Effitask

Effitask is a graphical task manager, based on the todo.txt format.

Supported toto.txt addons:

• due
• flag
• future
• note
• schedule

Hidden features

I tried to develop a clear interface without surprises, but you can easily miss some feature:

• Double click on a feature, everywhere, open the edit panel;
• You can create sub-projects (or sub-contexts) by adding a backslash. For example, the project +work\admin\automation create this arborescence:

work
└── admin
    └── automation

• Double click on a project/context select all there sub-projects/contexts, therefore show their tasks;
• The project/context tooltip (keep your mouse pointer on the name) display done tasks and total tasks number, including sub-projects/contexts (also showed as progress bar);
• Press enter in the "subject" input in the edit panel validate modification.

Install

If you use Arch Linux, effitask is available in AUR.

Manually

Compiling effitask requires rust. I recommend to use rustup.

You also need gtk+ 3.0 on your system. Depending of your distribution, run:

apt install libgtk-3-dev # debian
pacman -S gtk3 # archlinux
dnf install gtk3 gtk3-devel #fedora

git clone https://github.com/sanpii/effitask
cd effitask
make
sudo make install

Launch

This program is designed to be used as todo.sh add-on. Install it as others add-ons: https://github.com/todotxt/todo.txt-cli/wiki/Creating-and-Installing-Add-ons.

mkdir ~/.todo.actions.d
ln -s /usr/bin/effitask ~/.todo.actions.d/et
todo.sh et

You can use it as standalone program by defining some environment variables:

export TODO_DIR="$HOME/.local/opt/share/todo"
export TODO_FILE="$TODO_DIR/todo.txt"
export DONE_FILE="$TODO_DIR/done.txt"

/usr/bin/effitask

Configuration

As you can see above, effitask reuse todo.txt environment variables for configuration.

• TODO_DIR: your todo.txt directory
• TODO_FILE: your todo.txt location
• DONE_FILE: your done.txt location
• TODO_NOTES_DIR: directory for notes, $TODO_DIR/notes by default
• TODO_NOTE_EXT: extension for note files, .txt by default
• TODO_NOTE_TAG: tag name to add to task description, note by default