Daily Task Reminder

Application that reminds you about finishing tasks that repeat with regular interval such as feeding the dog daily or watering the plants every week.

Useful not only for forgetful people but also for the whole household, one member can finish the task and others will know it has already been done.

Getting started

1. First you need to configure your tasks. You can do that either using the WinForms application or you can write your configuration by hand.

2. If you also want to get reminded you will need to configure the reminders. Again either using the WinForms application or writing it by hand by hand.

3. Then you can finally start the application! Just run this command in the DailyTaskReminder folder (see all command line options here):

dotnet run -- -t "PathToTaskFile.txt" -r "PathToRemindersFile.json" 

Make sure to run the console with elevated privileges, the program will need to start a HTTP listener.

4. To look at the tasks and mark them as finished just open WebClient.html and you will see a table of the tasks. If you want to run the program on a server and access it using the WebClient just change the URL inside the WebClient.html from http://localhost:25566 to the address where the server is running. For example: http://myDomain.eu:25566

Task configuration

To write your own tasks configuration just follow the example. Each task has this layout in the config file:

TaskType (For example Daily or Monthly...)
Special line that is only some tasks have (For example weekdays of the weekly task or day of month for the monthly task)
TaskName
TaskDeadline (The time of day when the task should be finished, omitted for Periodic tasks)
RemindTime (The amount of time before deadline when the reminders are sent)
ReminderNames
Message

TaskType currently supports 4 tasks:

• DailyTask / Daily / D
• WeeklyTask / Weekly / W
• MonthlyTask / Monthly / M
• YearlyTask / Yearly / Y
• PeriodicTask / Periodic / P

Special line for those types is as follows:

• Daily - Skips the line
• Weekly - Weekdays separated by ';' (for example Monday;Friday)
• Monthly - Number of day
• Yearly - Day;Month in numbers (for example 25;1)
• Periodic - Has 2 special lines (also skips TaskDeadline)
  1. The date and time of its first deadline
  2. The time span of the period

TaskName has to be unique for all tasks.

RemindNames names of the reminders to send (separated by ';') or "-" if you want no reminders for this task

Message that will be sent when reminding or "-" and the default message will be used (including the name of the task and the deadline time)

Concrete example:

DailyTask
Feed The Dog
18:00:00 +01:00
01:00:00
DiscordPrivate;TelegramDM
Don't forget to feed the dog today!

MonthlyTask
20
Pay the rent
13:00:00
01:00:00
TelegramDM
-

WeeklyTask
Friday
Water the plants
18:00:00 +01:00
01:00:00
DiscordPublic
The plants are getting thirsty!

YearlyTask
7;6
Grandma's Birthday
10:00:00 +01:00
23:00:00
TelegramDM
-

Periodic
23.9.2021 10:00:00
2.00:00:00
Every two days
01:00:00
-
-

Reminder configuration

Reminder configuration is just a JSON file with list of objects that each has these properties:

• Type - Type of the reminder (currently there are only 2 types DiscordWebhook and TelegramBot)
• Name - Name of the webhook - this is what should be written in task configuration on line ReminderNames
• Other fields based on type
  • DiscordWebhook
    • URL - URL of the webhook
  • TelegramBot
    • BotToken - Token of the telegram bot
    • ChatId - Id of the chat where the reminder should eb sent

Example:

[
  {
    "Type": "DiscordWebhook",
    "Name": "DiscordPrivate",
    "URL": "https://discord.com/api/webhooks/98798456489/okdsSaSuFZALr6zT7t3djaslkjiI7W4Ac1vGAyO1D459b6lZlUeVS1EcxwHbn5441I8rq"
  },
  {
    "Type": "DiscordWebhook",
    "Name": "DiscordPublic",
    "URL": "https://discord.com/api/webhooks/98793215989/okdsSaSuFZALr6zT7t3djaslkjiI7W4Ac1vGAyO1D459b6lZlUeVS1EcxwHbn5441I8rq" 
  },
  {
    "Type": "TelegramBot",
    "Name": "TelegramDM",
    "BotToken": "1951584223:AAG5QKaQWIsJuDkcyz4zdL1noNOOKPFR0Ps",
    "ChatId": "740123753"
  }
]

Configurator

Configurator is a WinForms application for configuring the tasks and reminders.

To open it simply run this command in the Configurator folder:

dotnet run

Command line options

All currently supported command line options for the program.

Option	Default value	Description
-t, --task, --tasks	Tasks.txt	Path to task configuration file
-r, --reminder, --reminders	Reminders.json	Path to reminder configuration file
-p, --port	25566	Port of HTTP server
-a --access	*	Value of the HTTP "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" header
-h --hush		For the next hour the application will not send and reminders
-v --verbose		Will print about what is happening in the program