I cloned the project in VS code but when i am trying to run it in visual studio code terminal like "todo orange banana" it says todo command not found. so help me out how to run it.

Hey there!

I saw a post on r/linux or r/rust some days ago and have been using it since, thank you so much! With the new mac support PR (I think) the TODO file path has been changed from the current directory to the HOME directory (at least on my pc, which in hindsight after looking at the code was the intended behavior all along).

Anyhow, I like to have my TODO's split across multiple categories/projects, which was nicely possible with the "local folder TODO file" behavior. Would it be possible to add something like a flag to point to a file to use as TODO file?

I figured I would open an issue first to talk about the best way to do this (e.g. by a -f flag or having an optional argument before the action that denotes the file).

At line 56 in [fn new] lib.rs, variable contents, whose type is a String, call to_string on itself. Why to_string is needed here. (I remove it, the code still work well).
At line 69 in [fn list] lib.rs, stdout is locked. I assume lock is needed when you have multiple thread, the lock let one thread finish all its print things then let another thread print. Here is only one thread, Is lock necessary? (I also remove it and find the code still work well).

Would be great if this is published to crates.io. It could be publish under the name todo-bin since it's available.

It would be pretty handy to add priority indicators to the app. For instance, we could divide priorities as:

1. Low
2. Normal
3. Urgent

and the color code them so that when list() is called, there's a clear visual distinction between them. A basic idea would be create an enum for the types.

I might do a pull request soon :)

It would be awesome if this could run on macos!

From what I can tell, the current build panics at line 25 of lib.rs if ran on mac.
I tried changing the match statement to include 'macos', but only ran into further errors.

Add an option for defining a different storage location than ~/.todo to declutter the home directory.

However, #20 may supersede this proposal.

Allow a method for organizing todos via f.x. boards similar to Taskbook. This would use @labels to create so called boards which can then be queried with todo list @boardname to only show tasks belonging to the queried board. Calling todo list on its own would list all boards e.g.

@work
- task A
- task B

@personal
- task C
- task D

@projectname
- task E
- task F

I think it would be cool if, when launching the Todo command, it would look for a todo list inside the current folder, without the hustle of having to specify the 'TODO_PATH=' every time.
Then, if the current folder does not have a list in itself, go and search for the home path one.
Another thing would be to add an option (like "home") to skip the lookup of the current folder.

todo version: 2.3.1

Steps to reproduce:

while in /home/username/:

todo add "something"
cd Documents
todo done 1

output:

thread 'main' panicked at 'Couldn't open the todofile: Os { code: 2, kind: NotFound, message: "No such file or directory" }', src/lib.rs:226:18
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace

As far as I understand, todo creates a file in my home directory by default and when called from another directory it cannot access it.
By some weird reason todo list works fine
It seems a little bit weird, since I remember seeing TODO files in other directories.

So, I assume that the creation process is somehow wrong.

If any extra information / logs needed, then please be kind to provide some instructions on getting them.

It would be nice if todo can take tasks from stdin.

Usage
Add tasks
echo banana orange | todo add or cat my_issues.txt | todo add

Mark done tasks start with 'today':
todo raw todo | grep '^today' | todo done

Possibilities would be endless.

Nice tool, btw!

A cool addition would be the possiblity to add a description to a task, to further specify the todo goal.

User can opt into saving their todo in the form of markdown.

Currently

todo saves todos in a TODO file.

Request

Save todo in an opt in markdown file.

Eg.

# TODO

1. Foo
2. Bar

This allows cross device sync, eg with nextcloud. Ease of bulk editing using text editors.
This can benifit users already using markdown for mangaing their todo.

A config file can be saved at $HOME with destination file/folder preferences.

Ok so I'm not sure if this is me just being dumb but the numbering seems to be wrong?
I added 3 todos and instead of them being numbered 1 2 3 they were numbered 1 3 5