I found Todo.txt by Gina Trapani, randomly last weekend and have been playing with it all week. Todo.txt is a todo list written in shell script. It should run fine under any system that supports a Unix like shell… Linux, OS X, Cygwin etc.
At any given time I have a half dozen post-it pads going with todo lists, usually the things that have to get done TODAY! Todo.txt is so simple to use I’ve misplaced most of my post-it pads (still need paper for the grocery list). 
Some examples:
todo.sh add This is my first task
todo.sh add Another task
todo.sh list
02 Another task
01 This is my first task
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TODO: 2 tasks in /Users/damonp/etc/todo.txt.
02 Another task
01 This is my first task
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TODO: 2 tasks in /Users/damonp/etc/todo.txt.
Set task number one to the highest priority, A.
todo.sh pri 1 A
todo.sh list
01 (A) This is my first task
02 Another task
--
TODO: 2 tasks in /Users/damonp/etc/todo.txt.
todo.sh list
01 (A) This is my first task
02 Another task
--
TODO: 2 tasks in /Users/damonp/etc/todo.txt.
I haven’t gotten much further than adding, prioritizing and marking off items, but the builtin help shows options for archiving, reporting, appending, prepending and deleting items.
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