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todo — A simple, standards-based, cli todo manager. More information: <https://todoman.readthedocs.io/en/st

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Problem

How to use the todo command: A simple, standards-based, cli todo manager. More information: <https://todoman.readthedocs.io/en/stable/man.html>.

Solution

todo — A simple, standards-based, cli todo manager. More information: <https://todoman.readthedocs.io/en/stable/man.html>.

List startable tasks:

todo list --startable

Add a new task to the work list:

todo new {{thing_to_do}} {{[-l|--list]}} {{work}}

Add a location to a task with a given ID:

todo edit --location {{location_name}} {{task_id}}

Show details about a task:

todo show {{task_id}}

Mark tasks with the specified IDs as completed:

todo done {{task_id1 task_id2 ...}}

Delete a task:

todo delete {{task_id}}

Delete done tasks and reset the IDs of the remaining tasks:

todo flush

Code Snippets

List startable tasks

todo list --startable

Add a new task to the work list

todo new {{thing_to_do}} {{[-l|--list]}} {{work}}

Add a location to a task with a given ID

todo edit --location {{location_name}} {{task_id}}

Show details about a task

todo show {{task_id}}

Mark tasks with the specified IDs as completed

todo done {{task_id1 task_id2 ...}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/todo

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