y - the existentialist task manager

"Heeey - all I have to type is 'y'! Hey, Miss doesn't-find-me-sexually-attractive-anymore, I just tripled my productivity!"

– Homer Simpson

Features

• Ask yourself: "y the hell am I doing this?" with every new task
• Semi-functional bash completion
• Not-really-intuitive CLI interface
• Super outdated file-based database
• Automatic Git commits on Feierabend (and push if a remote is set)
• Easy procrastination (you will be insulted though)
• Positive reinforcement if you get stuff done
• Tasks can be marked as important if prepended with ! (exclamation mark and a space)
• Each task is a text file, so additional information can be stored for each task
• If a task contains text, its first line is shown along with the list of tasks
• Made with 😤 in Frankfurt am Nein

Usage

• y -> show all tasks

• y do (today|tomorrow|later) Fix printer -> Create new task, defaults to 'today', or move to today if it exists tomorrow or later

• y done Fix printer -> mark task as done

• y do Fix printer (if task already exists) -> open task in Vim to add notes (absolutely not compatible with any other editor, nu-uh, sorry) (not sorry)

• y procrastinate Fix printer -> move task to tomorrow

• y superprocrastinate Fix printer -> move task to backlog

• y prioritize Fix printer -> toggle mark task as important

• y later -> take a look at your backlog

• y feierabend -> done for the day

Setup

• Clone to your home directory
• Run setup.sh

Currently only Bash is supported.

Known issues

• "tomorrow" directory is always empty when committing the data dir, so git doesn't track it, it can't really: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/115983/how-can-i-add-an-empty-directory-to-a-git-repository. When cloning a data directory from a remote, "tomorrow" isn't there, causing errors.
  • Either hack the empty dir into the repo
  • or modify setup.sh to run after cloning, only to create the dir without breaking anything else

Nothing, this piece of software is perfect®

To do

Autocompletion would be neat (and should work, because that's the only reason this thing is file based)

Done

Git integration would be neat (e.g. automatic commits on feierabend)