edavis10 / sinatra_todo

Simple Sinatra app to list todos from Emacs with some organization.

Sinatra Todo¶ ↑

Sinatra Todo is a web frontend to Billy Lamberta’s todo-list-mode. It lets you easily group tasks by priority or tags.

Setup¶ ↑

1. You will need a text file formatted in the format for todo-list-mode (See below)

2. Clone this repository: git://github.com/edavis10/sinatra_todo.git

3. Start the application by using rackup: ‘rackup path/to/your/todo/list.txt`

4. Browse to localhost:9292

5. Login with the user account: admin/todos

6. Bask in the glory of a webified todo list

Hacking¶ ↑

Changing the port it runs on¶ ↑

Use the ‘-p ####’ option with rackup. I like to use port 4567 because that’s Sinatra’s standard port.

Changing the account username and password¶ ↑

The account is hardcoded at the moment just to keep prying eyes out. If you want to use a different account (or remove it altogether), edit the ‘sinatra_todo.rb’ file.

Changing the path to the todo file¶ ↑

Sinatra Todo checks for a todo file in three places:

1. The environment variables TODO_FILE (e.g. ‘TODO_FILE=here/todo.txt rackup`)

2. The second argument to rackup (e.g. ‘rackup my/todo.txt`)

3. A hardcoded string, to my todo file at the moment.

todo-list format¶ ↑

The todo-list format is very simple:

• First character is a number or letter, which I use for the priority (e.g. 1, 2)

• A space

• Bunch of text for the task

• (optional) the task text can have hashtag style comments which are converted into tags (e.g. #ruby, #home)