todoist-cli

todoist-cli is an unofficial tool that allows you to interact with Todoist.com directly from the command line without using a browser. The motivation for it's existence is as a learning tool for myself.

Please familiarize yourself with the planned functionality for the todoist-cli below - the list is in order of priority. Items that are struck through are completed:

• Authenticate againsts Todoist.com and save access token
• Revoking of access tokens from Todoist.com
• Listing of tasks across all projects on Todoist.com
• Associating internal ids with Todoist tasks and projects to allow for easier management
• Allow creation of basic tasks
• Allow creation of tasks with priority and due date
• Allow flagging tasks as completed
• Allow reprioritization of tasks & changing due dates
• Display the project associated with a task
• Listing of tasks in a specific project
• Listing of all projects on Todoist.com
• Allow creation of projects
• Allow deletion of projects
• Allow creation of a task associated with a project

Getting started

To get started developing the todoist-cli please make sure that you have:

• At least Go version 1.14 installed.

1. Configuration

The todoist-cli loads configuration from both ./config/todoist_cli_configuration.go and ./config/secrets/provider.go which loads the secrets from constants defined in ./config/secrets/secrets.go (this file is not committed to source control for obvious reasons). A scaffolded version of the secrets.go file can be generated by using go generate.

Before starting development, please run the following command.

go generate ./...

Doing so will create an empty secrets.go file located in ./config/secrets with the Client ID and Client Secret set to blank constants. Once you have registered your application on Todoist at https://developer.todoist.com/ you will be able to populate these values.

Please do not commit your version of the secrets.go file to source control. Doing so will leak sensitive configuration details of your Todoist application. To make it simpler to not make this mistake, this file is explicitly excluded in the .gitignore.

2. Building the cli

For convenience, a launch configuration for Visual Studio Code is provided that will allow you to get started debugging immediately.

To build an executable version that can be shipped you can run the following command from the root directory.

go build -ldflags="-s -w"

This will create an executable that can be released.

3. Running tests

In order to run the tests for the todoist-cli, you can run the following command in the root directory.

go test ./...