Cannot display todo.yml

[tolga-balci]

Hi Team,

Thanks for the great application.

I hope I'm at the right place to ask my question.

I'm setting up my wtfutil but the only thing that I could not display is my todo.yml.

Here is the snip from my config.yml file:

    todolist:
      type: todo
      checkedIcon: "X"
      colors:
        checked: gray
        highlight:
          fore: "black"
          back: "orange"
      enabled: true
      filename: "/home/tolga/.config/wtf/todo.yml"
      position:
        top: 1
        left: 3
        height: 4
        width: 1
      refreshInterval: 15s

It does not make a difference whether I use absolute or relative paths in "filename".

Here is my todo.yml:

cat /home/tolga/.config/wtf/todo.yml
| | Customer call.
| | Account Manager meeting prep.
| | Customer business review.
| | Customer support update

And here is how my dashboard looks like:

Any ideas why my todo.yml is not being displayed? I attached my config.yml file (I changed the extension to txt as GitHub does not allow me to upload files with yml extension.)

config.txt

Many thanks!
Tolga

[Seanstoppable]

So, digging into this, the reason is that we are already assuming that we are in the configuration directory. So specifying '/home/tolga/.config/wtf/todo.yml' comes out as '/home/tolga/.config/wtf/home/tolga/.config/wtf/todo.yml'
If you just make it 'todo.yml' it should work.
I am adding some code to make the error clear.

[tolga-balci]

Sean, thanks for the update.
However, this did not work. Here is my config.yml todo part:

todolist:
  type: todo
  checkedIcon: "X"
  colors:
    checked: gray
    highlight:
      fore: "black"
      back: "orange"
  enabled: true
  filename: "todo.yml"
  position:
    top: 1
    left: 3
    height: 4
    width: 1
  refreshInterval: 15s

todo.yml is:

| | Customer call
| | Account Manager meeting prep
| | Customer business review
| | Customer support update

Still the "Todo" section in the dashboard is blank.

[Seanstoppable]

Oh, so, that is actually the wrong format for todo.yml, as it is expecting yaml.

Something valid would look like:

items:
- checked: true
  checkedicon: x
  text: Test
  uncheckedicon: ' '

You can, for example, create an item using the keyboard shortcuts and see what the output is like.

With the latest version of wtfutil, you should see an error that it is unable to parse the file properly.

[tolga-balci]

Doh!
Now it works with the snippet above. Thanks much.
However, from a productivity perspective, for a 1-line of a todo item, we are creating 4 lines of yaml code.
I don't know if that would be doable, but moving the configuration items (items, checked uncheckedicon...) to config.yml and then have wtfutil parse the todo file which contains a list of items with the following syntax will be more efficient

| | Customer call
| | Account Manager meeting prep

or

[ ] Customer business review
[ ] Customer support update

[Seanstoppable]

We are using yaml for a specific reason (ease of parsing vs writing our own custom parser), but you are right that we probably are over saving items. I created an issue to investigate.

[jaltgen]

Hey all, thanks first for wtfutil, absolutely love it! I do have another usecase here:

Set an absolute path to the todo.yml so it can sit anywhere and (e.g.) be included in another git repo.

My specific case is, that I have a markdown based wiki under ~/notes and would like to have the todo file there too so it can be included in the git repo and shared across systems. Now, I can reach this using a relative path, but that seems... less than elegant... to me. Why not just accept absolute paths here? EDIT: sure, symlinking works also. maybe it's a moot point.