Task: Write a Blogger to-do list manager

I do my thinking aloud here and on other blogs, and one of the perennial problems I have with that is that Blogger has no particular way of dealing with task lists. (Boy, that sounds stupid, doesn't it?)

Seriously - a blog is a fantastic way of entering tagged text that could be scanned for tasks, progress notifications, and even completion of tasks in a structured way. Remember how I said Blogger has an API? Well, how about the following scheme, then?

1. Introduce a task by prefixing it in the title, like "Task: Write a Blogger to-do list manager". Then introduce the tag just by making up a tag for it, e.g. "todo list manager". The tag can now be a miniblog for the task, you see - for free.

2. Progress reports are just posted using the tag. Optionally, if you put a percentage in there, you could use it as a completion estimate.

3. Completion is also flagged in the title, with the word "complete".

4. The current to-do list can now be generated automagically with a simple script you run whenever the blog is updated (or periodically, or whatever). I'd personally write it as a Perl script against the Blogger API run on my local machine.

5. If you post any post named "To-do list" or something along those lines, the to-do list can be updated into it (say, at the end, or wherever a given comment appears). The current to-do list can link back to old to-do lists of historical interest, and you can just post another one whenever you feel it's appropriate.

6. The updater can even make sure that the current to-do list post is the one linked from a sidebar highlight. You could even put your to-do list on the sidebar (perhaps in an abbreviated form).

So. I should do this as soon as my vacation starts. And on that note, I'm going to get back to work to hasten that very day.