TaskPaper Parser

One script to parse a TaskPaper formatted file and print a summary of current, overdue and upcoming actions.

Another script to parse a TaskPaper formatted file and print the actions per context.

Prior to first use

I made some small changes to remove errors under Python 3 (only tested on Windows). As Python 3 doesn't seem to include dateutil run pip3 install python-dateutil first.

Usage

python tpp.py <input file>

The <input file> will be parsed for tasks containing the @today, @due( ), @start() tags. Tasks with the @done tag are ignored.

The output will show the relevant tasks found in four sections.

Ex;

SUMMARY for <filename> [<date>]

TODAY

    [Project1] - Task 1 @today
    [Project1] - Task 2 @today
    [Project2] - Task 1 @today

OVERDUE

    [Project1] - Task 1 @due(<any date in the past>)
    [Project3] - Task 1 @due(<any date in the past>)

DUE THIS WEEK

    [Project3] - Task 2 @due(<any date in the next week>)
    [Project4] - Task 3 @due(<any date in the next week>)

STARTING THIS WEEK

    [Project1] - Task 4 @start(<any date in the next week>)
    [Project2] - Task 3 @start(<any date in the next week>)

If an error comes up for parsing any line in the file, it will be show at the bottom as:

ERROR PARSING THESE LINES
    (line text, error)
    (line text, error)

Changes

• February 2 2014; Inital version.
• February 16 2018; Forked to make it work with Python 3 on Windows
• February 5 2021; added statistics for amount of done tasks
• May 26 2021; added list of tasks per context in gtd.py
• May 27 2021; use argparse
• May 29 2021; changed parsing of action lines