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From: Tomasz bla Fortuna <blacomment@thera.be>
Subject: Re: Exporting Org Agenda -> todo.txt and todo.txt -> Org Files	+
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Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo <jorge.alfaro-murillo <at> yale.edu> writes:

> 
> Tim O'Callaghan writes:
> 
> > Does anyone else out there generate todo.txt files[1] from 
> > org/org-agenda? If you do, how do you do it. Or if not, do you 
> > have a good idea about how if it can be approximated in an 
> > agenda configuration?
> 
> You could write your own export back-end 
> (http://orgmode.org/worg/dev/org-export-reference.html). 
> Alternatively, you could modify org-agenda-custom-commands and use 
> C-x C-w to save the agenda view to a file.
> 
> Best,


I did in Python here: https://github.com/blaa/org2todotxt
Would probably be easier within emacs but i simply can't do sensible
cron/inotify within emacs and prefer external scripts.