I started playing with devtodo again last night, seeing how it might be integrated into my workflow alongside Remind and displayed with GeekTool. Everything went well enough, except that I couldn’t for the life of me get GeekTool to see /sw/bin/devtodo.

GeekTool wasn’t catching my $PATH, I eventually determined, and was using its own values — which couldn’t be set manually as far as I could find out after playing with dotfiles and digging around in the PreferencePane bundle. I’ll probably return to that particular investigation in the future, but for the time being I dropped back and reconsidered what I wanted to achieve.

I’m experimenting again with a plaintext ~/todo file, coding todos with a * or x at the beginning of each line (which I’ve done before), then making it a little smarter by doing a grep with GeekTool:

grep ^[0-9*] /Users/rdaeley/todo

which displays only the * lines (still open items), ignoring the x completed ones. It also displays any line that starts with a number (0-9). This lets me put in some divider lines by day, as I break down the week as necessary, e.g. 12/08 Thu, 12/09 Fri, 12/10 Sat.

If this works out well, I’ll write it up more in full.