whatdo

The CLI for when you can't decide what to do next.

I've got a lot of different projects that I like to work on, and a lot of different things I need to get done. These often all end up having the same priority, so I made this program to just pick one for me to work on instead.

whatdo is a to-do list that adds your tasks to a "queue" that works a bit like a music playlist- you get a different ordering of every task in the "queue," and after going through each item the list is re-shuffled to a new order.

Features

• Add and remove notes for things you want to work on to a "queue".
• Pick a random thing from the "queue" for you to do next.
• Reshuffle the "queue" if you don't like how it's ordered.
• Queue is stored in a human-readable TOML file

Installation

Build from source

To build from source, you'll (obviously) need cargo:

git clone https://github.com/goneal26/whatdo.git
cd whatdo
cargo build --release

From here, the program executable can be found at target/release/whatdo.

If you want, you can instead run cargo install --path . in the repository folder to install whatdo to your system.

Usage

Grab a random unfinished task to work on from the queue:

whatdo

You can also use whatdo pick to achieve the same result.

Add tasks to the queue directly as single-word arguments:

whatdo add painting reading biking

Tasks are single-word items separated by spaces.

List all tasks:

whatdo list

This will return the entire list, with each task on a separate line.

Remove a task by name:

whatdo drop reading

Remove all tasks:

whatdo clear

Reshuffle the queue (if you don't like the ordering). This is done automatically after you've ran pick for every item in the queue:

whatdo shuffle

See help and other information:

whatdo help

You can also use whatdo --help or whatdo -h.

See version info:

whatdo --version

You can also use whatdo -V instead.

TOML list storage

Your "global" task list is stored in a TOML file, alongside the queue containing the next hobbies the program will "pick" (in case you want to spoil the surprise).

Here is an example:

list = [
    "reading",
    "swimming",
    "biking",
    "painting",
]
queue = [
    "swimming",
    "biking",
]

To find the path to this file, enter:

whatdo path

By default, the task list is named list.toml and is stored in your local config directory. So, on linux, that's something like ~/.config/whatdo/list.toml.