User Guide

Duke is a desktop chat bot that can help you manage your tasks. It is optimized by a Command Line interface and automatic save such that you can note it faster than conventional task manager application.

• Features
  • Task management
  • Task view
  • Various time format support
• Usage
  • help - view all functions
  • todo - create a todo task
  • deadline - create a task with a deadline
  • event - create an event task
  • done - mark a task as done
  • delete - delete a task
  • list - view all tasks
  • clear - delete all tasks
  • find - find the tasks containing keywords from the user
  • update - update the detail or time of an existing task

 

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Features

1. Task management

Add tasks conveniently with easy commands:

• Assign
  • Simple todo tasks, todo.
  • Tasks with deadline, deadline.
  • Events to attend, event.
• Mark tasks as done, done.
• Delete tasks, delete.
• Update tasks, update.
• Clear all tasks, clear

 

2. Task view

View all tasks via list.

 

3. Various time format support

• Use different time format for the convenience of time. Supported formats:
  

 

Format	user input time	output
HHmm	2359	Wednesday_Sep_16_2020_23:59
d	16	Wednesday_Sep_16_2020_00:00
d_HHmm	16_2300	Wednesday_Sep_16_2020_23:00
M/d	9/16	Wednesday_Sep_16_2020_00:00
M-d	9-16	Wednesday_Sep_16_2020_00:00
M/d_HHmm	9/16_2300	Wednesday_Sep_16_2020_23:00
M-d_HHmm	9-16_2300	Wednesday_Sep_16_2020_23:00
yyyy-M/d	2020/9/16	Wednesday_Sep_16_2020_00:00
yyyy-M-d	2020-9-16	Wednesday_Sep_16_2020_00:00
yyyy/M/d_HHmm	2020/9/16_2300	Wednesday_Sep_16_2020_23:00
yyyy-M-d_HHmm	2020-9-16_2300	Wednesday_Sep_16_2020_23:00

 

• Human communicative language for date and time support.
  • Date support:
    • today refers to 00:00 of current date.
    • tomorrow refers to 00:00 of the next day of current date.
  • Time support:
    • morning refers to 08:00.
    • noon refers to 12:00.
    • afternoon refers to 14:00.
    • night refers to 20:00.
    • midnight refers to 23:59.
  • Notes: date must be provided before time is used. e.g. today, today morning are supported but morning alone is not.

 

• Examples are given here.

Format (Given today is 9/16/2020)	output
today	Wednesday_Sep_16_2020_00:00
today morning	Wednesday_Sep_16_2020_08:00

 

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Usage

Command format:
Words surrounded by <> are the input from the users.
Words surrounded by [] are the command from the users.
e.g. [todo] <detail> means the user needs to type todo detail, such as todo work.

 

View all functions

Show all the functions and respective usage, help.

 

todo

todo - create a todo task.

Format: [todo] <detail>

Example:

• todo homework creates a new todo task homework that is yet done.

 

deadline

deadline - create a task with a deadline.

Format: [deadline] <space> <detail> <space> </by> <Date and/or time>

Example:

• deadline UG /by 16_2359 creates a new deadline task UG (by:Wednesday_Sep_16_2020_23:59)
• More time format can be referred in 3.Various time format support.

 

event

event - create a event to attend.

Format: [event] <space> <detail> <space> </on> <Date and/or time>

Example:

• event midterm /on 16_1300 creates a new deadline task midterm (on:Wednesday_Sep_16_2020_13:00)
• More time format can be referred in 3.Various time format support.

 

done

done - mark a task as done.

Format: [done] <index>

Example:

• done 1 mark the first task in the list as done.

 

delete

delete - delete a task.

Format: [delete] <index>

Example: *delete 1 deletes the first task in the list.

 

list

list - view all tasks in the list.

Format: [list]

 

clear

clear - delete all the tasks.

Format: [clear] <all/done/(leave empty)>

Example:

• clear and clear all clears all the tasks in the list.
• clear done clears completed tasks only.

 

find

find - find the tasks containing each or all keywords from the user.

Format: [find] <space> <keywords>

Example:

• find tutorial lesson finds tasks that contains tutorial or lesson or tutorial lesson.

 

update

update - update the detail or time of an existing task

Format: [update] <space> <index> <space> <detail/time> <space> </to> <content>

Example:

• update 2 detail /to CS2103T lesson update the detail of the 2nd task to CS2103T lesson.
• update 3 time /to 1600 update the time of the 3rd task to 1600 of the present day.

 

bye

bye - exit the program

Format: bye