One of the most powerful Geeklets! All you need is a script to get the information, then you can display it on your desktop. GeekTool will execute the script and display the output the way you want it.
If you have a list of work that you need to perform in whole day, and you want to put that list on your desktop, todo list with Geek tool will help you out. By doing so, you could easily remind yourself which tasks you have done and which are remaining.
This article will tell you how to set up a desktop to do list with GeekTool in MAC OS X. To know deeply, continue to read below
Steps
Geektool Scripts
- Download GeekTool from the link given below and install on your MAC OS X.
- To create a file having work list, go to any Text editor and type todos of whole day. Save file on desktop with the name “todo.txt”.
- To make GeekTool configuration, open GeekTool. You will see three files on left panel of GeekTool application which are File, Image and Shell. These files are called Geeklets. To make a new Geeklets, you can simply drag them onto desktop. Drag “Shell” file to make todo list.
- When you open the new Geeklets, it will show various options to configure Geeklets.
- As we are using terminal command known as “cat”, so write “
cat ~/Desktop/todo.txt” in Command text field. After completing these steps, your todo list should be displayed on desktop. That’s it!
Geektool Geeklets
- Note that Geeklets can be in multiple groups - as long as one of the is enabled, the Geeklet will be shown. Use the menubar item. GeekTool now has a menubar item that you can enable from the preference pane. From here you can enable and disable groups, force a refresh on all Geeklets, disable GeekTool, and access the preference pane.
- Nov 19, 2009 Geeklets is a site run by the UK based MacOSXTips, and it allows for users to submit their own GeekTool scripts and rate others. It’s newly launched so there’s a limited supply of scripts and vote data to work with, but this is definitely going to be a great repository for all us GeekTool fans.
- Another great tool is Geeklets on MacOSXTips. These are small little files that contain all of the information needed to run on your desktop. Anything your can do in Terminal will work with Geektool (except the self updating commands, of course). To get the inspiration following below is an image of what I have on my desktop.