Plain-Text productivity. Create a new todo list file each day based on what was left in yesterday's file.

The included lib/daily.mjs node script will copy the contents of the most recent YYYY-MM-DD.taskpaper file (from the parent directory by default) into a new file with today's date.

Here's my template taskpaper file.

Errands:

Today's Goal:

#######################################
FOCUS:

  Team:
    ✔ prep for 1:1 @done (2022-11-17)

  Architecture:

  Research:
    - can we install do a thing

#######################################
INBOXES:

  Team:

  Architecture:

  Research:

#######################################
# JOURNAL
#######################################

I based my template on this tweet.

When the text is copied from the previous file, we remove any "done" tasks (where the line starts with ✔ or - [x]). Also we trim off the contents of the # JOURNAL section so it's fresh each day.

I use SublimeText with the package PlainTasks to manage my todo lists.

In VSCode you can use the extension Todo+ to accomplish most of the same things.

npm install
npm run build

npm start

or

node lib/daily.mjs

Note: You can use tea to easily run this with the correct version of node installed in it's env.

$ sh <(curl tea.xyz) .