Yokadi is a command-line oriented, SQLite powered, TODO list tool. It helps you organize all the things you have to do and you must not forget. It aims to be simple, intuitive and very efficient.
In Yokadi you manage projects, which contains tasks. At the minimum, a task has a title, but it can also have a description, a due date, an urgency or keywords. Keywords can be any word that help you to find and sort your tasks.
- Unix or Linux system. Mac OS X and Windows should work but have not been tested yet.
- Python 2.4 or higher.
- Sqlite module (included in Python since 2.5 release).
- iCalendar module (optional, for Yokadi Daemon only)
- setproctitle module (optional, for Yokadi Daemon only)
- SQLObject 0.9 or higher.
Here is an example of a short Yokadi session:
Start Yokadi:
./bin/yokadi
Using default database (/home/me/.yokadi.db)
Creating database
Added keyword '_severity'
Added keyword '_likelihood'
Added keyword '_bug'
Added keyword '_note'
Create your first task:
yokadi> t_add birthday Buy food and drinks
Project 'birthday' does not exist, create it (y/n)? y
Added project 'birthday'
Added task 'Buy food and drinks' (id=1)
Add two other tasks, you can use _ to refer to last project used:
yokadi> t_add _ Invite Bob
Added task 'Invite Bob' (id=2)
yokadi> t_add _ Invite Wendy
Added task 'Invite Wendy' (id=3)
List tasks for project "birthday":
yokadi> t_list birthday
birthday
ID |Title |U |S|Age |Due date
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 |Buy food and drinks |0 |N|1m |
2 |Invite Bob |0 |N|0m |
3 |Invite Wendy |0 |N|0m |
Once you have called Bob, you can mark task 2 as done:
yokadi> t_mark_done 2
Task 'Invite Bob' marked as done
yokadi> t_list birthday
birthday
ID |Title |U |S|Age |Due date
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 |Buy food and drinks |0 |N|2m |
3 |Invite Wendy |0 |N|1m |
Task 2 has not disappeared, but t_list skips done tasks by default. To list
all tasks use:
yokadi> t_list birthday --all
birthday
ID |Title |U |S|Age |Due date
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 |Buy food and drinks |0 |N|2m |
2 |Invite Bob |0 |D|1m |
3 |Invite Wendy |0 |N|1m |
To list only tasks marked as done today:
yokadi> t_list birthday --done today
birthday
ID |Title |U |S|Age |Due date
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2 |Invite Bob |0 |D|1m |
You may want to attach your grocery list to task 1. This can be done with
t_describe.
yokadi> t_describe 1
This will start the editor specified in $EDITOR (or vi if not set) to enter
a longer text, attached to the task.
You can now display details of task 1:
yokadi> t_show 1
Project: birthday
Title: Buy food and drinks
ID: 1
Created: 2009-01-09 08:57:33
Due: None
Status: new
Urgency: 0
Recurrence: None Keywords:
- Orange juice
- Coke
- Beer
- Cookies
- Pizzas
Note: t_show is not mandatory, just entering the task number will display its
details.
t_list indicates tasks which have a longer description with a * character:
yokadi> t_list birthday
birthday
ID |Title |U |S|Age |Due date
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 |Buy food and drinks *|0 |N|3m |
3 |Invite Wendy |0 |N|2m |
There is much more, we only scratched the surface, but this should get you
started. You can get a list of all commands by typing help and get the
detailed documentation of a command with help <command>.
When you execute multiple commands on the same task, you can use _ as a
shortcut to the last task id. Assuming you created a task like this:
yokadi> t_add home Buy chocolate
Added task 'Buy chocolate' (id=1069)
Then the following commands are equivalents (until you work on another task):
yokadi> t_edit 1069
yokadi> t_edit _
You can define due dates for your tasks with t_due. This can be done with a
relative or absolute date:
yokadi> t_due 21 +3d
Due date for task 'Buy chocolate' set to Sat Jul 11 17:16:20 2009
yokadi> t_due 21 23/07 10:30
Due date for task 'Buy chocolate' set to Thu Jul 23 10:30:00 2009
Due dates are shown by t_list. Due date is colored according to time left. If
you want to be reminded when a task is due, you can use the Yokadi Daemon for
that. See below for details.
