Small ruby script to record my daily tasks and compile my weekly notes
To Run
ruby task-recorder.rb {command}
Available Commands:
done: "Add task to done for today",
todo: "Add task to todo for tomorrow",
notes: "Compile notes of completed tasks for the week incl. prior Friday as weekly meeting is Friday morning",
standup: "Output notes to be pasted in dev-standup this morning",
today: "Output notes for today",
clean: "Remove files from all weeks but current one and prior Friday",
help: "Display help notes for commands"
done and todo commands require a second param that is a description of the task, use Quotation marks to ensure this is taken as one string
e.g.
ruby task-recorder.rb done "Long task that I did today"
or
ruby task-recorder.rb done "Long task that I will do tomorrow"
This will generate a task file for today like:
*Yesterday*
>Long task that I did today
*Today*
>Long task that I will do tomorrow
At the end of the week you can run:
ruby task-recorder.rb notes
It will compile list of all tasks under the Yesterday header and compile them into a list of completed tasks for the week. An example will look like
*This Week*
>Task 1 Nake big update
>Meeting on new project
>Task 2
>Task 3
*Next Week*
At the strat of each day you can run
ruby task-recorder.rb standup
To see a list fo the tasks you finished yesterday and have scheduled to complete today
At any point during the day you can run
ruby task-recorder.rb today
To see a list of the tasks you have completed today and what you have planned for tomorrow.
Recommend adding this script as alias in bashrc so that you have easy access throughout console example bashrc entry
alias tr='ruby /path/to/repo/TaskRecorder/task-recorder.rb'
Then you can simply run
tr {command}
The way I am hoping to use this is throughout the day after I complete each task I will run
tr done "Description of task completed"
Then at the end of the day I will run
tr todo "Description of task to do for tomorrow"
for each task I have scheduled for tomorrow Then each morning I will run
tr standup
and copy and paste that directly to slack dev-standup channel Then each Thursday evening I will run
tr notes
add my todods for next week. These will be my notes for weekly project manager meeting