#!/usr/bin/env bash # # task-review-staleness.sh — surface top-level todo.org tasks by review age. # # Usage: # task-review-staleness.sh # count mode (default) # task-review-staleness.sh --list # list mode # # Count mode prints a single integer: the number of qualifying tasks that # are stale. Shared by the wrap-up health check (threshold 30) and the # startup reminder (threshold 7) so both count the same way. # # List mode prints up to qualifying tasks, oldest-reviewed first, # one per line, tab-separated as: \t\t. # The task-review workflow uses it to pick the batch to walk each day. # # A qualifying task is a depth-2 (**) heading carrying a TODO/DOING/VERIFY # keyword and an [#A]/[#B]/[#C] priority cookie. DONE/CANCELLED tasks, # deeper headings, and cookie-less headings are not review units. # # A task is stale (count mode), and sorts oldest (list mode), when its # :LAST_REVIEWED: property is missing or unparseable (NIL sorts first), or # when its age strictly exceeds the threshold (age > N days; age == N is # still fresh). set -euo pipefail die() { echo "task-review-staleness: $*" >&2; exit 2; } mode=count if [ "${1:-}" = "--list" ]; then mode=list shift fi [ "$#" -eq 2 ] || die "usage: $(basename "$0") [--list] " todo_file="$1" num="$2" [ -f "$todo_file" ] || die "no such file: $todo_file" [[ "$num" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]] || die "expected a non-negative integer, got: $num" # Emit one line per qualifying top-level task: \t\t, # where is its LAST_REVIEWED date or "NONE". Body prose is ignored; # only the property drawer between a qualifying heading and the next heading # is scanned. extract_tasks() { awk ' function flush() { if (in_task) printf "%s\t%s\t%s\n", hline, (have_lr ? lr : "NONE"), heading } /^\*+ / { flush() have_lr = 0; lr = "" if ($0 ~ /^\*\* (TODO|DOING|VERIFY) \[#[ABC]\]/) { in_task = 1; hline = NR; heading = $0 sub(/[ \t]*$/, "", heading) } else { in_task = 0 } next } in_task && /^[ \t]*:LAST_REVIEWED:[ \t]*/ { v = $0 sub(/^[ \t]*:LAST_REVIEWED:[ \t]*/, "", v) sub(/[ \t]*$/, "", v) lr = v; have_lr = 1 next } END { flush() } ' "$todo_file" } if [ "$mode" = "list" ]; then # Prefix each task with a sort key (the review date, or 0000-00-00 when # missing or unparseable so it sorts oldest), order by key then file line, # take the requested count, and drop the key column. extract_tasks | awk -F'\t' -v OFS='\t' ' { key = ($2 ~ /^[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]$/) ? $2 : "0000-00-00" print key, $1, $2, $3 } ' | sort -t"$(printf '\t')" -k1,1 -k2,2n | awk -v n="$num" 'NR <= n' | cut -f2- exit 0 fi # Count mode. # Normalize "today" to local midnight so a task reviewed exactly N days ago # measures as N, not N-and-a-fraction. LAST_REVIEWED dates parse to midnight # already, so both ends of the diff sit on day boundaries. today_epoch=$(date -d "$(date +%F)" +%s) count=0 while IFS=$'\t' read -r hline value heading; do if [ "$value" = "NONE" ]; then count=$((count + 1)) continue fi # Unparseable date → treat as NIL (stale). if ! rev_epoch=$(date -d "$value" +%s 2>/dev/null); then count=$((count + 1)) continue fi # Round to nearest day so a DST hour can't shift a boundary task. age_days=$(( (today_epoch - rev_epoch + 43200) / 86400 )) if [ "$age_days" -gt "$num" ]; then count=$((count + 1)) fi done < <(extract_tasks) echo "$count"