Tasks Program

A simple terminal-based task manager written in C. It supports priorities, filtering by manager, and saving/loading tasks from a text file.

Features

• Add new task: description, manager, priority (High/Low), and due date.
• Update a task: edit any field by index.
• Delete a task: with confirmation prompt.
• Show tasks: list all tasks with details and indices.
• Urgent tasks: show only high-priority tasks (highlighted in red).
• Tasks by manager: filter tasks assigned to a specific manager.
• Save tasks to file (CSV): write tasks to tasks.csv with proper quoting.
• Load tasks from file (CSV): read tasks from tasks.csv.
• Show tasks sorted by due date: chronological view by due date.
• Search tasks: find by text in description or manager.
• Overdue highlighting: shows days remaining, due today, or overdue by N days.
• Unsaved-changes prompt: offers to save before exiting if you made changes.

Setup

On macOS (Homebrew):

brew update
brew install gcc
gcc --version

On Linux (Debian/Ubuntu):

sudo apt update
sudo apt install build-essential
gcc --version

Build

gcc -o tasks tasks.c

Run

./tasks

CSV format

The program saves to tasks.csv with one task per line in this schema:

"description","manager",priority,creation_day,creation_month,creation_year,due_day,due_month,due_year

Note:

• Description and manager are quoted, with double quotes escaped by doubling (RFC 4180 style).