[roberthahn]

Good work! I might just try this out in my next attempt to GTD

I’d like to suggest thinking more deeply about dates. I love that you opted to use the yyyy-mm-dd format and I also think it’s great that you’re making things flexible because life is messy.

The problem I see is this; suppose I’m in a text editor and I want to see my todos ordered by due date. This will help me see what’s coming up.

The advantage of using a yyyy-mm-dd format is that it makes things really easy to sort in reverse lexicographic order. However, with dates coming in at any point in the todo, sorting might be tricky. The week-style date format would also be tricky to sort properly.

Granted, this is an option for tools to solve! But if the primary tool is a text editor, then this might be an area that could use refinement.

Again: love the work you put into this and I also love the ergonomics! Thanks for sharing!

[jotaen]

You can have lexicographic ordering with [x]it!, as long as you stick to a specific structure, which is:

- Write due dates first

- Pad your priority with dots

- Don’t use line breaks within descriptions

- Don’t use titles

Then it will sort (in that order) by: item status, priority, due date.

    [ ] !!! -> 2022-05-01 Something
    [ ] ..! -> 2022-06-15 Something else
    [x] .!! -> 2022-01-04 More text