Persistent contexts and projects

[eamonburns]

Is there a way to have contexts and projects that are always listed in listproj and listcon, even if there are no todos that currently have them? I have a script that allows me to easily pick between available contexts and projects, and it would be nice to not have to retype them every time I have completed all the tasks currently related to them

[inkarkat]

To add additional projects or contents to listproj / listcon, you can override the built-in commands (or add alternative commands) that just delegate to the built-in command and add more output on their own:

#!/bin/bash

[ "$1" = "usage" ] && TODO_ACTIONS_DIR=/ exec "$TODO_FULL_SH" help listcon  # Delegate help to the built-in command, avoid endless recursion by clearing the actions dir.
shift

echo $'@static-context1\n@static-context2'  # The static list of additional contexts.
listWordsWithSigil '@' "$@" # Delegate to the built-in function.

However, that means maintaining the static list within the script (or a separate file). I think a more useful implementation would be looking into the done tasks; the Bash completion does that already when no project / context is found.

TODOTXT_SOURCEVAR=\$DONE_FILE todo.sh listcon ... looks for contexts in done files; if you combine that with the regular listcon output, de-duplicate via sort --unique, you'll get a list of all current and past contexts.

[eamonburns]

Ok, I will probably make my own custom action then