Thoughts from the abyss

I ran across a very cool, very lightweight ToDo application called Tux ToDo from the daily Newsforge e-mail. I tested it out under my Gnome session and it’s really beyond simple. I currently keep a ToDo list on a personal wiki in my laptop, but I think I just found something new to use. As root do the following:

1. Download it from the link above.
2. tar -xzvf /tmp/tux_todo.tar.gz
3. cp /tmp/tux_todo/tux_todo /usr/local/bin

Of course if you don’t want to put it in /usr/local/bin, then you can create a diretory in your home dir to put things. That’s it, now as a normal user you can run the tux_todo command either from the command line, or create a little launcher icon on your desktop. After you run it once, create some things to do, and create some categories, it creates two files in your home directory. One is cat.db (holds the category data) and the other tux_todo.db (holds the ToDo data). It looks like this: