commit 276f6d2a67b74476ea7bd559ca9ccf738c6d73bf
parent 41300522d52a0aba6895f671088822a8d326d152
Author: David Schlachter <t480-debian-git@schlachter.ca>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:24:57 -0500
Add future work to readme
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
# Todoist Repeater
+## Background
+
I use Todoist as my todo app. I add tasks to my Inbox, sorted descending by date added. However, repeating tasks in Todoist don't work with my workflow: they stay in a fixed position in the list, and just refresh the due date.
What I want is a task that appears on a given interval, disappears when it's completed, and, when it's time to do it again, reappears at the top of the list.
@@ -13,6 +15,8 @@ Some examples of tasks that I want to recurr in this way:
- every six months, wash and condition the leather sofa
- every three months, do a reflection on how I'm feeling about work
+## Design
+
The idea for this program is to:
- have a list of tasks that specifies the task name and the recurrence (interval, start and end date)
@@ -43,4 +47,10 @@ At program start, and every minute thereafter:
- if we have not seen it, add the line to the hash of seen lines; then, add it to the scheduler
- if there were any lines that we did not see during this read of the file, but that we saw previously, remove them from the scheduler
-The lines will be formatted like a cron file, but instead of a command, we will simply have the name of the task to be created.
-\ No newline at end of file
+The lines will be formatted like a cron file, but instead of a command, we will simply have the name of the task to be created.
+
+## Future work
+
+It turns out jobs can be added AND removed by an ID that is returned from the Add function. It could be interesting to add/remove based on the last seen map (with the job IDs), instead of completely recreating all the jobs if the input file changes.
+
+We should probably retry failed network requests. It would not be great to have a temporary connectivity issue lead to missing an important task!
