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I am working with multiple todo.txt files, because I am using that to collaborate other people by syncing it via dropbox.
I would be awesome if switching todo.txt-files would be easier e.g. by having a history of these files.

Thanks a lot for this really nice frontend.

I like the idea of being able to edit the todo.txt from the terminal or from Sleek.

Could it watch todo.txt for changes?

If you like the idea, I could maybe put in a PR.

Dear sleek users.

I worked on a major update containing security (context isolation has been implemented and node integration turned off) and performance improvements.

The update implied some bigger changes on the code and I gave it quite some testing. But of course the most valueable insights will derive from actual usage.

I would like to encourage you to use the 0.9.0-Alpha release and provide me with your feedback, if you find anything that doesn't look right.

But please don't expect new features, this is an update to reduce technical depths.

You can download it here: https://github.com/ransome1/sleek/releases/tag/0.9.0-Alpha-2

Please backup your todo files as a general precaution.

Thanks.

Will it be possible to open .md files instead of .txt files?

In the task list, a reordering of tasks should be possible.

They should displayed grouped by:

• today
• tomorrow
• upcoming (grouping all tasks the next two weeks)
• somedate (here are all without date)

When dropping into "tomorrow", the task gets tomorrow's date (similar for today). When dropping into "somedate", the date is unset. Dropping into "upcoming" the task receives the latest date in that range. If dropped after, it gets the date of that task. If it is dropped as first task, it gets the date of the before-first-task.

Changing the language quits Sleek instantly. When I did this the first time I thought Sleek had silently crashed. I then assumed that it might just be automatically restarting, because tools oftentimes do this. After a while without anything happening I started Sleek manually again and switched languages back and forth to confirm that this is in fact intended and there is no crash.

Ideas how to improve the user feedback:

A) Add a sentence like "Changing the language requires a restart" to the language setting's description, possibly in bold. Disable automatic quitting.
B) Open an info popup that can be closed by pressing OK that reads something like "You have to restart Sleek for this change to take effect." Disable automatic quitting.
C) Open an info popup that reads something like "Sleek needs to restart to change the language. Restart now?", which can be answered with "Yes" and "No, I'll restart later". Yes would automatically restart, the other option closes the dialogue.

It would be nice to be able to pin individual context(s) and/or project(s) to the sidebar.

Ideally, this would be defined per context or per project.

The readme lists the following feature: "Todos are sorted by due date within their priorities"

However, this does not seem to actually be the case. As far as I can tell, tasks with due dates are always shown above tasks without them (which is desirable), but beyond that tasks are shown in the order of creation.

Steps to replicate: I currently have 5 tasks with due dates, added in the following order:

Assignment 2 due:2021-01-31 +CS301
CA2 due:2021-01-31 +CS301
Specification document due:2021-02-03 +CS496
Godot project due:2021-02-21 +CS301

At this point, I added several tasks without due dates before adding the task below.

Go through RELS lectures due:2021-02-04 +RELS100

sleek has added the creation date 2021-01-31 to each of these tasks.

Expected behavior: Todos are sorted by due date within their priorities. As there are no priorities, the final added task should be moved up to 4th in the list.
Actual behavior: The list stayed in the current order. Restarting sleek did not change anything.

Discovered an error when I tried to use Sleek today!

I opened sleek, chose my inbox context, and started clicking 'done' on some stuff that I'd already completed. They didn't get removed from the task list. I tried clicking on other, same issue.

I noticed (because I have 'completed todos' selected) that at the bottom of the list, there is a completed task, and it's the same one I clicked on. In fact, it changes based on whichever task I'm clicking 'done' on, but it never takes the actual task into 'done' status. (Does that make sense? It's basically copying the task line and putting it at the end of the file.)

I checked by opening the file in my text editor, and I can see a copy of the same task line with the done 'x' on it. And the same behaviour. Click on a different task to complete, reload the file in the text editor, it's whatever task I've tried to process at the end with an 'x'.

Not sure if anyone else has had this yet, or if it's unique to me.

I'm on Ubuntu 20.04. I've just uninstalled and reinstalled the app through snap.

Just installed Sleek. Nice work! Any plans to support repeating tasks?

An option named Template could be added to the three-dots context menu. It would result in opening a pre-filled dialog to create a new task, with its content being identical to the original task (due dates, contexts, tags, etc.), but with the original description being replaced by "__________", so that it could be easily double-clicked and overwritten by the user with a new description.

I think such feature can be quite useful, well, at least it is for me. And what do you think about that?

I could even give a try at implementing it and sending a pull request, if you wish so.

