• Fix: fix a reported string incompatibility with Python 3.9.
• Fix: make all internal tests pass.
• Change: report the new repository home.

• New: make the text editor configurable. It can be specified in the configuration file or the editor can be passed with topydo edit -E nano. This makes it also much easier to introduce 'filters', to process (a selection of) todo items through an external command.

• New: with revert ls you can list all backups, with revert NUM you can restore backup NUM (thanks to @mruwek).

• New: tab-completion in column mode (thanks to @mruwek).

• New: the commandline in column mode understands basic readline shortcuts:

  • Ctrl-a: move cursor to the beginning
  • Ctrl-e: move cursor to the end
  • Ctrl-u: delete from the cursor back to the beginning
  • Ctrl-k: delete from the cursor to the end

  (thanks to @mruwek).

• New: 'Mark all' in column mode: simply use Ctrl-A (thanks to @mruwek).

• New list format specifiers (for ls -F):

  • %n: line number
  • %N: padded line number
  • %u: text-based ID
  • %U: padded text-based ID

  The identifiers %i and %I print whatever is configured (default: line numbers).

• New: dep ls was extended to understand the words before and after. For example topydo dep ls before 1 is equivalent to topydo dep ls 1 to (thanks to @mruwek).

• New: introduce 'identifier_alphabet' option in the configuration, allowing you to choose which characters should be used for the text-based identifiers. This is a convenience for Dvorak typists (like me), to only use characters on the base row (and other conveniently positioned characters).

• Fix: crash when running help in column mode.

• Fix: better handling of incorrect dates. The postpone command would crash when a todo item has an invalid due date (e.g. 2016-06-31).

• Fix: take hide tags into account in column mode.

• Fix: print the correct todo IDs in the do or del output (thanks to @mruwek).

• Fix: make add -f more robust when the file does not exist (thanks to @mruwek).

• Fix: ls -n would not print anything under some circumstances, e.g. when todos are hidden.

• Fix: Do not apply ordinal filtering (<, >, =) when a tag appears more than once.

• Fix: crash when launching column mode in Windows. This mode is not supported, you may use Cygwin instead.

• Fix: crash when an option appears twice in the configuration file. The last value for an option will be used (thanks to @mruwek).

• Fix: fix padding for todo IDs.

• Fix: instruct users to use 'pip3' instead of 'pip' (thanks to @mruwek).

• Change: tag, append and dep can work with multiple todo IDs. This allows you to apply these commands on all marked items. Use {} as a placeholder for the multiple IDs, e.g. tag {} due today (thanks to @mruwek).

• Change: completed items have a grey progress color.

• Change: show group names with relative (humanized) dates when they represent dates.

• Change: print empty output when dep ls has no output. Improves feedback to user in column mode (thanks to @mruwek).

• Change: show an error message when parsing the list format fails (thanks to @mruwek).

• Change: use filter expression when no title was given for a column in the column definition file (thanks to @mruwek).

• Change: Ctrl-C does not abort column mode anymore, use :quit or :exit instead.

• New: The tag subcommand understands relative dates with the -r flag: tag -r foo value will interpret value as a relative date and convert to an absolute date.

• Fix: escape special characters in Dot output.

• Fix: when deleting the last column in column mode, no new columns could be added. This is fixed by showing the column definition view to add a new column.

• Change: output in column UI remains visible when : is pressed (instead of Enter or Escape to discard).

• New: ls can group items with the -g flag, accepting a group expression (which has the same format as a sort expression). To group items by project, run: topydo ls -g project.

• New: ls can print todo items in the Graphviz Dot format, such that dependencies can be visualized. Use ls -f dot, or topydo ls -f dot ProjectA | dot -Tsvg -o projectA.svg to make a graph for project A.

• New: Focus and mark colors are customizable in the column UI (thanks to @colinsullivan).

• New: todo items can be hidden by adding a h:1 tag (thanks to @MinchinWeb).

• New: an alternative column definition file can be given with the -l flag: topydo columns -l /path/to/columns.conf (thanks to @mruwek).

• Fix: column UI reloads automatically when the todo.txt file was changed externally.

• Fix: edit did not work on some operating systems (e.g. Mac OS X).

• Fix: relative dates were sometimes one day off.

• Fix: Minor importance calculation fix during the weekend for distant mondays (thanks to @aetherknight).

• Fix: completed items are displayed correctly in the column UI.

• Fix: tests were made more deterministic.

• Change: Performance improvements for the column UI, it scales better with large todo lists.

