Entries tagged with “plugin” from ant0ine's blog

I'm still looking for the perfect tool to manage my ToDo lists. I tried a lot of different things: wiki, spreadsheet, online web2.0 apps, emails, ..., I always came back to my plain text file. With the time, I added some Vim shortcuts to make the editing easier. This is not perfect, I know it's possible to do better things with Vim. Vim experts, comments are welcome :-)

Here is my tip:

I keep a list of tasks formatted like this (one task per line) :

priority - cat1 - cat2 - task description

and use the following mapping:

map <F1> 5<C-X>
map <F2> 5<C-A>
map <F3> :.s/^\d\+/99 - _done/<CR>:noh<CR>
map <F4> :%!sort -b -n -k 1<CR>
map <F5> :%!sort -b -f -k 2<CR>

F1 and F2 decreases and increases the priority number by 5 (you need to have the cursor on the number)

F4 sorts the list by priority

F5 sorts the list by the first category

If you have finished a task, you can delete the line, or hit F3 that set the priority to 99 and the first category to _done (these tasks will always be listed at the end of the list)

I use the Marty Pauley's MTKwiki plugin based on CGI::Kwiki since more than a year. It is a simple and useful plugin when you like to use the wiki syntax in Movable Type. But the CGI::Kwiki::Formatter output is not XHTML valid, which is a bit annoying when you try keep your blog in XHTML. Brian Ingerson rewrote completely CGI::Kwiki into Kwiki which provides a lot of improvements including the XHTML support.

Thanks to the bad weather this Saturday afternoon in Paris, I decided to write a new simple plugin that uses Kwiki::Formatter instead of CGI::Kwiki::Formatter.

Here is the MT Kwiki Formatter plugin

By default, the Wiki links are disabled, but if you have a instance of Kwiki running on your server, then you can enable them via the plugin settings.

To Install it, you need to have Kwiki installed, then untar the archive in your plugins/ directory, or use the Byrne's Plugin Manager.