🗂️ TaskDaily

A flexible and dynamic daily task management system that helps you organize and track your daily tasks across unlimited projects.

Features

• 📝 Create daily task files with customizable templates
• 🔄 Smart task carrying forward (excludes completed tasks)
• 🎯 Dynamic project support with emoji prefixes
• 🎨 Customizable task status workflow
• 📤 Multiple output formats (Slack, Teams, WhatsApp, Email)
• ⚙️ User-specific configuration management
• 🔒 Safe configuration handling with defaults

Installation

pip install taskdaily

To update to the latest version:

pip install --upgrade taskdaily

Quick Start

1. Initialize configuration (first time only):

daily config init

2. Create today's task file:

daily create

3. Share your daily plan/report:

# Share daily plan (default: Slack format)
daily share

# Share EOD report
daily share --report

# Share in different formats
daily share --format slack
daily share --format teams
daily share --format whatsapp
daily share --format email

Project Management

Projects are dynamically managed using emoji prefixes. Simply start a section with an emoji:

🏠 Personal
- [ ] Buy groceries ⚡
- [ ] Call dentist 🚧

💼 Work
- [ ] Review PR #123 ✅
- [ ] Debug issue #456 ⚡

📚 Learning
- [ ] Study Python ✅

You can create unlimited projects with any emoji prefix!

Task Status Management

Tasks are managed through status emojis in your daily markdown files. To change a task's status, simply edit the emoji at the end of the task line.

The default status workflow is:

• 📝 Planned (excluded from reports)
• ⚡ In Progress
• 🚧 Blocked
• 📅 Rescheduled
• ➡️ Carried Forward
• ✅ Completed (not carried forward)
• 🚫 Cancelled

Example of changing task status:

# Original task
- [ ] Review documentation 📝

# Change to in-progress
- [ ] Review documentation ⚡

# Mark as completed
- [ ] Review documentation ✅

Status behaviors:

• Tasks marked as ✅ (completed) won't carry forward to the next day
• Tasks marked as 🚫 (cancelled) won't carry forward
• Tasks with 📝 (planned) status are excluded from EOD reports
• All other tasks will carry forward with ➡️ status

Output Formats

TaskDaily supports multiple output formats:

Slack

daily share --format slack

• Proper emoji codes (e.g., :memo:)
• Clean bullet points (○ for todo, ● for done)
• Section dividers

Microsoft Teams

daily share --format teams

• Markdown formatting
• Proper headers
• Task checkboxes (☐, ☑)

WhatsApp

daily share --format whatsapp

• Bold headers
• Simple formatting
• Unicode bullets

Email

daily share --format email

• HTML formatting
• Clean lists
• Professional layout

Configuration

The package uses a configuration file located at ~/.config/daily-task/config.yaml. You can:

• Reset to defaults: daily config init
• View config paths: daily config path

Customizing Status Workflow

Add or modify statuses in your config file:

status:
  planned:
    name: "Planned"
    emoji: "📝"
    show_in_report: false
    carry_forward: true
  in_progress:
    name: "In Progress"
    emoji: "⚡"
    show_in_report: true
    carry_forward: true
  completed:
    name: "Completed"
    emoji: "✅"
    show_in_report: true
    carry_forward: false
  # Add more statuses...

Smart Features

1. Task Handling:

   • Completed tasks (✅) are not carried forward
   • Planned tasks (📝) are excluded from EOD reports
   • Tasks maintain their status when carried forward

2. Project Management:

   • Create unlimited projects
   • Use any emoji as project prefix
   • No configuration needed for new projects

3. Format Handling:

   • Each format has optimized styling
   • Preserves emojis and formatting
   • Maintains readability across platforms

Testing

For detailed testing instructions and guidelines, see TESTING.md.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

Author

• Nainesh Rabadiya - GitHub
• Email: nkrabadiya@gmail.com

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.