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User Guide

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Genie is a desktop app for managing your genie.tasks, optimised used via a Command Line Interface (CLI) while still having the benefits of a Graphical User Interface (GUI).

Notes about the command format

• Words in UPPER_CASE are the parameters to be supplied by the user. e.g. todo TASK, TASK is a parameter which can be used as todo eat dinner.

• Features
  • Adding a todo
  • Adding a deadline
  • Adding a event
  • Listing all task
  • Marking a task as done
  • Deleting a task
  • Locating a task
  • Show all commands
  • Show tasks of certain priority
  • Exiting the program

Features

The Genie is powerful enough to help you do the following:

• Add a new tasks to you task list
• View all the tasks you have
• Mark a task as completed
• Delete a task
• Find task(s) based on keywords
• Save and load your tasks automatically from your hard drive
• Add priority to tasks
• View task list by priority level

Adding a todo: todo

Adds a todo task to the list

Format: todo TASK PRIORITY LEVEL

• Assign priority level to task.
• Available priority levels are HIGH, MEDIUM & LOW.
• Tasks with no specified priority level will by default be of LOW priority

Examples

• todo Chase Jasmine HIGH
• todo Feed Abu

Adding a deadline: deadline

Adds a deadline to the task list.

Format: deadline TASK /by DATE

• Assign priority level to deadlines.
• Available priority levels are HIGH, MEDIUM & LOW.
• Deadlines with no specified priority level will by default be of LOW priority

Examples

• deadline Learn to ride magic carpet /by 2021-09-19

Adding a event: event

Adds an event to the task list.

Format: event EVENT /at DATE TIME(OPTIONAL)

Examples

• event Magic Carpet Ride w Jasmine /at 2021-09-21 HIGH

Listing all task: list

List all the genie.tasks that are both completed and not completed.

Format: list

Marking a task as done: done INDEX

Mark task as done.

Format: done INDEX

• Mask the task at the specified index as done.
• Index must be a positive integer greater than 0.
• The index refers to the number in the list.

Examples

• list followed by done 2 to mark the first task on the list as done.

Deleting a task: delete INDEX

Deleting a specified task from the list.

Format: delete INDEX

• Deleting the task at the specified index.
• Index must be a positive integer greater than 0.
• The index refers to the number in the list.

Examples

• list followed by delete 2 to delete the first task on the list.

Locating a task: find KEYWORD

Find genie.tasks that contains the given index.

Format: find KEYWORD

Examples

• find Jasmine

Show all commands: help

Show all the available commands and formats for the user input that the genie.Genie understands.

Format: help

Expected outcome:

Show tasks of certain priority: show PRIORITY LEVEL

Show all the tasks that are of the indicated priority level.

Format: show PRIORITY LEVEL

• Priority levels are HIGH, MEDIUM & LOW

Examples

• show HIGH

Exiting the program: bye

Exits the program.

Format: bye

Saving the data

All the genie.tasks added to the list are automatically saved to the hard drive, no manual editing is needed. The next time the app is opened, your genie.tasks will still appear when you enter the list command.