Indented subtasks

[Fractal147]

Thought I'd discuss my own variation on todo.txt
I found the @context and +project tags to be a bit slow to work with, annoying when dealing with many small subtasks.
I also didn't use any of the normal clients for sorting, so was free to mess around with line structure.
Being text, I decided on a new rule-if a line appears below another in the input file and has a greater number of indents at the start, it is a subtask.
So you essentially create a tree of tasks and subtasks branching off.

Sorting has to be aware (sorting recursively with the least indented tasks being the most important) but is otherwise the same.
tabtodoview is my implementation of this - it's processor script that takes the input text file and sorts it in a tree aware way into a text file for display.

(C) Example Main task 1
	Example subtask 1a
	(A) Example subtask 1b
		(Z) Example subsubtask 1ba
		(E) Example subsubtask 1bb
	(F) Example subtask 1c
(A) Example main task 2

becomes:

(A) Example main task 2
(C) Example Main task 1
	(A) Example subtask 1b
		(E) Example subsubtask 1bb
		(Z) Example subsubtask 1ba
	(F) Example subtask 1c
	Example subtask 1a

I expect this breaks some paradigms of todo.txt - but hey, this is a discussion.

[clach04]

@Fractal147 you might also be interested in some of the todo.md versions, that use GFM task lists https://github.blog/2014-04-28-task-lists-in-all-markdown-documents/

It's currently more fractured than todo.txt and very few implementations/tools

• https://github.com/todomd/todo.md
• https://github.com/todo-md/todo-md/