I'm just ~braindumping something to (hopefully) get it out of my head.
Part of what I like about shell is how squishy/pliable the language is. For a while I've had the nagging sense that it is really close to being an interesting format for a lot of different kinds of plain-text ~DSLs...
go to the store later
is a perfectly-good shell invocation. If you wanted some little task/TODO DSL, you could dive right in by writing