Task annotations?

[mgiugliano]

Coming from Task Warrior, I am used to the advantages of task annotations. These are currently not possible in the todo.txt specs, if I am not mistaken. I am of course aware of the "notes" action but that involves one extra file per task. I am also following the discussion for including URI or at least not triggering unwanted consequences when having https://, mailto:*, etc.

Inspired by comments in programming languages, I wonder whether a simple solution for annotating a task would be to add # at the very end of the line and then interpreting all that follows as an annotation.

I hope it helps or triggers a discussion and I do hope from learn from you about this beautiful plain-text minimalistic and elegant project.

[inkarkat]

the "notes" action involves one extra file per task

So what? Isn't that a pure implementation detail that you shouldn't be concerned of? The use case for most people around annotations is longer text and/or multi-line text (which would be in conflict with the line-based todo.txt format or at least a hassle to handle).
If all you ask for is the possibility to ignore some task text parts on some outputs while showing the full task text on demand, using a custom marker (like #) coupled with a custom filter and todo.sh append "# annotation here" to add those.

[mgiugliano]

Apologies for having bothered you. Forget about my naive and stupid remark. I won't be concerned.

[inkarkat]

There are no stupid questions... I'm genuinely interested in the use cases around task annotations. (I've personally never used them so far; I occasionally link external files inside the task, but never felt a need to directly attach those files closer to the task.)