Using Markdown and git to store your todo list and daily journal

Why markdown

No distractions

Simple syntax

Plain text, Human readable.

Inline HTML

Easy conversion to other formats

Why git

Any SCM probably OK

Github and Gitlab render markdown.

The todo page

# TODO

### Can do now

* Bullet 1

* Bullet 2

### Near term

1. Numbered 1

1. Numbered 2

### Long term

The journal script

DAILYFILE="/Users/norrist/Projects/todo/daily/$(/bin/date +%F).md"

DAILYPATH="/Users/norrist/Projects/todo/daily/"

LOCKFILE="/Users/norrist/Projects/todo/daily/LOCK"

TODOFILE="/Users/norrist/Projects/todo/todo.md"

if [ -f $LOCKFILE ]

then

echo "$LOCKFILE PRESENT - ABORTING"

read -n1 -p "Remove and Continue? [y,n]" doit

case $doit in

y|Y) echo "Continuing with $LOCKFILE PRESENT" ;;

*) exit 1 ;;

esac

else

echo "NO LOKCFILE"

touch $LOCKFILE

fi

if [ -f $DAILYFILE ]

then

echo "$DAILYFILE exists"

else

echo >> $DAILYFILE

echo "-----">> $DAILYFILE

echo "# $(/bin/date +%F)" >> $DAILYFILE

echo >> $DAILYFILE

echo "### Projects" >> $DAILYFILE

echo >> $DAILYFILE

echo "### Tickets" >> $DAILYFILE

echo >> $DAILYFILE

echo "### Walkups" >> $DAILYFILE

fi

/usr/local/bin/edit -w --new-window $DAILYFILE

/opt/local/bin/aspell -c $DAILYFILE

/opt/local/bin/aspell -c $TODOFILE

rm $LOCKFILE

rm $DAILYPATH/README.md

cat $TODOFILE >> $DAILYPATH/README.md

for f in $(ls -r $DAILYPATH/2*md)

do cat $f >> $DAILYPATH/README.md

echo >>$DAILYPATH/README.md

done

cd /Users/norrist/Projects/todo; /usr/bin/git add . && /usr/bin/git commit -m "$(date)" && /usr/bin/git push origin master

Daily file template

# 2016-08-02

-----

### Projects

### Tickets

### Walkups

aspell is awesome