HPR4554: How I do todo

Hosted by Jim DeVore on 2026-01-15 00:00:00

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Gumnos says: Fun with todo.txt and transitioning to other plain-text TODO management

RE: hpr4554::2026-01-15 How I do todo by Jim DeVore
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Hey, great episode.

One trick I learned is that I symlink my `todo.txt` file to my `~/.plan`

$ ln -s path/to/todo.txt ~/.plan

and because I also run `fingerd(8)` on my VPS, that lets me

$ finger gumnos@myvps.example.invalid

from any machine that supports `finger(1)` to get my todo list.

That said, within the last year, the incredible CLI calendaring tool `remind(1)` added todo functionality, so I've migrated most of my todo tasks to the `remind` format. That gives me a *lot* better control over scheduling repeating events/todos. The only downside: it's just not quite as `finger`-able :-)

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