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A terminal-based daily task management tool with minimal overhead.

• Complete CRUD support of daily tasks with intuitive syntax
• Visualized task schedule with colorful timeline
• A single executable binary and naturally terminal based
• Retentiveness by storing tasks in local file

Several alternatives:

• Recommended:cargo install arenta
• cargo install --git https://github.com/Gusabary/Arenta.git
• Download binary fromRelease page and put it into$PATH
• Clone the repo and build from source

Usearenta -h to show help messages andarenta -v to check the version.

Usearenta to start an interactive session, in which you could manage daily tasks easily.

Task is the core concept in Arenta, which consists of description, planned start/complete time, actual start/complete time and status.

The description and time part could be set and edited with Arenta commands, while the status is managed by Arenta in such rules:

The interactive session accepts valid Arenta commands:

• Type inn ornew to create a new task in an interactive way:

  arenta> n description: a new task how to arrange this task> start immediately  put in backlog  plan to...

• Type ins orstart plus a task index to start it:

  arenta> s 0task 0 started

• Type inc orcomplete plus a task index to complete it:

  arenta> c 0task 0 completed

• Type inls orll with[date_filter] and[flags] to list all tasks in specified date range.

  • ll will render a visualized timeline as well, in which the planned period is represented as- while actual period is=
  • [date_filter] is in format of<op><date>
    • <op> could be<,<=,>,>= or empty, which indicates==. Note that forll,<op> must be empty.
    • <date> could take format ofmm-dd,yyyy-mm-dd or just an integer, which indicates offset to today.
  • [flags] could containb orv
    • b flag to display backlog tasks as well
    • v flag to display in verbose mode

  # list today's tasks> ls# list tomorrow's tasks with timeline> ll +1# list all historical tasks in verbose mode> ls <0 v# list yesterday's tasks including backlog and timeline in verbose mode> ll -1 bv

• Type inh orhelp to show the complete usage of all Arenta commands

• [usability] make the Arenta interactive session more shell-like, e.g. can use up arrow key to pop up last command
• [scalability] take a more scalable approach to save all tasks to local file
• [customizability] expose some settings as configurable, e.g. length of timeline, color of status, task display pattern, etc.

MIT