rem

A simple CLI to-do list program. Create categories, tasks and detailed explanations. Uses SQLite to store the data.

See Usage examples for an overview of the features.

Setup

Installing on Linux

Open a terminal and execute the following commands (simply copy & paste):

git clone git://github.com/haukurpallh/rem.git
mv rem ~/.rem
chmod +x ~/.rem/rem.py
sudo ln -s ~/.rem/rem.py

That's all!

Usage examples

To create a new category (possibly with a task and details), execute rem -a (or rem -a CATEGORY_NAME if you wish to specify the name of the category). You will be prompted for the name of a task and afterwards for details. Neither is necessary. Examples (the "$" sign is just to indicate it's a command, don't type it):

$ rem -a
Enter a descriptive title for the task: test
Enter a detailed description: some description

And:

$ rem -a some_category
Enter a descriptive title for the task: some_title
Enter a detailed description: sleep, some_description

Now, to view the contents of the database we can run rem -l to list all the categories and their tasks or rem -l CATEGORY_NAME to list only a specific category. Examples (one for each of the examples above):

$ rem -l
General
  - Test
    Some description

Some_category
  - Some_title
    Some_description

And:

rem -l general
General
  - Test
    Some description

To remove a the entire database, use the command rem -r and confirm. To remove a single category, use rem -r CATEGORY_NAME. To remove more than one category at once, separate them with a single comma. Examples:

$ rem -r
Permanently remove all data from the database (y/n)? n
$ rem -l
General
  - Test
    Some description

Some_category
  - Some_title
    Some_description

And:

$ rem -r general,some_category
$ rem -l
General

As you can see, the program automatically creates a category called general even though it was just deleted.

For more help, try executing rem -h.

Note: the "merge" (-m, --merge) option is unavailable even though rem -h names it.