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 git@github.com: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!