v0.8.0

What's new

zn task watch prints a line each time a task's status changes, so your own scripts can react to it, for example by starting an agent when a task becomes ready (ZenNotes/zennotes#941). zn only reports: nothing runs unless your script runs it.

• It covers a task note's status:, a checkbox task's @status:, and its checkbox. Moving a card on the Kanban board, editing the note in any editor, and zn task toggle all count. Editing a task's words, or saving it with the same status, does not.
• With --json, each change is one line of JSON with the note path, title, task text, and the previous and new status.
• A local vault is watched through its files. A ZenNotes server pushes its changes, and one that cannot is asked every --interval seconds.

zn task watch --json | while IFS= read -r change; do
  if [ "$(jq -r .status <<<"$change")" = ready ]; then
    ./start-agent.sh "$(jq -r .path <<<"$change")"
  fi
done

zn task list --json now gives each task's status, and so does list_tasks in zn mcp, so an assistant can see which column of a status board a task is in.

Changelog

• 7657716 Feat(tasks): zn task watch prints each task status change as it happens
• 58b0e56 Fix(tasks): zn task watch keeps a change made while a note is rewritten

Install

With Homebrew on macOS or Linux, run brew install zennotes/tap/zn, then zn tui.

Download the archive for your platform, unpack it, and put zn on your PATH.
With Go installed, go install github.com/ZenNotes/tui/cmd/zn@latest builds the same thing.