Quick Start

Quick Start

This page walks through the whole loop in a few minutes. If you haven't installed jasem yet, see Installation.

1. Add a task in plain language

Just describe it. jasem pulls out the title, deadline, priority, and tags:

$ jasem todo "pay rent next friday, high priority, finance"
✓ added #1: pay rent
  priority=high  deadline=2026-06-19  tags=finance

Notice you didn't fill in any fields — next friday became a date, high priority set the priority, and finance became a tag. See Natural Language Input for everything jasem understands.

Tip: Quote the whole description. It keeps shell characters like &, !, *, (, ) literal and keeps multi-word text together.

2. See what's open

A bare jasem todo lists open tasks, soonest deadline first:

$ jasem todo
 Open tasks ──────────────────────────────────────────────
 ●  1  ⚑ high  in 4d  pay rent      #finance  today
 ●  2    med   today  call dentist  #health   2d
 ──────────────────────────── 2 open  ·  1 due today

Deadlines show as relative time (in 4d, today, overdue); the last column is each task's age. Other views: today, week, overdue, all. Full details on the Tasks page.

3. Track some time

$ jasem track "1h30min code review, work"
✓ tracked #1 1h 30min · code review · today · #work

Review it later:

jasem track list            # the entries
jasem track report week     # per-day totals, by-tag, top activities

See Time Tracking.

4. Log spending

$ jasem acc "50k lunch with the team, food"
✓ recorded #1 50,000 · lunch with the team · today · #food

jasem acc list              # the records
jasem acc report month      # totals for the last 30 days

See Spending.

5. Get the big picture

Run jasem with no arguments for a one-screen Dashboard — what needs attention today plus the time and money you've logged, drawn straight from your files and rendered fully offline.

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6. Fix things

Everything is editable by id. The id is shown when you add an entry and in every list.

jasem todo done 1                       # mark task #1 complete
jasem todo set 2 deadline tomorrow      # change a field
jasem track set 1 time 2h               # correct a duration
jasem acc rm 1                          # delete a record

The mental model

Three namespaces, the same verbs everywhere:

jasem <todo|track|acc> "<free text>"     add an entry  (AI-parsed)
jasem <todo|track|acc> list              view entries
jasem <todo|track|acc> tags              categories in use, with counts
jasem <todo|track|acc> set <id> …        edit one field of an entry
jasem <todo|track|acc> rm  <id> …        delete entries
jasem <track|acc>      report            aggregated totals & charts

Plus task-only views (today, week, overdue, all, find, done) and the no-args dashboard. The whole thing is on one screen: run jasem help.

Next: pick a namespace — Tasks, Time Tracking, Spending — or wire up a model in AI Backends.