DayCaptain tools

Tooling for DayCaptain

Command line tools

There are two different command line tool technologies available, to support as many systems as possible: a Bash script and a JBang version.

todos-add: A shell script that adds a todo to the user’s inbox or a specific day or week.

It makes sense to create a shell alias for the command line scripts, to conveniently access them,
e.g. alias tda='todos-add'

Have a look at both versions in the jbang/ and bash/ folder. The Bash version requires curl, jq, and getopt, the JBang version requires only a JBang installation.

Bash

Usage and examples:

USAGE:
    todos-add [OPTIONS] <task name>
                           Creates a task with <task name>
    todos-add [OPTIONS] -
                           Reads the task names from stdin. Multiple lines result in separate tasks.

OPTIONS:
    -h, --help             Show this help
    -t, --today            Add the task to today's tasks
    -m, --tomorrow         Add the task to tomorrow's tasks
    -d, --date=DATE        Add the task to the DATE (formatted by ISO-8601, e.g. 2021-01-31)
    -W                     Add the task to this week
    -w, --week=WEEK        Add the task to the WEEK (formatted by ISO-8601, e.g. 2021-W07)
    -i, --inbox (Default)  Add the task to the backlog inbox

EXAMPLES:
    todos-add hello world
                           Creates a task 'hello world' in the backlog inbox
    todos-add -t hello world
                           Creates a task 'hello world' in today's task list
    todos-add -d 2022-01-01 hello world
                           Creates a task 'hello world' in the task list of Jan 1st, 2022
    cat todos.txt | todos-add -
                           Creates a task in the backlog inbox for each line in the todos.txt file