A basic command line task manager
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Introduction
Move your ToDo’s to ToDone’s!
ToDonePy is a command-line interface for managing your to do list. It provides a root command, to, and three subcommands:
Docs and Code
The documentation lives at https://ToDonePy.readthedocs.io/ .
The code lives at https://github.com/rbpatt2019/ToDonePy/ .
Installation
This project has been released on PyPI, so it can be installed with pip:
pip install -U ToDonePy
Alternatively, you can install the project manually by cloning the repo, and using the included Makefile.
git clone https://github.com/rbpatt2019/ToDonePy/
make install
If you would like to contribute to development, the install instructions are slightly different. Please see the section on contributing.
Usage
The base command to
The base command to has a few useful features of its own. To see what version of the command you are using, call:
to --version
As with any good command-line tool, you can get some basic help by calling:
to --help
Under the hood, to creates the context object that holds the information on the file you use for tracking you’re TODOs. If you don’t specify a file to use, it will default to $HOME/TODO.csv. If you would like to specify a different file to use, than call the command with the --file/-f flag like so:
to --file /path/to/your/TODO.csv subcommand
Regardless of whether you use the default or not, calling to with any of the subcommands - do, doing, or done - will check to see if the file exists. If it does exist, to then pass the path on to the subcommand. If it doesn’t exist, then to creates an empty file which it then passes on to the subcommand.
As a final note, it is worth emphasising that the contex object is only created when to is invoked with a subcommand. So, after a clean install, calling to --help or to --version will NOT create your TODO.csv file, even if you pass the --file/-f flag. However, call to do, and it will pop into existence.
Adding new tasks with to do
To begin tracking your TODOs, call the command as follows:
to do task rank
to is the base command. It must be invoked to use any part of the tool. The do subcommand is how you add tasks to your TODO.csv. After to do, there are two mandatory arguments: the task and the rank. The first argument is task. Here, specify what it is you need to do. If your task takes more than one word to describe, than you need to include it in quotes. rank should be a number indicating how important this task is. 1 is very important, 2 less so, etc. Though nothing explicitly bans you from using as many ranks as you want, I’d reccomed using 3 for high, medium, and low priority. So, if you wanted to remind yourself to write an abstract for that paper you’ve been delaying, call:
to do 'Write my abstract' 1
This will create TODO.csv if it doesn’t already exist, and add ‘Write my abstract’ with a rank of one to it.
If you were to manually open the TODO.csv file, say with vim, you’d see:
1,Write my abstract,YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
Nothing fancy, just a plain csv with rank in the first column, task in the second, and date/time corresponding to when you added the task. In fact, you could edit TODO.csv manually, and then call to doing to see your change!
Keeping track of tasks with to doing
Once you’ve added some TODOs to your list, you need to make sure you stay on top of them. To see what needs to be done, call:
to doing
This will echo your tasks to the terminal. In the future, there are plans to add an --edit/-e flag here, so you can directly edit your TODO.csv.
At the moment, to done just lists the tasks in the order you added them. In the future, it will also be able to sort by rank.
Completing your tasks with to done
After the end of a productive work session, you’ve completed a task from your list. Boom! Time well spent. To remove it from your TODO.csv, call:
to done task
As with to do, if your task is more than one word, you need to enclose it in quotes, like so:
to done 'Write my abstract'
Under the hood, to done creates a temp file, then performs a string match to each line of your TODO.csv. If task is not in a line, that line is written to the temp file. If task is in a line, that line is skipped. This way, the temp file ends up containing only those tasks that aren’t completed. Once every line is checked, the temp file replaces TODO.csv with its contents. Task deleted!
Recent Changes
Please see the CHANGELOG
Next Steps
Add a date stamp for to do
Add a sort function for to doing to all user to return by date or priority
Add an edit function, likely to base to command, for editing of TODO.csv
Continue to expand README and doumentation.
Thank Yous
Click for making an excellent package with absolutely stellar documentation.
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