I’ve used sleek as my primary todo.txt UI for a while now, and I’m really happy with it. If you are interested in a simple, but useful way to put together a todo list in plaintext, the todo.txt spec is a great way to handle it, and sleek is by far the nicest GUI I’ve found.

About a week ago, I ran into a minor annoyance with an edge use-case that I have, and I wrote about it in the sleek github discussion page. Within 4 days, the maintainer of the project had a new build ready that fixed my issue. Nobody else said they needed it, but they took the time to add the feature I requested and now my workflow is that much easier.

I know not every project is like this, or can be like this, but there’s no way that something like this would get added at anywhere near this pace in proprietary software. I, for one, am super grateful that software like this and the people that maintain it exist. Thank you.

Please check out sleek!

sleek is an open-source (FOSS) todo manager based on the todo.txt syntax. It’s available for Windows, MacOS and Linux

  • thejevansOP
    4·
    1 year ago

    Not any good standalone ones. What I use (and this was to do with my edge use-case, actually) is Obsidian with a todo.txt plugin. It’s not as nice as sleek, so I still use sleek on my desktop, but it’s more than good enough to use on my phone to glance at my todo.txt, check things off, make small edits, or add new items in a pinch. It’s also how I share my todo.txt with my partner.

    The thing I needed fixed was that in Obsidian, the plugin requires files with the extension todotxt, for example default.todotxt, and sleek currently doesn’t allow for loading files with arbitrary extensions. The new build the maintainer put together allows that, and it will be in the new version that is currently being worked on.

    • klangcola@reddthat.com
      3·
      1 year ago

      Cool, Obsidian didn’t even cross my mind, thanks for the suggestion.

      For mobile, just reading and ticking of existing items covers the main use cases for me. And sometimes adding new items too. That’s soo cool that the Sleek Dev added support for arbitrary extensions. I love when FOSS Apps become interoperable on the same dataset like that. Yay for data portability :D

      Time to try out Obsidian then

        • kambusha@feddit.ch
          1·
          1 year ago

          Thanks. Did you end up saving your todo file with the .todotxt extension then for now? Does that work for Sleek on desktop?

          • thejevansOP
            1·
            1 year ago

            For now, I use the 1.3.1 release of sleek because it has more features than the 2.0.0-dev8 pre-release build that solved my problem. As a temporary workaround, I create my todo.txt files as filename.todotxt in my obsidian vaults and manually hardlink those files to filename.txt in a todo_txt directory somewhere else on each machine I use sleek on. It works totally fine, it’s just a bit janky. I’ll be happy when sleek 2.0 comes out and I can get rid of the hardlinks.

            • kambusha@feddit.ch
              2·
              1 year ago

              Thanks, appreciate the help! I can live without tasks on phone for a little longer, so I guess I’ll wait out for the release and then set up the sync.