usual, patches are welcome.