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> do you plan support for text unrelated to tasks ? I haven’t thought about that much yet. I’ve tracked it here for it to be discussed: https://github.com/jotaen/xit/discu…

I think the viewpoints on that are wildly diverse. As far as I’m concerned, it’s the exact opposite. Hence, I think it’s great that there is a big variety of different approaches that everyone can pic…

It’s basically one way of allowing to create an information hierarchy, e.g. [ ] Work on #ticket=283 [x] Buy new computer. #done=2022-02-24 Then you could query for `#ticket`, or for speci…

> Question: why must the square brackets be used[2]? There is no technical benefit behind the square bracket notation. As you mentioned, it’s mostly for readability reasons. My take on pleasant pla…

A few (cosmetic) details, for example: - They don’t support multiline item descriptions. They actually prohibit that for a specific reason, because you can’t sort the lines lexicographically anymore. …

> I feel like a spec like this was meant for a pretty niche group of people. That’s spot on actually.

I appreciate the criticism, thanks! I disagree, though, that adhering to standardised formats is not worth it. Currently, there are countless todo apps and editor plugins out there, which all do very …

I also thought about this, but I have postponed it for now, because there are some implications with this (see here: https://github.com/jotaen/xit/discussions/2 ). So I …

Cool, that looks quite neat! I agree with you, at some point you have to structure things in one way or the other, in order to keep an overview. For me it works somewhat well to organise my data acros…

I used todo.txt for a while, but in the end I stopped using the CLI tool and just worked with the files directly. For my use cases, the todo.txt file format has a few shortcomings and inconveniences, …

Clickable links: Website with demo: https://xit.jotaen.net File specification: https://github.com/jotaen/xit/blob/main/Specification.md …

> That single password is what's used both to retrieve the vault and to decrypt it. Not sure how you mean that: if I used Keepass for example, which uses a file vault, and I told you that my m…

OP asked for exactly those thoughts, though? > I apprecitate that this is probably one for a lawyer, but wanted to get some thoughts on this approach for protect one's side projects.

> Of course, you have to be sure that master password is not leaked, but the same is true for any stateful password manager. I don’t think this comparison is accurate. With a vault-based password m…

> I think good time tracking and invoicing are similar to having a good dev setup. I agree and found that to be especially true with freelancing, since the work time is the effectively basis for th…

Thanks for that link, I didn’t know Hamster yet. I agree, having a UI (at least optionally) is a big plus.

Timewarrior uses a custom data format, but I don’t think it’s meant to be read or manipulated by hand. You technically can, but you’d need to spell out full UTC timestamps, for example. It’s a great t…

Just for reference, this was the discussion of the “Show HN” post from February, when I initially published the project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25995838 …

For me what mattered most was to have a format that allows to access/edit the data without needing specific tools (other than a text editor, that is). But as you said, both formats have their pro…

Well done, and great that you could adapt the idea to your workflow.

Problem is (unless I’m misunderstanding you) that the entries must be unanimously distinguishable from the summary text. Consider: 2018-03-27 Tried to do this and that, but had to stop a…

Thanks for your feedback, much appreciated. The current model is that every record (i.e. that entire block) can have multiple entries that are added up regardless of order. So the resulting total is t…

And good that you tackle the test setup – that’s neglected far too often unfortunately.

As an idea, you could consider to use HTML5 elements in order to make it more semantic. <dl> <dt><time>2018-07-07 14:54:39</time> - <time>2018-07-07 17:1…

Happy to hear that you like it! I am indeed more focussed on the file format right now than on the command line tool. If the format turns out to be valuable and useful in itself, my plan would be to b…

In case you have one file per day you could also consider using a YAML frontmatter like it’s used in Jekyll[1]. Then you could capture the time-related info as structured meta-data. [1] https:/&…

E.g. say you want to take over 50h worth of time from somewhere else into a new `.klg` file, then you would be able to note that down under a single record. My thought was that there are more reasons …