• Change: temporary files (for editing) will be detected as todo.txt files by the todo.txt-vim plugin.

• Fix: items without priority are shown in the console of the Column UI.

A major release, introducing a new user interface (TUI). Special thanks go to @mruwek for helping out to get this UI in its current shape.

• New: A column-based user interface. Each column has its own filters and sort order, allowing you to build a dashboard with your todo items. Launch with topydo columns.

• New: color blocks that change from green to red (overdue) as time passes by. Use the %z placeholder to add color blocks to the ls output.

• New: color option can be set to 0, 1, 16 or 256 and if needed overridden by -C on the commandline.

• New: recurrence based on business days. Skips Saturdays and Sundays when calculating the next date (thanks to @mruwek).

• New: items can be sorted by length (use 'length' as sort field).

• New: parents-of and children-of operators with add, dep and append subcommands. The todo item receives the same parents/children from the specified todo item.

• New: append understands relative dates and other tags that are special to add (thanks to @rameshg87).

• Fix: dependency ID creation with orphan todo items.

• Fix: crash after completing/deleting an edited item.

• Fix: crash after completing an item that got a new dependency with dep add

• Fix: crash when archive filename is empty (fixed by @mruwek).

• Change: a new tag value with an existing key can be added with the tag subcommand (thanks to @MinchinWeb)

• Change: ~/.config/topydo/config can be used as a configuration file.

• Change: No backups are written for read-only commands (e.g. lsprj)

• Change: topydo is more scalable for large todo.txt files.

• Known issue: color blocks are not shown in ls output in the column UI.

• Misc: topydo also has its own website at topydo.org. All commands and features are documented there.

• Dropped support for Python 2.7.

• Add ability to filter on creation/completion dates:

    topydo ls created:today
    topydo ls completed:today
    topydo -t done.txt completed:today # if auto-archiving is set
  

• ls -F supports %P that expands to a single space when no priority is set, in contrast to %p which expands to an empty string (thanks to @MinchinWeb).

• ls -N prints enough todo items such that it fits on one screen (thanks to @MinchinWeb).

• Aliases can have a {} placeholder which is substituted with the alias' arguments (thanks to @mruwek).

• pri accepts priorities in lowercase (thanks to @MinchinWeb).

• Several bugfixes for dep gc.

• Various test/CI improvements.

• do -d understands relative dates.

• Introduced yesterday as a relative date (abbrev. yes).

• tag command understands relative dates when setting due or t tags.

• Fix install of wheels (unnecessarily installed dependencies). Issue #79.

• Bugfix: the negation of ordinal tag filters did not work.

• Some improvements in test coverage (a.o. thanks to @mruwek).

A big release with many new features. Many thanks to Jacek Sowiński (@mruwek) for the majority of these new features.

• ls output can be customized with a -F flag or a configuration option:

    [ls]
    list_format = |%I| %x %{(}p{)} %c %s %k %{due:}d %{t:}t
  

  or ls -F "%{(}p{)} %s %{due:}d".

  See help ls for all placeholders. Each placeholder can optionally be surrounded by optional texts that are only printed when the placeholder is expanded to a value.

  The format string may contain a tab character: all text that follows is aligned to the right.

  (thanks to @mruwek)

• New subcommand: revert. Revert the last executed command(s). The number of revisions can be tuned in the configuration file:

  [topydo]
  backup_count = 25
  

  Set to 0 to disable this feature. (thanks to @mruwek)

• New feature: aliases. Aliases can be defined in the configuration file:

    [aliases]
    showall = ls -x
  

  (thanks to @mruwek)

• Filter based on priorities (thanks to @mruwek)

  ls (A)
  ls (<A)
  

• ls has a -n flag to limit the number of todo items (similar to the list_limit option in the configuration file:

  ls -n 5
  

• ls has a -i flag to select displaying todo items based on their ID. This can be useful to have a 'clean' default view, and to gather more details for a certain todo item using aliases and formatting.

• Prompt mode no longer warns about background modifications to todo.txt when a read-only command is entered (e.g. ls).

• Removed restriction in edit mode that requires keeping the same amount of lines in the todo.txt file.

• edit only processes the todo items when edits were actually made in the editor (thanks to @mruwek)

• When entering today's day of the week as a relative date, it will use next week's date instead of today.

• Bugfix: not all tags were properly hidden with the hide_tags configuration option.

• Better PEP8 compliance (thanks to @MinchinWeb)

• Various test/CI improvements (thanks to @MinchinWeb)

• Support for Python 3.2 removed.

