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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I decided against todo.txt a while ago, because it didn't have multi-line tasks.

So, I just checked if that's still the case, and yep, it's issue #2 in the todo.txt repo and still open almost 4 years later.

Really annoying, because there's a fair number of todo.txt compatible apps. I guess, this is one of those cases where it "won", because it is worse in this regard, as that simplifies parsing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

I resorted many years ago to begging the app developers to support it, since the spec maintainers are long gone. They also refused ☹

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago

Right, yeah, I saw your comments on that issue #2 and how no one responded.

My solution was to adopt (a small subset of) the Emacs OrgMode syntax. There's decent mobile apps available, which I use for setting up and receiving reminders. And then on the desktop for the simpler stuff, I just edit the files with my editor (which is not Emacs).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Personally, I think it's not that bad, that it's just a single line. It forces one to keep the description short and doesn't make it to a notepad.