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diff --git a/content/projects/uebersicht-todoist/demo.jpg b/content/projects/uebersicht-todoist/demo.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..93bea1c --- /dev/null +++ b/content/projects/uebersicht-todoist/demo.jpg diff --git a/content/projects/uebersicht-todoist/index.md b/content/projects/uebersicht-todoist/index.md index 34bd4bc..d30c0ae 100644 --- a/content/projects/uebersicht-todoist/index.md +++ b/content/projects/uebersicht-todoist/index.md @@ -1,16 +1,143 @@ --- -title: "Todoist Desktop Viewer" +title: "Todoist Task Viewer" date: 2023-10-23T23:20:05-04:00 -draft: true +draft: --- -Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, officia excepteur ex fugiat reprehenderit enim -labore culpa sint ad nisi Lorem pariatur mollit ex esse exercitation amet. Nisi -anim cupidatat excepteur officia. Reprehenderit nostrud nostrud ipsum Lorem est -aliquip amet voluptate voluptate dolor minim nulla est proident. Nostrud -officia pariatur ut officia. Sit irure elit esse ea nulla sunt ex occaecat -reprehenderit commodo officia dolor Lorem duis laboris cupidatat officia -voluptate. Culpa proident adipisicing id nulla nisi laboris ex in Lorem sunt -duis officia eiusmod. Aliqua reprehenderit commodo ex non excepteur duis sunt -velit enim. Voluptate laboris sint cupidatat ullamco ut ea consectetur et est -culpa et culpa duis. +Back in 2018, I daily drove a mac and I really wanted my daily tasks +to always be visible. Having learned about the uebersicht desktop app, +I decided to write a task visualizer (available offline) that interacted +with the Todoist API. + +[Todoist][1] is pretty great, it's an extensible task management software which +runs on a variety of platforms: Desktop mac, windows, and linux, browser email +extensions, iOS & Android. Up until very recently, I have continued to use this +task manager in my daily life (albeit with different tools & plugins such as +[Todoist.Nvim][2]. As of the writing of this short article I now use a more +custom workflow with [neorg][3]. But I still consider this little tool I built +to be quite nifty as many people actually downloaded it and daily drove it. + +Back then my train of thought was as follows: + +> if I don't see a task, I might never do it. + +Having my tasks always there on my Desktop seemed like a great way to get more +productive. To accomplish this, I discovered a nifty little tool called +[uebersicht][4] which allows to render coffeescript snippets directly on the +mac's desktop (which I daily drove at the time). Althought the rendering was +done with coffeescript, it did allow to run the logical of my snippet in +whichever language I prefered. As I was only beggining to code a bit more +seriously, I chose to do that part in a language I knew, Python. + +These were the goals I initially set for this little applet: + +- It must show a specific project (since the inbox is a project in itself) +- It must not break whenever the computer comes offline +- Task priorities must be visible through the color of the task + +And so, this is what my python code looked like: + +```python +# -*-coding:utf-8 -* +import online +import pickle +import os + +def main(): + with open('todoist_API.txt') as f: + # Token must be the first line + token = f.readline() + + if online.main() == False: + with open("todoist.cache", "rb") as myFile: + loaded_cache = pickle.load(myFile) + # Rank used to display a numbered list + rank = 0 + for i in loaded_cache: # all the items in todoist + if i['project_id'] == 170911352: # if item is in "inbox" + if i['checked'] == 0: # if item is incomplete + if i['priority'] == 1: + pri = "<p class='priority4'>" + elif i['priority'] == 2: + pri = "<p class='priority3'>" + elif i['priority'] == 3: + pri = "<p class='priority2'>" + elif i['priority'] == 4: + pri = "<p class='priority1'>" + rank += 1 + print(pri, "<b>", rank, '- </b>', + i['content'], "</p>") # name and id + + + elif online.main() == True: + from todoist.api import TodoistAPI + api = TodoistAPI(token) + api.sync() # initial sync + + if os.path.exists("todoist.cache"): # Delete old cache + os.remove("todoist.cache") + open("todoist.cache", 'a').close() # Initialise new cache + # https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17322273 + with open("todoist.cache", "wb") as myFile: + pickle.dump(api.state['items'], myFile) + + rank = 0 + for i in api.state['items']: # all the items in todoist + if i['project_id'] == 170911352: # if item is "inbox" + if i['checked'] == 0: # if item is incomplete + if i['priority'] == 1: + pri = "<p class='priority4'>" + elif i['priority'] == 2: + pri = "<p class='priority3'>" + elif i['priority'] == 3: + pri = "<p class='priority2'>" + elif i['priority'] == 4: + pri = "<p class='priority1'>" + rank += 1 + print(pri, "<b>", rank, '- </b>', + i['content'], "</p>") # name and id + +if __name__ == '__main__': + main() +``` + +I did need to verify if the computer was online, and I did this with quite a minimal (and naive) +package which I wrote. Here it is: + +```python +# -*-coding:utf-8 -* +from urllib.error import URLError +import urllib.request + +def main(): + loop_value = 0 + # Gives up on trying to connect after 6 failed attempts + while loop_value < 5: + try: + urllib.request.urlopen("http://www.google.com") + loop_value = 6 + except URLError as e: + loop_value += 1 + if loop_value == 6: + return(True) + else: + return(False) + +if __name__ == '__main__': + main() +``` + +Albeit simple, here is the final result: + + + +As mentionned, it is quite simple. But that was by design. I used a couple of +other widgets in conjuction with this one. And with a bit of fiddling, this is +the result I daily drove on my machine for quite some time: + + + +[1]: https://todoist.com +[2]: https://github.com/romgrk/todoist.nvim +[3]: https://github.com/nvim-neorg/neorg +[4]: https://tracesof.net/uebersicht diff --git a/content/projects/uebersicht-todoist/overview.jpg b/content/projects/uebersicht-todoist/overview.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..46a8ead --- /dev/null +++ b/content/projects/uebersicht-todoist/overview.jpg |
