DESCRIPTION

Really simple script to create to-dos in Habitica from tasks you completed in Things within the last 24 hours

REQUIREMENTS

sqlite3 - included with macOS, which you're probably using if you're interested in a script for Things
jo - a nifty shell command to create json in bash scripts with a clever interface because I hate wrestling json within bash. Just brew install it.

INSTALLATION & SETUP

Put it in your $PATH if you want to invoke it regularly or better yet, create a launch-agent to run it at the same time every day
Export the HABITICA_API_USER and HABITICA_API_KEY variables with your own values or just hardcode them in the script if you're feeling lazy

WHAT IT DOES

Queries the Things sqlite database at the default location for all tasks you have completed in the last 24 hours
Formats a JSON request for each completed task
Makes a call to the Habitica API to create a to-do with the same name as the Things task, priority of Medium and a note with the date it was created.

NOTES AND WARNINGS

This is super simple and I threw it together in a few minutes. I definitely plan to improve it or port it to Applescript so it's using a decent interface to Things instead of hitting the sqlite database directly (gross).
That being said, there's pretty much zero error handling, no flexibility in changing to-do priority to anything other than Medium, doesn't actually complete the task, doesn't keep track of state (ie, if you run it twice it's going to create two sets of to-do's in Habitica) etc etc.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thanks to Alexander Willner's original Things3 script for the idea to use sqlite

CREDITS

Author: Ron Lipke
Date: 2017-11-25
License: I don't know, use it at your own discretion

cluster / things-bitica