An Evil Trend (Remember the Milk (and friends))

Text Remember the Milk (and friends)
So Chris is a big fan of Remember the Milk and I have to agree with him. It’s a fantastic web app. Slick, easy to use, and completely intuitive. I recommend that you use it. Like, now.

My only beef with it (and this is true for web apps in general) is that my data is stored online. I’d like to use it for work-related tasks, but I just don’t feel quite safe handing such data over to them. If only RTM was a native app! But it’s not, so I did some digging around.

I found todo.sh, a shell script to do some basic — relative to RTM — task management. You won’t be able to add due dates, or URLs, or anything beyond contexts and categories to your tasks, but the core is there. Adding a task is something like:
```
$ todo.sh add remember the milk
```
You can prioritize tasks and edit/delete them once you’ve added them. Everything’s stored in a little todo.txt file in your home directory. I just started using it, and though I’m not as impressed as I was with RTM I’d still say this is worth a try for anyone who doesn’t want to throw their data up to the cloud.

(For bonus points: use the todo.py version linked off the downloads page. There are a few bugs, however, that I think I’ll be submitting a patch for soon.)