Customisable Metadata Representations

[iarxm]

I would like to create a feature which aims to generalise the metadata representation for easily configurable formatting.

I've made a very simple personal todo system similar to todo.txt but with

• A modified identifier for todo objects at the beginning, and containing extra attribute signs like tags in the description line.
• Annotations on the task are contained as indented bullets under the task description line, like dependency tasks in taskwiki.
  • This way I find it more aesthetic to write notes on each task on the fly
• I have ctags configured to parse the todo items

Currently I just have a bunch of text files organising my todos into categories. I prefer this method over taskwarrior due to the ease of taking notes under the todo item, it feels more graceful. But I ultimately desire both to view and edit my tasks as they are, but have them stored in taskwarrior.

Taskwiki looks like a good bridge to this if the format of the tasks in the buffer could be easily configured.

To begin with, I would like to be able to make the annotation data print out as indented lines below each task, and to have such lines containing annotions modifiable via writing the buffer.

How might I go about this? Guidance would be much appreciated.

[iarxm]

Just had a look to see how to possibly implement annotations as indented lines underneath a task.

Looks like __str__ and from_line are where the changes would be required.

One possibility to achieve full customisation might be to integrate all the string concantenating methods in the various files including regex.py, into one file and have the format of each string type whether task or header etc, defined in one place. That could then define both the printing of the task string and the regex pattern with one sequence.

Add more buffer keys and modify from_line to update all possible changes that could be existing for a user's custom representation. And whichever other downstream changes are needed. Add a line count for the annotations, and add this count to something like 'added_at'