Alexa User Guide

Alexa is a chatbot to help people manage their tasks easily. You can take note and update it via GUI that responds to your command line instruction.

Table of Contents

• Requirements
• Features
  • Interactive user interface
  • View your tasks by date
  • Find your tasks
  • Update your tasks
• Usage
  • Add a new task
  • Marks task as done
  • Deletes a task in the list
  • Find tasks
  • List tasks
  • View all tasks by date
  • Update a task

Requirements

• Java 11 or later

Features

Interactive user interface

Alexa 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.

View your tasks by date

By default, Alexa stores your task by creation date. However, you can also filter to see which tasks do you have for the day

Differentiates your tasks

There are several types of tasks that are supported by Alexa chatbot to help you classify different types of task that you have.

Find your tasks

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

Update your tasks

If you have a change of plan, there is no need to delete and create a new task, simply update the current task with a new deadline

Usage

Add a new task

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

Usage example:

• todo [description]
• deadline [description] /by [yyyy-mm-dd]
• event [description] /at [yyyy-mm-dd]

Example of usage:

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

• deadline homework /by 2020-09-19
  Adds a new deadline task with description homework. Time description will be automatically formatted to Sep 19, 2020.

• event music concert /at 2020-09-19
  Adds a new event task with description music concert. Time description will be automatically formatted to Sep 19, 2020.

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Marks task as done

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

Usage example: done [taskNumber]

Example of usage:

• done 2
  Mark task with id 2 as done.

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Deletes a task in the list

Removes a certain task from the list of tasks.

Usage example: delete [taskNumber]

Example of usage:

• delete 2 Removes task with id 2.

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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 Alexa chat bot.

Usage example:

• list

Example of usage:

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

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View all tasks by date

View all tasks to be done on the given date

Usage example:

• viewall yyyy-mm-dd

Example of usage:

• viewall 2020-09-19
  This command will list all tasks on Sep 19, 2020

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Update a task

Update task description or date

Usage example:

• update <taskNumber> [/d <description>] [/t <date>]
• update <tasknumber> [/t <date>] [/d <description>]
• update <taskNumber> [/t <date>]
• update <taskNumber> [/d <description>]

Example of usage:

• update 2 /t 2020-09-20
  This command will update task 2 date to fall on September 20, 2020
• update 2 /d borrow book
  This command will update task 2 description to borrow book
• update 2 /t 2020-09-20 /d borrow book
  This command will update task 2 date to fall on September 20, 2020 and description to borrow book

Exit Alexa

Exit Alexa chatbot

Usage example:

• bye
  This will show Alexa’s goodbye message and close the application