So, instead of working today, I stumbled upon Todo.txt, which is yet another To-Do-organizing system. It is based on plaintext though, so I was sold. I remember reading in this Library of Babel about a man who asked top hackers how they organize themselves. Most of the hackers responsed “plain text files”.
So I adopted this method. My problem is I’m sure I have at least 5 To-Dos.txt spread around the computers and storage systems (various remote filesystems, my GMail Drafts folder) I use. So, not well organized at all.
Todo.txt has its own concept, where each line of To-Do can have attributes (or are they tags? 
) which makes it easy to filter accoriding to attributes. You can add, list and delete items using Bash commands, but I guess because the idea is simplification of life, someone made a bash script that makes it easy to manipulate the list.
And then someone got even more clever and made a Jabber-bot so you can play around with your ToDo’s over the internet. I’ve seen Jabber used by a server elsewhere once (an automatic build system that IMs you the build-status afterwards) and I loved the idea, so I decided to install it on my server.
It was trivial enough, and now there’s a new buddy in my Gaim buddy-list, the TodoBot.
Now I just have to feed it with data. And now that I have the basics, I’m wondering what other things I can do with the bot. Basically it just forwards everything I tell it to a bash script. It would be trivial to either modify the script, or modify the bot so it calls another script, e.g. to etherwake (that’s not a verb!) my desktop. Could one make a bot that accepts files and puts them online? One probably could.
I’m intrigued…
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