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Now there is no way to show archived todos (except setting done.txt it as todo.txt file). It would be good to add an option to load done.txt instead of todo.txt and disable all edit features.

Add support for threshold date. It exists in todo-txt library but is not exposed in todo_lib. Should work in the same way as due date does

Allow a user to track time spent for a todo

It seems that the library does not fully comply with the todo.txt format when a task is completed.

It does implement Rule 1:
A task is complete if it starts with an x (case-sensitive and lowercase) followed directly by a space.

But it does not respect Rule 2, regarding the position of the completion date and the handling of priority for completed tasks.

(A) 2023-08-20 Test #ex_1
x (A) 2023-08-20 2023-08-20 Test #ex_2
x 2023-08-20 2023-08-20 Test #ex_3
x 2023-08-20 2023-08-20 pri:A Test #ex_4
x 2023-08-20 2023-08-20 (A) Test #ex_5

Currently a pending task (ex_1) is completed by just appending x (ex_2), whereas the format seems to expect the completion and creation dates to follow the completion flags, with the priority either deleted (ex_3) or transformed in a key:value (ex_4). Some apps also support just reordering the priority (ex_5).

ttdl is my favourite command line tool for todo.txt (thanks!), but this issue makes files not interoperable with other tools, in particular on surfaces where ttdl is less practical, like mobile phones (e.g. SwiftoDo).

Ideally:

1. the library should implement the different completion modes and a default behaviour, for the loss of priority, key:value replacement or reordering of the priority, in both the done and undone functions.
2. ttdl should allow to configure the preferred completion mode.