You might want to point out that this does not work under 1.8.* Ruby.

j-0.5.1/lib/j.rb:129: undefined (?...) sequence: /(?<status>(TODO|DONE))\s(?<title>.+)\Z/ (SyntaxError)

Thanks for pointing that out. Named regexp catching isn't supported in ruby 1.8. I'll update the gem with 1.8 support.

Wrote this to flex my ruby skills, There's nothing special about it except the following:

* Decorated text * Marking tasks as done and deleting them is easier with a one digit key instead of 3 digit key.

If you already have text files with tasks in the following format:

<status> <task>

then you can just rename it to .todo and fireup j