PRTS User Guide

What is PRTS?

Ever felt overwhelmed by all the things you need to keep track of? Well, PRTS is here to help! Part chatbot, part to-do- list, part companion, PRTS is here to help share that cognitive load and assist you through those long nights!

So, what can PRTS do?

Features

General notes about giving commands:

• PRTS is flexible! Lowercase or uppercase, casing of commands does not matter!
• Additionally, whitespaces will also be ignored by PRTS - except the very first word! Ensure you do not start your command with a whitespace!
• Unless otherwise stated, PRTS will not attempt to parse your descriptions, and they will be taken verbatim.
• All fields must be present! You cannot leave a field blank, or PRTS will complain to you.
• All commands that modify the Task List will automatically save the Task List to a file on your hard disk.
  • These commands are: todo, deadline, event, delete, mark, unmark, and undo.

Adding a To-Do: todo

Adds a To-Do item to the Task List. Format: todo [description]

• The description will be displayed in the Task List verbatim.

Example:

• todo buy groceries

Adding a Deadline: deadline

Adds a Deadline item to the Task List. Format: deadline [description] /by [deadline]

• The description will be displayed in the Task List verbatim.
• PRTS will attempt to parse the deadline as a date, but if it is unable to do so, the string input will be stored verbatim.

Examples:

• deadline submit quiz /by tomorrow
• deadline finish assignment /by 25 Sep 2023

Adding an Event: event

Adds a Deadline item to the Task List. Format: event [description] /from [startDate] /to [endDate]

• The description will be displayed in the Task List verbatim.
• PRTS will attempt to parse the startDate and endDate as dates, but if it is unable to do so, the string input will be stored verbatim.

Examples:

• event birthday party /from 1 Oct 12pm /to 5pm
• event vacay /from september /to october ???

Listing all tasks: list

Lists all Tasks currently in the Task List. Format: list

• This command must strictly be used with no further input.

Deleting a task: delete

Deletes a specified task from the Task List. Format: delete [index | "all"]

• Either a number or the word all should be specified.
• If a number is specified, ensure that it is parseable as an integer, and is between 1 and the size of the Task List.
• If all is specified, the entire Task List will be deleted.

Examples:

• delete 3
• delete all

Marking a task as complete: mark

Marks a specified task in the Task List as complete. If the Task is already marked as complete, PRTS will notify you. Format: mark [index | "all"]

• Either a number or the word all should be specified.
• If a number is specified, ensure that it is parseable as an integer, and is between 1 and the size of the Task List.
• If all is specified, the entire Task List will be deleted.

Examples:

• mark 3
• mark all

Marking a task as incomplete: mark

Marks a specified task in the Task List as incomplete. If the Task is already marked as incomplete, PRTS will notify you. Format: mark [index | "all"]

• Either a number or the word all should be specified.
• If a number is specified, ensure that it is parseable as an integer, and is between 1 and the size of the Task List.
• If all is specified, the entire Task List will be deleted.

Examples:

• unmark 3
• unmark all

Finding a search term: find

Searches the Tasks in the Task List for a given search term. Format: find [searchTerm]

• For Deadlines and Events, this will search the date fields as well.
• [searchTerm] can be of any length, but will not be parsed for individual words - returned results must contain the entire term verbatim.

Undo last command: undo

Undoes the last one or more commands input by the user that affected the state of the Task List. Format: undo [count | "all"]

• The count | "all" field is optional.
  • If this field is omitted, i.e. the command provided is undo, it will be treated as equivalent to undo 1.
• count indicates the number of commands to revert.
• Using the word all will undo all commands since the start of the session!
  • There is no way to undo an undo, so be careful about using this!

Exiting the program: bye

Exits the program immediately. The Task List will be saved.

• As long as the command begins with the word bye, this command will execute, even if this is not the only word in that input.

Flavor text:

There are some keywords currently implemented that will cause PRTS to respond in unique ways! See if you can find them! There will be more to come!