[Vimoutliner] VO-based todo manager?

[Steve Litt]

Hi Scott,

Is your tool capable of traversing interoutline links?

SteveT

On Saturday 19 April 2008 19:20, Scott Scriven wrote:
> I've been making a tool for my own use over the past few days,
> and I wonder if anyone else has any interest in it.
>
> I have a lot of "todo.otl" files laying around, on multiple
> servers, all over the filesystem.  I tend to keep one for each
> project, each machine, and each major category of tasks.  This is
> good for individual projects, but useless if I want an overview
> of everything I need to do.  There are just too many lists, and
> too many tasks.
>
> So, I've made a tool to help.  It does the following:
>
>   - Collect all task hierarchies into a single, flat list.
>
>   - Sort / filter the list, to put the most important items
>     first.
>
>   - Provide a relatively quick interface for managing tasks.
>
> As for sorting, prioritizing, and filtering tasks, it does a few
> useful things:
>
>   - Handle recurring events.  They bubble up the list as the due
>     date approaches, then go away (for a while) when completed.
>     (dates can be fixed or floating)
>
>   - Provide a "snooze button".  This makes a task (or an entire
>     tree) just go away for a while.  It lets you say "don't bug
>     me about this until later".
>
> The concept is similar to pyGTD (if anyone has heard of that),
> except better.  I tried pyGTD for about 6 months, and it just
> took too much time to maintain lists.  The system was too klunky
> and inflexible, so eventually gave up on it.
>
> It's not "done" yet, but I've got the program to a useful state.
> I get a prioritized list of all my tasks, and can go through them
> fairly quickly.  I just press "x" to mark a task as finished, or
> I snooze the item ("z2w" would snooze for 2 weeks, for example).
> Either way, it disappears from the list so I can focus on the
> next item.
>
> It does a bunch of other things too, and there are a lot of
> details I'm leaving out, but that's the gist of it.
>
>
> -- Scott
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