[Vimoutliner] conky, todos

[Scott Scriven]

So, I've been keeping some TODO items in VO.  And I recently
discovered conky, a system monitor similar to gkrellm or
superkaramba.

I tried putting these together, and found it works pretty well.
I have a script generate a plain text file every minute or so
based on my todo.otl, and conky then updates the copy displayed
as part of my wallpaper.

It's a really simple, almost trivial script, but I like the
results...

  #!/bin/sh
  while true ; do
    grep '[_]' $HOME/todo.otl \
      | perl -ne 's/\t/  /g; s/\[_\]/-/; s/- (\d\d+)%/+ \1%/; print if (/<--/) or (not /^    /);' \
      > $HOME/.todo.conky
    sleep 60
  done

The script converts tabs to two spaces, replaces "[_]"'s with
"-"'s or "+"'s depending on the completion percentage, filters
out finished and non-checkbox items, and filters out everything
deeper than two levels (unless it has a "<--" in it, marking it
as important).

So, as I update my todo list, the summarized version on my
desktop updates automatically, hiding completed tasks and
details.


-- Scott