Ticktask

Ticktask is a simple cli for ticktick to create tasks.

Features

• Uses official open api (which is still under development, but creating tasks is already work)
• Support date (*today and *tomorrow)
• Support tags (starts with #)
• Support task body (see config section)

Installation

Manual

Just save the ./ticktask file somewhere on your computer (for example, in /usr/local/bin/). Don't forget to set execute permission on file: chmod +x /path/to/ticktask

Setup

You need to obtain api key for ticktick, so go to https://developer.ticktick.com/manage and create your "app". P.S. you will be asked for ridirect_url setting. Set it to anything you want, for example http://127.0.0.1.

Next, you need to write your cliend_id and client_secret in config. Create ~/.config/ticktask/config.sh file with the following content:

CLIENT_ID="your_client_id"
CLIENT_SECRET="your_client_secret"

Then run ticktask and follow its instructions.

Congratulations! Your token saved in ~/.local/share/ticktask/token. Now you can jump to usage section.

Usage

Just run ticktask with your task title as argument. Example:

ticktask my new task created with ticktask

You can use date rules *today and *tomorrow which will be applied to task and removed from title text. The same for tags which starts with #.

Note: if for some reasons ticktask can't send request to ticktick, your task text will be saved in ~/.local/share/ticktask/error_tasks/ folder, so you will never lose anything. P.S. in such situation ticktask exit with code 2, so you can use it in your scripts (for example send notify with notify-send)

Use with hotkey

Personally, I use ticktask with dmenu. Command I use in hotkey:

echo -n | dmenu -p "ticktask:" | xargs -0 ticktask \
       && notify-send ticktask -t 1000 sent \
       || notify-send ticktask -u critical -t 2000 "not sent"

It opens dmenu prompt, then forwards result to tictask, and then sends notify with status "sent" or "not sent".

Config

Config file located at ~/.config/ticktask/config.sh. This is simply bash script, so it's very hackable and extensible.

For examples see ./config.example.sh

Task body (not necessary)

To be able to enter a task description, you can define function cmd_get_description() which should output the description as a result. For example, you can run any gui program with prompt, which will then print it to stdout.

Related projects

• ticked - allows you to edit your ticktick.com tasks in your favorite editor (like vim/neovim).