= sign cannot be used in projects

[ghost]

Hi,

For many users the = sign can no longer be used in project names. Is it possible to change to another sign i.e ---

[mantenie]

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[akramer]

It's entirely plausible to change it.

I don't use Todoist anymore, and so this code has been languishing. Does it still work? Part of why I stopped updating this project is that the API would spontaneously change with no warning and no good list of changes.

[stoduk]

I spoke with Todoist tech support, apparently = was removed as a valid character in Project names for reasons of "cross-platform compatibility". [I've still got projects with it in, but if you try to create a new Project or change the name of an existing Project then the = is converted to a _] They explicitly said that they have no problem with this App, the breakage was unintentional, though won't be reversed.

So moving to a new set of characters to indicate serial vs. parallel makes sense.

I was going to have a stab at fixing all this and moving to the v6 API, but looks like @nikdoof has already done this.

@akramer - could nikdoof's version be collapsed down? It is very configurable (good, in case things change in future), and uses the Todoist python library (might help avoid future breakages?).

[akramer]

I've tried my best to make it clear that @nikdoof's repo should be used. :) 👍