<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I use task paper and love it. Definitely the fastest way to throw in todo items. I wouldn't call the format yaml-ish though. Here's an example:<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><p style="margin: 10.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Helvetica"><b><p style="margin: 10.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Helvetica"><b>This is a project</b><span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">:</span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 35px; text-indent: -35px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>- <span style="text-decoration: line-through">This is a task <a href="http://@done"><span style="text-decoration: line-through ; color: #808080">@done</span></a></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 35px; text-indent: -35px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>- Another Task <a href="http://@context"><span style="color: #808080">@context</span></a></div><p style="margin: 10.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Helvetica"><span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span></span><b>Another Project</b><span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">:</span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 63px; text-indent: -63px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>- Task again</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 56px; text-indent: -56px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>Plain text</div></b></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 56px; text-indent: -56px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 56px; text-indent: -56px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Words followed by a colon are a project.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 56px; text-indent: -56px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Words following a hyphen are a task.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 56px; text-indent: -56px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">The @context following a task sets it's context.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 56px; text-indent: -56px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">@done means it's done.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 56px; text-indent: -56px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Any other words are plain text.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 56px; text-indent: -56px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 56px; text-indent: -56px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">I've been thinking of writing a todo app that had an export to taskpaper function.</span></font></div><div><br><div><div>On 14/02/2008, at 11:44 PM, Joseph Anthony Pasquale Holsten wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> Hello there,<div>I was wondering if anyone had looked at taskpaper? [1] They've got a vaguely yaml inspired format for todo lists.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>It reminded me of specdocs. I wonder how much work it would be to convert or build it in?</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Anyone else interested in seeing this?<br><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div>http:// Joseph Holsten .com</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>[1] <a href="http://hogbaysoftware.com/products/taskpaper">http://hogbaysoftware.com/products/taskpaper</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>rspec-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:rspec-users@rubyforge.org">rspec-users@rubyforge.org</a><br>http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users</blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>