Tod

A tiny todoist CLI program. Takes simple input and dumps it in your inbox or another project. Takes advantage of natural language processing to assign due dates, tags, etc.

Will ask for your Todoist API token on the first run, and your data in JSON format in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/tod.cfg. This defaults to:

• ~/.config/tod.cfg on Linux
• ~/Library/Application Support/tod.cfg on Mac
• No idea about Windows, sorry!

Install from Crates.io

Install Rust

```bash

Linux and MacOS

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh ```

Install Tod

bash cargo install tod

Install from AUR (for Arch-based Linux distributions)

```bash

Use yay or another AUR helper

yay tod-bin ```

Install from GitHub

Install Rust

Clone the project

bash git clone git@github.com:alanvardy/tod.git cd tod ./test.sh # run the tests cargo build --release

You can then find the binary in /target/release/

Usage

Start with the help flag to get the latest commands

```bash

tod -h

A tiny unofficial Todoist client

Usage: tod [OPTIONS] [COMMAND]

Commands: task
project
help Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options: -o, --config Absolute path of configuration. Defaults to $XDGCONFIGHOME/tod.cfg -q, --quickadd ... Create a new task with natural language processing. -h, --help Print help -V, --version Print version

tod task -h

Usage: tod task

Commands: create Create a new task list List all tasks in a project next Get the next task by priority complete Complete the last task fetched with the next command help Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options: -h, --help Print help -V, --version Print version

```

• Add your most commonly used projects, the project ID is the last series of numbers in the URL. If the project name includes spaces, wrap the project name with quotes.
• You can use natural language processing such as dates priority etc when sending to inbox, but not to the projects due to current limitations.
• Items are ranked by points and the first is returned:
  • Item is overdue: 150
  • The date is today with no time: 100
  • The date is today with time in next or last 15 min: 200
  • No date: 80
  • Not recurring: 50
  • Item has no priority: 2
  • Priority 1: 1
  • Priority 2: 3
  • Priority 3: 4

Examples

```bash

Quickly create a task

tod -q Buy more milk today

Create a new task (you will be prompted for content and project)

tod task create

Create a task in a project

tod task create --content "Write more rust" --project code

Get the next task for a project

tod task next

Go through tasks with an interactive prompt, completing them in order of importance one at a time.

tod project process

Complete the last "next task" and get another

tod task complete && tod task next

Get your work schedule

tod tasks list --scheduled --project work

Get all tasks for work

tod tasks list --project work ```

Disabling spinners

Find the line in your tod.cfg that reads "spinners": null and change the value to false.

Why I made this

I am a developer who uses Todoist to reduce stress and cognitive overhead, by delegating things that a machine does well to a machine. This CLI application scratches some very specific itches for me, and I hope that it may be of use to others as well!

Some points around my general strategy:

• Do one thing at a time, multi-tasking is an illusion (see tod project process)
• Capture all tasks immediately with the inbox and add detail later (see tod project empty, schedule, and prioritize)
• Make all your tasks "actions", concrete tasks that can be acted on. Add phone numbers, hyperlinks etc to your tasks
• Batch process like things as infrequently as possible to lower context switching, i.e. clear your email inbox once per day, spam once per week.
• Remember that the objective is to get the important things done with less friction, not just get more things done.
• Further to the above point, make sure to leave yourself margin. It is in the spaces between the periouds work that we recover and get our best ideas.
• Less projects are better than more projects
• Use projects as "modes" where you only work in one at a time

Related projects

• Alfred Workflow