duke

Duke User Guide

Duke is a chatbot to help people manage their tasks easily. You can take note and update it via GUI that behaves that behaves like a command line interaction.

Table of Contents

• Requirements
• Features
  • Interactive user interface
  • Differentiates your tasks
  • Sort your tasks
  • Find your tasks
  • Detect duplicates
• Usage
  • Add a new task
  • Marks task as done
  • Deletes a task in the list
  • Find tasks
  • List tasks

Requirements

• Java 11 or later

Features

Interactive user interface

Duke chatbot uses a GUI that gives you interactive feedback for every command that you write. It responds as if you are chatting with a real person that always available to help you manage your tasks.

Differentiates your tasks

There are several types of tasks that are supported by Duke chatbot to help you classify different types of task that you have. Every task can also be uniquely identified with an 5-digit integer ID.

Sort your tasks

By default, the tasks will be sorted by creation time. However, you can also ask Duke to show your tasks based on last updated time.

Find your tasks

You can ask Duke to find task that contain a certain keyword in your command.

Detect duplicates

Duke chatbot will also prevent you from inserting duplicate tasks in case you forget that you have added a certain task.

Usage

Add a new task

Add a new task into the list of tasks that are stored by Duke chatbot for you.

Usage example:

• todo [description]
• deadline [description] /by [byDescription]
• event [description] / by [atDescription]

Example of usage:

• todo watch movie
  Adds a new todo task with description watch movie.

• deadline homework /by 19/09/2019 23:59
  Adds a new deadline task with description homework. Time description will be automatically formatted to September 19, 2019, 11:59 PM.

• event music concent /at MBS
  Adds a new event task with description music concert. Location description will be written as MBS.

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Marks task as done

Marks a particular task as done in the list of tasks.

Usage example: done [taskID]

Example of usage:

• done 49924
  Mark task with id 49924 as done.

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Deletes a task in the list

Removes a certain task from the list of tasks.

Usage example: delete [taskID]

Example of usage:

• delete 49924 Removes task with id 49924.

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Find tasks

Finds all the tasks that contain a certain keyword in its description.

Usage example: find [keyword]

Example of usage:

• find homework Find all tasks that contain keyword homework in its description.

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List tasks

Lists all the tasks that are currently stored by the Duke chat bot.

Usage example:

• list
• list /orderby [sort type]

Example of usage:

• list By default, this will lists all tasks based on their creation time.

• list /orderby createdAt List all tasks based on their creation time.

• list /orderby updatedAt List all tasks based on their last updated time.