If you have periodic tasks, you can tell it to Yokadi with t_recurs:
yokadi> t_recurs 1 weekly monday 21:30
yokadi> t_recurs 1 monthly 3 11:00
yokadi> t_recurs 1 monthly last saturday 11:00
yokadi> t_recurs 1 yearly 23/2 14:00
Type help t_recurs to see all possible syntax
Whenever you want to protect your todo list data, Yokadi provides a simple mechanism to encrypt a task title or description. This is useful when you store passwords like tasks or notes.
Let's encrypt a task and a note title with the -c option:
yokadi> t_add -c my_project this is a very secret task, don't tell anyone !
passphrase>
Added task '<... encrypted data...>' (id=1)
Yokadi asks you for a passphrase. Don't forget it! It is a global passphrase for this Yokadi database. Each time you will want to encrypt something, you will have to use this passphrase. For convenience, Yokadi will keep this passphrase in memory during your Yokadi session. If you are quite paranoiac and feel bad with that, don't panic, you can set the PASSPHRASE_CACHE option to 0 to disable passphrase cache:
yokadi> c_set PASSPHRASE_CACHE 0
Info: Parameter updated
If you list encrypted stuff but haven't given your passphrase in the current session, Yokadi won't bother you with asking for passphrase, but won't display data in a clear way:
yokadi> t_list
my_project
ID|Title |U |S|Age |Due date
--------------------------------------------------------------------
1 |<... encrypted data...>|0 |N|5m |
yokadi>
To reveal secret data, you have to use the --decrypt option and type your passphrase when prompted to:
yokadi> t_list --decrypt
passphrase>
my_project
ID|Title |U |S|Age |Due date
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 |this is a very secret task, don't tell anyone !|0 |N|6m |
yokadi>
Note: when you encrypt a task or note title, the description will be also encrypted.
t_apply is a very powerful function but sometimes you have to use it on numerous tasks. First, you can use task range like this:
yokadi> t_apply 1-3 t_urgency 10
Executing: t_urgency 1 10
Executing: t_urgency 2 10
Executing: t_urgency 3 10
yokadi>
But sometimes tasks are not consecutive and you would like to use wonderful t_list options to select your tasks. Here's the trick: each time you display tasks with t_list, Yokadi stores the id list in the magic keyword __ that you can give to t_apply like this:
yokadi> t_list @keyword myProject
(...)
yokadi> t_apply __ t_urgency 35
Oh, by the way, some Yokadi dev use the following alias which is quite self explicit:
yokadi> a_list
procrastinate => t_apply __ t_due +1d
By default, Yokadi creates a database in $HOME/.yokadi.db, but you can
specify an alternative location with the --db option.
A convenient way to start yokadi is by creating an alias in your .bashrc file
like this:
alias y=yokadi
The single letter y will start Yokadi with your favorite database from
wherever you are.
If you do not want to use the default database location, you can define
the YOKADI_DB env variable to point to your database:
export YOKADI_DB=$HOME/work/yokadi.db
By default, Yokadi will store input history in $HOME/.yokadi_history. This file
stores commands used in Yokadi for future use and reference.
If you do now want to use the default history file location, you can define
the YOKADI_HISTORY env variable to point to your history file:
export YOKADI_HISTORY=$HOME/.hist/yokadi_history
If you want to be automatically reminded of due tasks, you can use the Yokadi daemon.
The Yokadi daemon can be launched via desktop autostart services. In KDE, you
must create a symlink to yokadid (or a shell script that calls it) in $HOME/.kde/Autostart/.
ln -s `which yokadid` $HOME/.kde/Autostart/
The project is hosted on http://yokadi.github.com.
All discussion happens on Yokadi mailing-list, hosted by our friends from the Sequanux LUG. To join, visit http://sequanux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ml-yokadi.
You can also find some of us on #yokadi, on the Freenode IRC network.
Yokadi has been brought to you by:
- Aurélien Gâteau [email protected]: Developer, founder
- Sébastien Renard [email protected]: Developer
Other people contributed to Yokadi:
- Olivier Hervieu [email protected]: first working setup.py release
- Marc-Antoine Gouillart [email protected]: Windows port
- Kartik Mistry [email protected]: man pages
- Jonas Christian Drewsen [email protected]: quarterly recurrence feature