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Linux.com: Task Management Made Simple with todo.txt and Tux ToDo

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Scott Nesbitt
Oct 9, 2006

“Keeping track of your to-do items and tasks should be simple,
but often the software that people use for those purposes is
anything but. Many such applications are also calendars, reminders,
appointment managers, and more — in other words, overkill. By
contrast, todo.txt and Tux ToDo try to keep it simple. They take
different approaches–one’s a command-line tool and the other is
graphical–but do the same thing: make managing your many tasks
simpler.

“In the computing world, there are few things simpler than a
text file, and todo.txt, developed by Web developer and writer Gina
Trapani, leverages that fact nicely…”

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