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TobTahc User Guide

TobTahc is a task management chatbot that helps you keep track of your todos, deadlines and events. With a simple command-line style interface and persistent storage, TobTahc makes task management effortless.

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Quickstart

  1. Download the jar file from here.

  2. Run the following command within the enclosing folder of the JAR file.

    java -jar tobtahc.jar
  3. Type commands in the text field and press Enter or click Send.
  4. The data directory is for storing your tasks.

Program Options:

Usage: java -jar tobtahc.jar [options]

Options:
  -g, --gui, /gui      Start the application in GUI mode (default)
  -c, --cli, /cli      Start the application in CLI mode
  -h, --help, /?       Show this help message

Features

Adding a ToDo: todo

Add a simple task w/o any date or time.

Format: todo <task description>

Example: todo read book

Adding a Deadline: deadline

Add a task with a due time.

Format: deadline <task description> /by <due time in format y-M-d HH:mm>

Example: deadline return book /by 2019-8-5 15:00

Adding an Event: event

Add a task with both start and end times.

Format: event <task description> /from <start time in format y-M-d HH:mm> /to <end time in format y-M-d HH:mm>

Example: event project meeting /from 2019-8-6 14:00 /to 2019-8-6 16:00

Listing All Tasks: list

Display all tasks in the task list.

Format: list

Task Status Symbols:

Marking a Task as Done: mark

Mark a task as completed.

Format: mark <task no.>

Example: mark 1

Marking a Task as Not Done: unmark

Mark a task as incomplete.

Format: unmark <task no.>

Example: unmark 1

Deleting a Task: delete

Remove a task from the task list.

Format: delete <task no.>

Example: delete 1

Finding Tasks: find

Search for tasks containing the keyword. The search is case-sensitive and matches any part of the task description.

Format: find <keyword>

Example: find book

Clearing All Tasks: clear

Completely wipe the task list.

Format: clear

Listing all Deadlines due before or on a certain date: before or on

List all Deadlines that are due before or on a certain date.

Format: before or on <date in format yyyy-MM-dd>

Example: before or on 2019-08-06

Listing all Events occuring on a certain date: occurs on

List all Events that occur on a certain date.

Format: occurs on <date in format yyyy-MM-dd>

Example: occurs on 2019-08-12

List all Tasks in a sorted way: sort

List all tasks in a sorted way:

  1. All Deadlines that are not done, sorted by due time.
  2. All Events that are not done, sorted by start time.
  3. All ToDos that are not done.
  4. All tasks that are done.

Format: sort

Exiting the Application: bye

Exit TobTahc.

Format: bye

TobTahc just echos anything that is not a command.

And sometimes, TobTahc would have a flipped response (like how TobTahc is flipped ChatBot) to add some variety.

Data Storage

TobTahc saves all your tasks in data/tasks.txt. You may take a look at data/tasks-example.txt for an example tasks.txt.

Date and Time Format

As you can see in the previous section, some commands ask you to input a date time in format y-M-d HH:mm, while some commands ask you to input a date in format yyyy-MM-dd. And TobTahc is not very flexible on date time format, so if you see that TobTahc cannot understand your command, please check your date time format accordingly.

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