ARCHIVED

I did not follow through enough for this project to deserve its own repository I feel. Instead I put the files in the Small_Projects repository, and I'm archiving this repo for now.

todoist_taskmaker

A python script for automatically creating multiple todoist tasks that follow a pattern. For example with task names such as

• "Buy milk", "Buy cheese", "Buy bread".
• "Review lecture 1", "Review lecture 2", etc.

How to use

1. Download and run the file main.py in the terminal.
2. Follow the command line instructions.
3. Verify that the tasks have been created.
4. Profit.

Example usage

Here is an example usage of the script. The user wants to create 3 tasks with the respective contents/titles "Attend lecture 1", "Attend lecture 2", "Attend lecture 3". They download the repo, and run main.py. They may also need to install some of the dependencies: tabulate, regex.

Access token

The user is prompted to give an access token, which can be found under your Todoist profile settings > Integrations > Developer. The example token given below is just keysmash.

-------------------------------------------------------------------
Hear ye, hear ye: The todoist taskmaker program has been initiated.
Please provide the information required to create your tasks.
-------------------------------------------------------------------

Please specify your personal API token. It can be found under settings in your profile.      
If the access token is already specified in an .env variable; leave this empty (press ENTER).
Access token>91838017839718938918193
-------------------------------------------------------------------

Content

The user is now prompted to specify the content (text) of the tasks. The content pattern is specified, with the numbers replaced with a "fill variable" AAA.

Please specify the content (task name) of your tasks.
If you want to make multiple tasks with varying keywords, mark the location of the keywords with 3 identical uppercase letter, like "XXX", "YYY", or "ZZZ".
You can use multiple keywords in order to cycle through different sets of values.
Content (Task name)>Atttend lecture AAA     
-------------------------------------------------------------------

Fill values

The user is now prompted to specify the "fill values" that iteratively should replace the fill variable AAA. The user specifies the lecture numbers "1,2,3". After this, the script prints a table of the tasks, and then sends requests to the API to create the tasks. Notice that for now all tasks are given priority 1 (lowest), label Studying, and due date "today".

Please specify the values of the respective fill variables below.
Separate the values with a comma, no space, for example:
1,2,3
Milk,Cheese,Bread

Please specify what values to iteratively replace AAA with.
fill values>1,2,3
-------------------------------------------------------------------
+------------------+----------+------------+-------------+
| content          | label    |   priority | duestring   |
+==================+==========+============+=============+
| Attend lecture 1 | Studying |          1 | today       |
+------------------+----------+------------+-------------+
| Attend lecture 2 | Studying |          1 | today       |
+------------------+----------+------------+-------------+
| Attend lecture 3 | Studying |          1 | today       |
+------------------+----------+------------+-------------+