What App Can I Use To Edit Todo Txt With Tags And Priorities?

I've fought with this exact problem before and it feels like trying to shove a square peg into a round hole — Google Tasks simply doesn't have a native 'tags' field like todo.txt expects. That said, I found a few practical, low-friction ways to move your items across without losing the meaning of your +projects and @contexts. The core idea I use is: decide how you want to query tasks later (by project, by context, or both), then encode tags in a place Google Tasks will keep and let you search — typically the task notes or the title — and optionally map projects to separate task lists so you get an extra organizational layer. Practically, I recommend this workflow: back up your todo.txt, then run a small script that parses each line for the usual todo.txt parts (completion mark, priority like (A), dates, +project tags, @context tags, and extras such as due:YYYY-MM-DD). For each parsed line I create a Google Tasks task where the title is the human-friendly part (stripped of + and @ tags if you prefer), and the notes field contains a single canonical line that preserves everything: original raw line, plus a short metadata snippet like 'projects:+proj1,+proj2 contexts:@home,@errands'. If you prefer project-level separation, create one Google Tasks list per +project and insert the task into all relevant lists (or the primary project list and then duplicate or tag contexts in notes). Example mapping choices: project -> task list (good for inbox-style view by project); project -> prefix in title or notes (good if you want one combined list and fast search); contexts -> notes or title prefix (searchable in Google Tasks UI and through Gmail sidebar). If you want a hands-on script, I used Python with the google-api-python-client. The parsing is straightforward regex or tiny parser: extract tokens starting with '+' or '@', pick up due:YYYY-MM-DD keys, then build a tasks.insert() payload with 'title', 'notes' and 'due' fields. Test on a handful of lines first. Also watch recurring tasks and advanced todo.txt extensions — Google Tasks has limited recurrence support, so I usually add a note like 'rrule:...' and adjust manually later. The small effort to keep the original raw line in notes saved me countless times when I needed to recover context or re-import differently. If you want, I can sketch a minimal script template or a checklist to run this safely on your file — it made the migration feel manageable for me, and I sleep better knowing nothing important got lost.