As user, I want to add TODOs quickly. Thus, I also want to choose a due-date quickly. If I want to achieve something in three months or this year, I don't want to choose the exact date (e.g., 2020-12-31). Could the date picker offer following as dropdown?

• today
• tomorrow
• weekend
• next week
• in one month
• this year

Running Sleek on Google Chromebook Crostini. Might be a problem with write permission but I don't know how to determine the cause. This is a new problem to 0.9.0 alpha.

The Sleek todo.txt file does not open when Sleek starts up. The file will not open using the Open "toto.txt" button. I could create a new toto.txt file but then was unable to save an item to that file.

--Bill

The existing recurrence period options are quite handy, but I think that the task recreation system would be much more useful if we could be more specific in regard to the periods. For example, a task could then not only be recurring daily, weekly, monthly or annually, but also every three days, every two weeks, and other combinations of numbers and the existing options.

The recurrence period picker menu could have an extra number spinner (e.g. from 1 up to 99, and default 1) that would act as a multiplier for the options listed there: ... day(s), ... week(s), ... month(s), ... year(s). Do you think that would be confusing, or not?

Also, if you agree with this feature request, I can give a try at implementing it, and then send a pull request.

Textarea editing - looks like your most recent update broke this feature.
It is not stripping line feeds when saving to a file therefore it creates a todo for every line.
thx
marshall

Hello, I've tried using start:yyyy-mm-dd but it seems to have no effect. I was hoping the task with a start date would be hidden until that date. Just curious, what functionality is build around the start date?

Thanks.

on the very first press after installation, the dark-dark mode button does not do anything.

afterwards it works, it can be reproduced by deleting ~/.config/sleek

this is probably due to this:

  if(switchTheme) {
    switch (theme) {
      case "dark":
        theme = "light";
        break;
      case "light":
        theme = "dark";
        break;
      case "system":
        theme = "light";
        break;
    }

which means: if system is already light, nothing changes. I'm not sure how to fix this bug.

Electron documentation says this:

The usage of this property should align with a classic "dark mode" state machine in your application where the user has three options.

Follow OS --> themeSource = 'system'
Dark Mode --> themeSource = 'dark'
Light Mode --> themeSource = 'light'

Hi - I encountered something which is I think a bug. Pasting of text content is not possible on the Mac Version. When I press CMD+V or try to right click into the field nothing happens. I tested it side by side with other clients on Mac e.g. TodotxtMac where I don't have this issue. Do you know what could be causing this behaviour?
I am using version 0.9.0 on macOS big sur latest update.

The About and Settings popup menus are currently centered vertically on the screen. They grow and shrink evenly when the content size changes. This is visually appealing, but introdues the problem of jumping headings. This makes quick switching between tabs difficult, as in addition to moving the mouse cursor left and right one has to move up and down too.

This one is a feature request, something that occurred to me as we were dealing with the problem of completed tasks.

Simpletask Android does this via an 'archive' option, taking all the completed tasks and putting them in a done.txt file in the same local folder.

It would be awesome for Sleek to be able to do this as well! And even better, if it wouldn't overwrite the done.txt that Simpletask creates, so that whatever tasks completed in either don't overwrite the other.

Here's Simpletask's Github: https://github.com/mpcjanssen/simpletask-android

Not seeing a dmg for macOS under releases

The Notification setting does not remain toggled in the off position.

Open Sleek - Notification toggle is on
Turn Notification setting off
Close Sleek
Open Sleek - check setting and Notification toggle is on

Sleek version 0.8.4 on Chromebook Linux Crostini and Chrome OS Version 88.0.4324.99

It would be handy being able to rename or delete a Context or Project inside Sleek, which would then be applied to all affected tasks.

This could be implemented by right-clicking the desired item in the Filters menu, which would open a small menu that has an "Edit" option. Clicking this option would open a popup similar to the one for new tasks, where the item's name is already filled in and can be changed.

The menu would have three buttons: Cancel, Rename, Delete.

• Cancel closes the menu without appying any changes.
• Rename changes the name, updates all tasks and closes the menu.
• Delete removes the item from all tasks and closes the menu.

It would be helpful to display the old name on top or as the menu's title while this menu is open. Like "Renaming [current Project name]", so if the user clears the input field he still knows which item he is renaming.

Renaming an item to a name that already exists should be allowed, as this would simply assign the previously existing item to the affected tasks.

It would be great to be able to select multiple items and then:
Copy
Add/Remove Tags
Add/Remove Context
Add/Remove/Change up,down Priority
Mark Done/In Progress

I really like the sleek app so far and want to say thank you for your efforts. Great start!

