A lightweight, no-frills todo list manager for capturing, tracking, and completing daily tasks within your workspace.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install simple-todo-manager
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install simple-todo-manager using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
Prefer to download?
Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is Simple Todo Manager?
The Simple Todo Manager is a lightweight, low-overhead utility designed to streamline task tracking directly within your workspace. As one of the most practical Openclaw Skills, it enables your AI agent to manage a local, Markdown-based todo list seamlessly. It removes the friction from daily planning, allowing you to capture ideas, structure tasks, and clear items from your list using simple natural language commands.
By keeping your task list in a standard Markdown file, this skill ensures maximum portability and transparency. Your AI coding agent can update your progress, prioritize pending tasks, and automatically archive completed ones, making it an essential addition to your personal workflow suite under the Openclaw Skills ecosystem.
Simple Todo Manager Use Cases
- Quick task capture during brainstorming sessions or active development cycles.
- Structured daily planning to keep focus on high-priority objectives.
- Automated task prioritization (high, medium, low) to organize backlogs dynamically.
- Tracking and archiving project milestones directly inside your developer workspace.
How Simple Todo Manager Works
- Task Initialization: The skill reads the configured Markdown todo file, creating a new one with a default header if it does not already exist.
- Command Processing: The AI parses natural language commands to add, complete, list, or remove tasks.
- Priority & Formatting: Added tasks are automatically formatted with timestamps and priority levels (e.g.,
- [ ] [PRIORITY] Task description (added YYYY-MM-DD)). - Task Listing & Sorting: Pending tasks are sorted dynamically by priority (high > medium > low), followed by completed tasks.
- Completion & Archiving: When marking a task as done, the status changes to
- [x]with a completion timestamp, triggering automatic archiving cycles if configured.
Simple Todo Manager Setup
To enable this task manager among your active Openclaw Skills, follow these configuration steps:
- Ensure your OpenClaw instance is running and has write permissions to your local workspace directory.
- Create or edit your configuration file (typically
claw.yamlor equivalent) and append the following configuration block:
# Todo file location (relative to workspace root)
todo_file: ./todo.md
# Default priority for new tasks: low | medium | high
default_priority: medium
# Auto-archive completed tasks after N days (0 = never)
auto_archive_days: 7
- Restart your OpenClaw instance to load the new settings.
openclaw reload
Simple Todo Manager Data Schema & Taxonomy
The Simple Todo Manager uses a single Markdown file to organize task data. Below is the file format and metadata taxonomy used:
Task Format
Each task is formatted as a Markdown checkbox list item:
- [ ] [PRIORITY] Task description (added YYYY-MM-DD)
Field Specifications
| Parameter | Description | Valid Values |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Completion status of the task | [ ] (pending), [x] (completed) |
| Priority | Urgency of the task | [HIGH], [MEDIUM], [LOW] |
| Description | The core task details | Any alphanumeric string |
| Metadata | Timestamps representing lifecycle events | (added YYYY-MM-DD), (completed YYYY-MM-DD) |
Simple Todo Manager Advanced Features
- Automatic Priority Sorting: Intelligently groups and sorts tasks, placing higher priority pending tasks at the top of the interface.
- Configurable Auto-Archiving: Automatically sweeps and archives completed tasks after a user-defined number of days to keep the file clean.
- Disambiguation Safeguards: Prevents destructive actions by requiring explicit user confirmation before deletion or when multiple task matches are found.
- Seamless Markdown Portability: Writes standard Markdown syntax, making it compatible with Obsidian, VS Code, or any other Markdown reader in your Openclaw Skills workflow.
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