rtasks allows you to keep a simple plain text list of recurring tasks. Each task has a scheduled date. If you mark one as done, the scheduled date will change to the next calculated date using a certain pattern defined right after the date.
Use this in your ~/.vimrc:
Plug 'mschwld/rtasks.vim'
After installation, use the .tasks extension to activate the plugin. An example is provided
in the res/ folder.
There are two options:
- patterns starting with
.+will calculate the next date relative to the current date - patterns starting with
++will calculate the next date relative to the scheduled date
In theory, there are tasks where the break between each iteration matters, like a cleaning task, because you want to wait for new dirt to arrive. But there are tasks where waiting is not mandatory, for example when paying the rent. If you pay it twice, you can skip the next iteration.
You can mark a task (a line) as done by pressing <Leader>tt. You can change that in
ftplugin/tasks.vim, line 233.
Each time you mark a task as being done, an entry in a .taskhistory is created. If you
ever wonder when was the last time you did a certain assignment, you can look it up there.
If a date corresponds to today or a past day, it will be highlighted in a red color. Every other date will appear in green color. Detected syntax errors will be highlighted with a red background color.
I failed to find a good solution for coloring past dates. I have to build regular expressions here, so i hard-coded past years. There should be a better way of handling this, or at least this plugin should support a much larger range of past dates without hard-coding them.
Apart from this:
- disable/configure history file
- sorting items