Hi

I keep setting it to the dark mode (both in the left bar and in the settings) but it keeps going back to the light theme during the next start.

I am using it on Debian Testing, Flatpak, v0.9.0

thanks

Trying to archive todos in 0.9.2 gives me the following error message on Win7 and Linux Mint Cinnamon 20.1:

All finished todos are erased from the project but not backed up in a done.txt. I tried creating a done.txt manually and out of curiosity also renamed my todo document to todo.txt, but to no avail.

This app has a nice UI and I would like to see the input field be a textarea field to make editing longer than normal items easier. This would improve the usability IMHO and you can circumvent LF with a special character if desired as not to inject them into the text file.

Not seeing a macOS Package.

It’s really great to have nice, sleek and actively developed todo.txt app!
Thanks for the great work!

The way I have been working with the todo.txt syntax is that I use the priority to stand for the time period in which a task needs to be done: (A) is today, (B) is tomorrow, (C) is this week, and (D) is next week
Because of that I often need to reassign priorities and I would be great if this would be made easier by the app (and I guess it would be useful for many other use cases as well).

It could either happen via simple up/down buttons – just like qtodotxt2 does it – or via a dedicated priority picker button – just like simpletask for android does it. In both cases, it would also be great to be able to change the priority via the keyboard (either up down or by simply typing the desired priority (A, B, C, etc...)

Keep up the great work

Hi,
I did some tests with sleek 0.9.0 alpha on Kubuntu 20.04:

• Opening file works
• Creating file works
• Switching between files works
• Adding todos works
• Editing todos works
• Deleting todos works
• Checking todos works
• Viewing checked todos works (strg + h)
• Filter pane is correct
• Filtering todos with filter pane works
• switching dark/light mode works

Issues I've found:

• When filtering with the search line at the top: After entering one letter the text field looses focus (see video)
• Can I see the version of sleek somewhere in the program?

I've just installed sleek over snap, als mentioned in the description. The dialog for choosing an existing or creating a new todo.txt looks like this: Error Pic

System: Manjaro

Hello,
I am using sleek for a few days now and I like your software really a lot.
Despite its 0.xx version code I'm impressed by the stability and the features it has.
However I have a few remarks but all of them are minor:

• The shortcut Strg+b (to show/hide filter pane) is missing in the Shortcuts help
  
• A shortcut to disable the filters is missing
• Could you shorten the links in the tasks to improve readability
• It would be nice, if you could add some other schemes to the URI-detection like e.g. file:// which would allow to link files
• The tabindex could be improved sometimes. E.g. if you are in the filter line a tab doesn't bring you to the task pane
• Generaly I would like to navigate through the tasks and edit them with my keyboard
• Could you support hidden tasks (h:1) as other todo.txt apps do?
• And the best would be, if you could support notes in tasks as the notes add on for todo.txt-cli (https://github.com/mgarrido/todo.txt-cli/tree/note/todo.actions.d) does.

Thanks for your good work and keep on with sleek.

BR
Stefan

Currently the sorting order is by priority and inside the priority sorting is by due date. I in contrary prefer sorting by due date and then by priority. So i can see all tasks on one concrete day ordered by priority. It would be nice, if this sorting order could be integrated as an option, too. Maybe with a button to change between both orders.

It would be helpful to have the ability register many todo files, each file with global context, and to easily switch between todo files.

Changes to tasks or new items are not displayed until Sleek is closed then opened again.

To recreate, make a change to an item or create an item to see that changes will not be displayed.

Hello, what a great surprise ! I like very much todo.txt concept but stopped using it as I did not find an interface I liked. Your application is beautiful and very well designed. Thanks a lot. Alarm/Reminder management is very promising.

So the point I don’t like much is the way filters are shown. For the moment, we have to click once to see different filters. I would prefer they were shown directly in main window so we can filter in one click (as tags in CMS).

In the filter, an option to make a filter by "no project", "no context", or "no both" would be nice.
Now if a todo is added without project or context, when the list is too long, it is hard to find.

Hi @ransome1,

I am a simple user, not a coder. I discovered your Sleek program for Windows a few days ago. I really like the look and feel of it - nicely done!

I am using SimpleTask (Cloudless) on Android with SyncThing to keep shared files updated between laptop (Windows), phone (Android) and a tablet (Android).

SyncThing replaces the todo.txt file that is currently open by the ToDo applications. This does not seem to be a problem for the Android apps, as they apparently simply reload the todo.txt on the fly or I can use a menu option to refresh the currently open file.

Sleek falls back to its start screen once the open todo.txt is replaced. It does reload the updated file eventually but it took from 30 to 90+ seconds during my tests and a few times it did not reload the todo.txt at all and simply stayed at the start screen.