• Many other minor improvements (a.o. thanks to @MinchinWeb)

• Recurrence patterns can be prefixed with a to indicate strict recurrence (i.e. based on due date rather than completion date. This syntax is inspired from the SimpleTask project by @mpcjanssen.
• Colors now work on the Windows commandline (thanks to @MinchinWeb). Requires colorama to be installed.
• Do not print spurious color codes when colors are disabled in the configuration (thanks to @MinchinWeb).
• In prompt mode, restore old auto-completion behavior: press Tab for completion (instead of complete while typing).
• Various other minor fixes (thanks to @MinchinWeb).

• Remove 'ical' subcommand in favor of 'topydo ls -f ical'

• Remove options highlight_projects_colors in favor of colorscheme options. In case you wish to disable the project/context colors, assign an empty value in the configuration file:

  [colorscheme]
  project_color =
  context_color =
  

• del, depri, do, pri, postpone now support now expression like ls does, using the -e flag (Jacek Sowiński, @mruwek).

• Fix ls when searching for a certain key:value where value is a string.

• Disable auto archive when the option archive_filename is empty.

• Add option auto_creation_date to enable/disable the creation date being added to new todo items.

• Calculate relative dates correctly in long-running prompt sessions.

• pri also accepts priorities in the form (A), [A] or any other bracket.

• Add listcontext and listcontexts as aliases of lscon.

• Highlight tags when the value is one character long.

• Cleanups

• Fix infinite loop when keep_sorted is enabled in the configuration.
• Depend on prompt-toolkit >= 0.39, which fixes the history functionality in prompt mode (up/down keys).

• A new prompt mode with autocompletion. To enable, run pip install prompt-toolkit, then topydo prompt.
• Support for Python 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4 (note that iCalendar output does not work in Python 3.2)
• Better Unicode support.
• add command has the -f flag to add todo items from a file (or use - to read from standard input) (Jacek Sowiński - @mruwek)
• Customizable colors additional highlighting of tags and URLs (Jacek Sowiński (@mruwek) and @kidpixo).
• Make sure that the edit subcommand always uses the correct todo.txt file.
• ls subcommand has the -f flag to specify the output format. Currently, three formats are supported:
  • text - The default plain text format.
  • ical - iCalendar (WARNING: this deprecates the ical subcommand)
  • json - Javascript Object Notation (JSON)
• Resolve ~ to home directory if used in a configuration file (@robertvanbregt).
• Various minor fixes.

Again, I'd like to thank Jacek (@mruwek) for his assistance and contributions in this release.

• edit subcommand accepts a list of numbers or an expression to select which items to edit. (Jacek Sowiński)
• The commands del, do, pri, depri and postpone can operate on multiple todo items at once. (Jacek Sowiński)
• A new ical subcommand that outputs in the iCalendar format.
• New configuration option: append_parent_contexts. Similar to append_parent_projects where the parent's contexts are automatically added to child todo items. (Jacek Sowiński)
• New configuration option: hide_tags to hide certain tags from the ls output. Multiple tags can be specified separated by commas. By default, p, id and ical are hidden.
• Properly complete todo items with invalid recurrence patterns (rec tag).
• Fix assignment of dependency IDs: in some cases two distinct todos get the same dependency ID.

Big thanks to Jacek (@mruwek) for his contributions in this release.

• A new edit subcommand to launch an editor with the configured todo.txt file.

• Introduced textual identifiers in addition to line numbers.

  Line numbers are still the default, textual identifiers can be enabled with the option identifiers = text in the configuration file (see topydo.conf). The advantage of these identifiers is that they are less prone to changes when something changes in the todo.txt file. For example, identifiers are much more likely to remain the same when completing a todo item (and archiving it). With linenumbers, all todo items below the completed one would get a new identifier.

• Relative dates with months and years are more accurate now (thanks to Jacek Sowiński).

• Multiple items can be marked as complete or deleted at once.

• Added option to automatically add the projects of the parent todo item when adding a child todo item. Enable append_parent_projects in topydo.conf.

• topydo help shows a list of available subcommands. Moreover, you can run topydo help <subcommand> as well.

• Let setuptools provide a topydo executable.

• Various other fixes.

• Handle recurrence properly when a custom completion date is given.
• Allow any tag to have a date value (so it can be filtered as such).

• Write newline character at the end of todo.txt and done.txt files.
• Tag values must be at least one character long.
• Made filtering a bit more robust w.r.t. integer expressions.

Initial release.