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Plain text TODOs

In January, I wrote about using plain text files for to-do lists instead of larger and more complex project management tools.

I found an example of this in the code repository for st, the simple terminal from suckless.org.

They have a TODO.html file which is a plain text list of todo tasks.

There are a lot of examples on GitHub, too.

Something I like in st's file is this command:

grep -nE 'XXX|TODO' st.c

This finds TODO comments in the st.c file so those can be included.

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