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

At the first run, you will be prompted an url. Click it, authorize michel. You're done!

The authorization token is stored in $XDG_DATA_HOME/michel/oauth.dat. This is the only information stored.

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

michel pull

Print the default todo list on the standard output

michel push <TODO.txt>

Replace the default todo list with the content of TODO.txt

Michel aims at being simple: it does not handle due dates nor notes.

One line is one task. tab-indented lines (with the real tab character) are subtasks of the "parent" line.

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
0 * * * * 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

If this trick is not working, it is probably because the variable PATH does not contains /usr/local/bin in crontab. You might want to set it manually. See 'man 5 crontab'.

install python-xdg, then run

pip install michel

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

Patches are welcome, as long as they keep the source simple and short.