Announcing DailyTasks 0.1

A few minutes ago, I submitted my first piece of software to Freshmeat (it hasn’t been approved yet; it will probably take a few hours): DailyTasks. It’s a small utility, written in PHP, with both a command line mode and a web interface, which, surprisingly enough, reminds you of daily tasks. :)

The web page linked above tells the “story” in more detail, but, basically, I’m much too chaotic to use traditional task management programs (every time I tried, I seemed to spend more time updating tasks than actually doing them), but I wanted something to remind me, every day, of doing something — from “clean up GMail’s spam folder” through “update a blog” to “do the laundry, if necessary”. :) There was already a similar program (frequent-task-reminder), but it lacked some features that I wanted (such as non-accumulating tasks), and so I wrote my own.

It’s really basic stuff, with no bells and whistles, and the PHP code would probably scare you, so impressionable young people should avoid looking at it. :) But maybe — just maybe — you’ll find it useful.

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2 Responses to “Announcing DailyTasks 0.1”


  1. 1 Marco Rodrigues

    Why not Google Calender? It has SMS to Portugal for Free and a lot of things.

  2. 2 Pedro Timóteo

    Marco: I haven’t tried Google Calendar yet, but I think a full “calendar” is overkill for what I want here: a place where I can go and see which daily, repeating tasks I haven’t done yet today, and mark them as “done” as I complete them.

    Besides, this works offline, too. :)

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