I’ve been using Todo.txt for at least a year, both from the commandline and the Android app.

It’s great keeping a todo list in text files, synchronized across multiple devices via Dropbox, but there’s one nagging thing in my system.
That nagging issue is that Todo.txt doesn’t nag me enough about the issues in my todo list! So, I’m taking steps to resolve this by adding a function to my zshrc configuration.

I mapped out the basic command in the shell by combining todo’s ls, grep (to keep only lines starting with numbers), and then a wordcount by line.

The following function was taken from Wynnnetherland.com and modified since I installed todo.txt through Homebrew, and since I prefer a different command to count the items.

todo\_count(){ if $(which todo.sh &\> /dev/null) then num=$(echo $(todo.sh ls | grep "^[0-9]" | wc -l)) let todos=num if [$todos != 0] then echo "$todos" else echo "" fi else echo "" fi } function zle-line-init zle-keymap-select { RPS1="${${KEYMAP/vicmd/\>\>\> ○[$(todo\_count)]}/(main|viins)/± \<\<\<[$(todo\_count)]}" RPS2=$RPS1 zle reset-prompt }

The following is a diff of the difference showing the updated function [gist id=2817309]

Now my right hand prompt shows a nice count of incomplete todo items inside square brackets…like so: [gist id=2817339]

Update: My own syntax highlighting is escaping some of the characters, so here’s a gist of it [gist id=2817304]