ctodo

A simple ncurses-based task list manager

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License

Copyright (C) 2012 Niels Sonnich Poulsen (http://apakoh.dk)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Requirements

• ncurses
• A C-compiler like gcc
• cmake (not actually necessary)

Installation

• Run cmake:

  cmake .
  

• Compile:

   make
  

• Install:

   make install
  

Alternatively you could just use gcc to compile the single source file:

gcc -lncurses -o ctodo ctodo.c

Usage

Run from a console using:

ctodo

This will create a todo.txt file in the current directory or open the file if it exists.

Alternatively you can run ctodo using:

ctodo someotherfile.txt

Which will open/create someotherfile.txt in the current directory.

Commands

• Navigation:

  Use UP and DOWN arrows to move between tasks (or J and K).

  PAGE UP moves 5 tasks up and PAGE DOWN moves 5 tasks down.

  HOME moves to the top of the list and END moves to the bottom.

• Managing tasks:

  SPACE and ENTER checks/unchecks the selected task.

  D and DELETE deletes the selected task.

  Press E to edit the description of the selected task.

  Press SHIFT-E to delete the current task description and create a new one.

  Press N or INSERT to create a new task.

• In input-mode:

  Press ENTER to save the string.

  Press CTRL-C or CTRL-D to cancel.

• Managing the task list:

  Press T to edit the title of the task list.

  Press SHIFT-T to delete the current title and create a new one.

  Press S to save the list.

  Press R to reload the list (discard unsaved data).

  Press Q to save the list and quit.