peace-for-all / todoist-scheduler

Schedule your day based on Todoist time labels

Todoist Scheduler

You may want to schedule your (work) day. Therefore, you need to know how many tasks you can get done on a particular day.

Todoist has no time estimation built in. Luckily, there are labels. And 4 different time slots are enough for most use cases: 5, 15, 30, 45min (if any task takes more than 45min, you should split it up anyway).

How to estimate time in Todoist?

• Just add @m5, @m15, @m30 or @m45 to any given task

How to get a sum of estimates for your whole day?

• (Bash) EXPORT TODOIST_KEY = 'your_key_here' (or add to .zshrc, .env or the like)
• git clone [e-mail]:minthemiddle/todoist-scheduler.git
• cd todoist-scheduler
• (Create new virtualenv) python3 -m venv myvenv
• (Activate on Linux/Mac) source myvenv/bin/activate
• (Install dependencies) pip3 install -r requirements.txt
• python3 todoist.py

It will ask for a project name (e.g. work) and will calculate all estimations within this project and its subprojects.

Status und Contributions

This is still a very basic script to solve my problem. I don't like that I have to type in the project name (correctly) and that the label names m… are hard-coded.

Totally open to pull requests to improve the code quality and extend the functionality!