I like to keep my home directory pretty small ideally. Just what I'm currently working on, plus maybe one or two permanent directories like docs or the like.
But, it accumulates! Just like a real desk, it gets covered in junk and needs cleaned off.
hitlist (source] is a small program I wrote today to make the process of cleaning it up more fun.
It functions similarly to the classic unix command watch. The idea is that you have a list of problems, and cross them off one by one.
- Cleaning up your home directory by running
hitlist -- ls ~ - Complete your daily todo list with
hitlist -- grep '[ ]' ~/documents/TODO.txt - Fix a list of compilation errors with... okay, I haven't figured this one out yet. But it seems doable!
Unlike a real list, it "crosses off" problems for you, once they disappear from the command output, and lists how long you took to solve each one.
You could use this as a race. Or you could do some analysis after one run, and decide "actually, this took too long to fix--next time I'll give up on a bug if it takes more than 5 minutes to solve."
On-screen output is optionally saved to a file on exit.
