Ryan Bates’ TODO List Textmate bundle

After wracking my brains to try and remember a random website where I’d watched a video about TextMate so that I could find the To-do List bundle he mentioned, it turns out a simple search solved my problem. The wonderful GetBundles for TextMate returned what I was after, Ryan Bates’ todo-list.tmbundle.

It’s pretty simple to use:

• A project is defined by a regular old line of text
• All tasks start with a character followed by a space
  • A regular task starts with a hyphen “-“
  • A completed task starts with a “x“
  • An important task starts with a “!“
  • Etc…

Ryan himself says that it’s just a simple way of managing what you need to do for a given project.

Would be great for a new year’s resolution, some yardwork, or just about any old thing.

(For a piece of software that manages this in a very Mac OS X way, try Hog Bay Software’s TaskPaper. Much more accessible, very nice to use, and inexpensive. I highly recommend it if you don’t have access to TextMate.)