ardunn/dex

an ultra-minimal productivity system

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dex's Issues

id/number (status) printouts should be identical length

Currently looks like

── a8 (ip) - thing 2
── a15 (todo) - thing 1

Should look like:

── a8  (ip)   - thing 2
── a15 (todo) - thing 1

format code with black + flake8

add more cli power (multiple task updates, incremental importance/effort/due)

should be able to:

dex task e* imp 4

To set all tasks in project e to importance 4. Also,

dex task e1,e4,e9 imp 5

Should set those specific tasks to imp 5. Also,

dex task e* imp +1

Should increment the importance of the tasks selected.

enh: incorporate due dates?

add ability to "hold until"

By default, things are held indefinitely

There should be the option to hold for n days

enh: note taking and organization system

maybe? add ability to tag notes with task ids and retrieve notes

enh: adding time required functionality + due date?

add a time_required or "effort" field
add a due date field
change "priority" to importance

compute priority $priority = priority(effort, due_date, importance)$
perhaps need to change around the algorithm

enh: add ability to filter by difficulty

Add ability to get tasks filtered by difficulty (renamed from priority)

use 3-4 letter reference instead of single letter for project codes

Have to be checked for uniqueness

Can be kept in .dex for mapping as per #28

E.g., task 223 from a project might be nawi223

bug: more informative error (or further processing) when dion init'd in folder containing non-project directories

currently, just has --ignore for each directory and fails with project.tasks call when trying to init non-project folder

This is especially problematic with .git/

but could either

• give more informative error
• automatically ignore these directories somehow

enh: document code

recurring tasks with high priority are always above other tasks

I.e., E5 I5 task recurring after 30 days will always appear prioritized above a E1 I1 task.

This might be fixed by just hiding the task until it would normally be overdue

If task is due in 5 days, and recurs every 10 days, and is completed, hide the task until 5 days from now

enh: consider dependency mapping

maybe too complicated, given all the task info needs to reside in filename or in file somewhere...

enh: make project prio an additive term

so you can +1 prio for an entire project, not set the entire project task set prio to 1, etc.

add files

Hi folks, is it possible to quickly add files (.pdf, .tex, .c etc) to a project? Can notes be associated with projects? with files?

need tests for cli

Can be a simple as running bash commands or a script using the examples and making sure they don't have an exit code of 1

bug: slow for some reason

overdue tasks should scale somewhat with the days-past-due

If task A is E1I1D-2 and task B is E1I1D-1, they should not have the same priority, task A should be prioritized because it is -2 days until due

It should not be linear tho

rename dionysus ---> dion

add an asterisk next to the names in the display output if that task has something written in the file besides dexcode

e.g., if "do thing A" has notes written in the md file besides the dexcode,

All projects
├── Project a: some-proj [2 held, 1 todo, 2 ip, 4 done, 2 abandoned]
│   ├── a8 (ip)* - do thing A [due in 20 days (2020-11-18), 4 importance, 4 effort, non-recurring]
│   ├── a11 (todo) - do thing B [due in 10 days (2020-11-08), 3 importance, 2 effort, non-recurring]
...

enh: add "renaming XXX" dialogue before rename

Before renaming, the dialogue should say

Renaming Task b1: "blah blah blah"
Enter new task name: <<input>>

use pytest instead of unittest

"-----" line overruns text and is not aware of terminal window width

example, on renames

Edit the task's content? (y/n) n

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Task created: e9 (todo) - some task [due in 150 days (2021-02-20), 5 importance, 2 effort, non-recurring]

display tasks by due and by importance in same nested format as projects

Like

├── Project b: project name [0 held, 1 todo, 0 ip, 6 done, 5 abandoned]
│   └── b3 (todo) - do thing [due in 335 days (2021-10-10), 1 importance, 1 effort, non-recurring]

Not

Due date color legend
├── Overdue or due today
├── Due within one week
├── Due within one month
└── Due in 1+ months

All tasks for today's projects only (ordered by due date)
├── h2 (hold) - do thing (depends on h5) [overdue by 44 days (2020-09-26), 4 importance, 2 effort, non-recurring]

enh: recurring tasks

make interactive via prompt-toolkit

bug: naming tasks with the numbers 1,2, or 3 in them replaces them in the name of the note....

Can be fixed by embedding the name as a particular delimited format in the filename.

some task viewing options dont work with -h option

E.g., dex tasks -h -e should show the short form tasks ordered by effort, but it shows the long form...

add persistent storage via .dex

enh: pypi + v1 (do this last)

cli needs docs/can be organized better

add notes and noteweb/zettlekasten, or remove feature altogether

enh: change name

such as "daycommander" or smth

no project new command

there is no way to create a new project through the CLI

dex info peak amplitudes are non-integer

All peaks should be normalized to the integer number of tasks

change name to edex

Efficient Day Executor

This name edex is unique on pypi

add command to generate an example schedule

dion example

bug: finish tests

add time recording mechanism

ie, when you exec a task it begins a timer. the timing data can go in .dex

bug: task ids change when creating/renaming/prioritizing/status-changing tasks

problem is that task and project ids are mutable...

adding/rming/renaming projects voids project ids in schedule

To reproduce:

1. create schedule containing subset of project ids for at least one day
2. create new project among existing projects or rm existing project
3. The schedule will no longer match the project ids, if they have been reassigne

read requirements with pip._internal

change abandoned color

make docs in readme

enh: code can probably be greatly simplified

instead of using a class structure?

perhaps try in a different language, e.g. haskell

package + setuptools from click

get rid of garbage files

add date created ordering instead of random

for final step in task ordering

enh: add "abandon" option for tasks

?

colorize + treeify output

can use builtins only, like:

import os, sys

if sys.platform.lower() == "win32":
    os.system('color')

# Group of Different functions for different styles
class style():
    BLACK = lambda x: '\033[30m' + str(x)
    RED = lambda x: '\033[31m' + str(x)
    GREEN = lambda x: '\033[32m' + str(x)
    YELLOW = lambda x: '\033[33m' + str(x)
    BLUE = lambda x: '\033[34m' + str(x)
    MAGENTA = lambda x: '\033[35m' + str(x)
    CYAN = lambda x: '\033[36m' + str(x)
    WHITE = lambda x: '\033[37m' + str(x)
    UNDERLINE = lambda x: '\033[4m' + str(x)
    RESET = lambda x: '\033[0m' + str(x)

print(style.YELLOW("Hello, ") + style.RESET("World!"))