This is an Alfred Workflow inspired by an @holman's idea:
All
todo
does is put a file on my Desktop with the filename given. That's it. I aggressively prune my desktop of old tasks and keep one or two on there at a time. Once I've finished a todo, I just delete the file. That's it.
Desktop Todo allows you to create/delete empty items on your desktop from Alfred. That's it.
Open Alfred and type:
t my todo item
will create an empty my todo item
file on ~/Desktop
.
Adding the -c
parameter followed by a color number (see below) will set the 'Label' of the file, just as you can do with the Finder.
t -c2 my important todo item
will create an empty my important todo item
file on ~/Desktop
labeled in red.
Available colors are:
- Orange
- Red
- Yellow
- Blue
- Purple
- Green
- Gray
Open Alfred and type d
followed by a space will list you empty files without extension (assumed as todo items) from ~/Desktop
.
Selecting one and pressing Enter
will delete it.