routine-tasks.md

Design of routine tasks

Types of routine tasks

1. daily
2. weekly
3. bi-weekly
4. monthly-on-date
5. monthly-on-weekday (4 weeks)
6. once (one-shot reminder)

How to store them in markdown

• {󰃵:d yyyy-mm-dd} daily
• {󰃵:w yyyy-mm-dd} weekly
• {󰃵:b yyyy-mm-dd} bi-weekly
• {󰃵:q yyyy-mm-dd} monthly-on-weekday
• {󰃵:m yyyy-mm-dd} monthly-on-date
• {󰃵:1 yyyy-mm-dd} reminder

Where to save

There will be a dedicated taskbox file, named ROUTINES.md, and the structure will be:

# ROUTINES

## daily
- [ ] {󰃵:d 2024-08-21} daily task one
- [x] {󰃵:d 2024-08-21} daily task two (done, or stopped)

## weekly
- [ ] {󰃵:w 2024-08-21} weekly task one
- [ ] {󰃵:b 2024-08-21} bi-weekly task two
- [ ] {󰃵:q 2024-08-21} four-weekly task three

## monthly
- [ ] {󰃵:m 2024-08-21} monthly task one

How to operate on them

• use add command to add a new routine task with option, and it will be store in ROUTINES md file with proper routine-prefix and current date, available options are:
  • -r/--routine <daily | weekly | biweekly | qweekly | monthly | once>
• add a new command checkout to pick up any matched routine tasks to "today" box, with expanded routine info (means "checkout")
  • actually its an alias of collect --inbox routines
• when to run today cli with any command, will have a daily-once hook to run checkout
• command edit will have a new flag -r/--routine to edit the routine tasks
• for import, will import the (rarely)matched routine tasks to "ROUTINES" box
• for list and listall, list them with special flags
  • new cmd routines to list all the routine tasks
• cmd pool (today -> INBOX) will ignore the checkout routine tasks
• cmd collect (INBOX/other -> today) will only checkout routine tasks from ROUTINES box to "today" box, otherwise just move without checkout operation
  • and collect --inbox routines is dedicated for routine tasks checkout
• no affect: count, mark, purge, browse, listbox, shift, sink