User Guide

Introduction

Duke is a personal chatbot that allows you to manage your todo list, along with keeping track of deadlines and events.

Features

Adding tasks

You can add 3 types of tasks into Duke, namely:

• ToDo: For any tasks that needs to be done
• Deadline: For any tasks with a specific deadline
• Event: For any appointments with a given starting and ending time

Note: Duke prevents adding tasks that have the exact same description and times.

Adding ToDo: todo [DESCRIPTION]

This adds a new ToDo into the database with the given description.

Examples:

• todo Prepare for project meeting
• todo Submit user guide

Adding Deadline: deadline [DESCRIPTION] /by [DEADLINE]

This adds a new task with a deadline into the database with the given description.

Note: The [DEADLINE] must be given in the format DD/MM/YYYY HHMM.

Examples:

• deadline Prepare project summary /by 06/06/2019 0000
• deadline Return book /by 20/08/2019 2200

Adding Event: event [DESCRIPTION] /at [START] - [END]

This adds a new appointment with a given description, starting and ending time into the database.

Note: The [START] AND [END] times must be given in the format DD/MM/YYYY HHMM.

Examples:

• event Project meeting /at 15/06/2019 1200 - 15/06/2019 1400
• event Jay Chou concert /at 20/06/2019 1900 - 20/06/2019 2200

Marking tasks as done: done [ID]

This marks the task with the given ID as done.

Example:

• done 2

Deleting tasks: delete [ID]

This deletes the task with the given ID from the database.

Example:

• delete 2

Finding tasks: find [KEYWORD]

This finds any task with the given keyword in the description.

Example:

• find book
• find project meeting

Listing all tasks: list

This lists all the tasks that are currently present in the database.

Exiting the program: bye

This exits the program and saves the current tasks list to the hard disk.