In case I am not the only one with this issue, can the interval of file update checks be increased? Or a third button be added to the start screen to quickly refresh the most recently open todo.txt?

Thank you.

This is similar to an earlier feature request, though that one was limited to just the process of adding new tasks. (For anyone else reading, basically, that function is reducing the possible contexts and projects you can apply reduce as you type. So if you type '[at]1' for example, you'll only see the contexts that still apply based on that criteria. I use numbers for some important contexts, so it's a very useful shorthand for me. I've also got projects that start with some similar wording, so it's handy to filter down to only the ones that apply.)

This is something different though. I'm wondering if what's visible in the filter tray can be reduced according to the filters that apply.

For example, if I select [at]someday, I would love to see only those projects and contexts that apply to any of the tasks that are inside that filter. I've got tags in there like +read +gaming +watch, etc.

So, following that example, let's say I wanted to see what projects have tasks that are currently captured in the [at]someday context... in this new feature request, I'd click the context in the filter tray and/or search for the context in the search bar, and then in the filter tray I'd only see whatever contexts and projects still apply to the current filter. So I'd only see +watch +read, +gaming, instead of everything that is in the file.

In that earlier feature request, I think I said I was okay with just seeing the highlighted contexts in play, but with the amount I have of both contexts and projects, seeing those contexts and projects disappear if they don't match the current filter would be very useful!

Another bit of functionality!

When I create a new task, I'm probably going to assign it to [at]Inbox, and maybe a project if I already know it applies. But because everything is case-sensitive, a typo could lead to problems.

It would be great if either (or both) things could happen:

• When I start typing an @ or a + it will provide me a list of all the contexts or projects that apply to whatever I've typed after that. (For example, if I had +car and +carpark, it would show me those two, because they fit what I'd already started typing) I could then select the filter option that I want, either by selecting it with mouse or arrow keys, or maybe by tab-completing it, or both? (Selecting is probably easiest)

• When a new task is being made, or a current one edited, there was a context and project button to use to apply each of them.

The lists for both of these should be sorted alphanumerically, however they appear!

Let me know how that sounds!

Can any of the distributions be installed on a device using a Mediatek processor? In this case a Lenovo Chromebook Duet. Excuse my lack of understanding about the various Linux distributions.

Thank you.

I would love to see the ability to stack multiple filter options. For example: if I've got the @1_inbox context and the +car project, that I could select both and see only those tasks that match both.

It would be great if this stacking filter option extends beyond two, as well. Some tasks may use multiple filter options.

There are some buttons that become focused when pressed, which results in an outline around the button. This can look odd, especially for on/off toggle buttons.

Locations where this happens and probably shouldn't (you might disagree with some of them):

• the Show filters button at the top
• the View menu button
• the two switches inside the View menu
• switches in the settings
• the Toggle dark mode button

Hi!
When I open the last build, I encountered 2 little issues:

1. Sleek don't show my tasks until I search for "all" on the search bar;
2. The "error and event logging" window don't close even after the activation of the related option.

Left: 0.9.0 build. Right: Microsoft Store's available build

These behaviour occur both when I using .txt or .md extensions for the todo file

I on the Windows 10 Pro 1909.

Sorting filters in the filter tray either by amount of tasks using those contexts/projects, or sorting them alphanumerically. (In the other systems I've used, they sort them alphanumerically, so I've got some 'top level' contexts like [at]1_inbox because then it's the first thing I see on Simpletask Android or on some of the other apps I've used.

It seems that clicking the Clear button doesn't remove the due date from the text input field.

I like sleek. Up to now i use QTodoTxt for managing my todo.txt. Compared to QTodoTxT sleek uses a larger font size and much more vertikal space between the entries in a list. Which leads to a worse overview over my (tons of) tasks.
Is there an option to reduce the row-height and the font size?

thanks

Tobias

The View menu in the top right corner only closes when some types of elements are clicked, but stays open for other types. For example it closes when a task is clicked, but stays open when the button for adding new tasks is clicked. On the other hand it also closes when the task adding menu is closed.

This kind of menu feels like it should close immediately when anything else is clicked, even when a background click on a surface like the free space on the left in the filter area is performed.

I'm on Manjaro:

DISTRIB_ID=ManjaroLinux
DISTRIB_RELEASE=20.1.2
DISTRIB_CODENAME=Mikah
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Manjaro Linux"

I used the .pacman release to install.
I'm using English.

It would be great to be able to set the font size and face.
It would also be nice to be able to change the size with keyboard shortcuts.