todo.txt-base(8)

🌸 NAME 🌸

todo.txt-base — it's giving Extension support for todo.txt packages ✨ like, that's the whole gig bestie 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

todo.txt-base {pre|post} <taskfile>

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so todo.txt-base is the little backstage baddie that adds extension hook support to todo.txt applications 🫶 she's not the main character, she's the stage manager, and honestly? iconic behavior 💅

Here's the tea ☕ — you hand her one of two words and she goes off:

• when you pass pre, she runs the scripts she finds in the /etc/todo.txt-base/prehooks/ directory 🏃‍♀️💨
• when you pass post, she runs the scripts she finds in the /etc/todo.txt-base/posthooks/ directory 🏃‍♀️💨

The scripts get run in alphabetical order, periodt 🔤 she's not doing chaos, she's doing order. Very demure, very mindful 🎀

And bestie, listen — each script gets a single argument, which is the full path to the todo.txt tasking file 📁 that way every hook knows exactly which file it's messing with, no guessing, no vibes-only behavior, iykyk 💜

lowkey important: the hooks run in alpha order, so if you're naming your scripts, just know that <yellow>01-thing</yellow> comes before <yellow>02-other-thing</yellow> and your naming choices are literally your destiny 💀✨

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the whole friend group, fr fr 🫂

• vitodo(1)
• edittodo(1)
• listtodo(1)
• todo.txt(1)
• tdt(1)
• cdtodo(1)
• backuptodo(1)
• justone(1)

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and that's the whole page babes 🎀 this was the System Manager's Manual version of todo.txt-base(8), dated July 2026 — go forth and hook responsibly bestie, ily 💖✨🦋