User Guide

Duke is a Personal Assistant Chatbot that helps a person to keep track of various things.

Features

Adding a task

Duke allows a user to add a todo (task without any date/time attached to it), deadline (task that needs to be done before a specific date/time) or an event (task that starts at a specific time and ends at a specific time) task.

Deleting a task

Duke allows a user to remove an existing task from the list.

Viewing the tasks list

Duke allows a user to view all the tasks available.

Marking a task as done

Duke allows a user to mark a task as done.

Finding a task

Duke allows a user to find a task by searching for a keyword.

Usage

todo - Adds a todo task.

By typing the todo command together with the description of the task, a user can insert a todo task into the tasks list.

Example of usage:

todo read book

Expected outcome:

Got it. I've added this task:
 [T][X] read book
Now you have 1 task(s) in the list.

deadline - Adds a deadline task.

By typing the deadline command together with the description of the task, followed by a /by and the date of the deadline, a user can insert a deadline task into the tasks list. Ensure that the date entered is of the format: “YYYY-MM-DD”.

Example of usage:

deadline submission /by 2020-02-19 1800

Expected outcome:

Got it. I've added this task:
 [D][X] submission (by: Feb 19 2020 1800)
Now you have 2 task(s) in the list.

event - Adds an event task.

By typing the event command together with the description of the task, followed by an /at and the date of the event, a user can insert an event task into the tasks list. Ensure that the date entered is of the format: “YYYY-MM-DD”.

Example of usage:

event party /at 2020-02-06 1400

Expected outcome:

Got it. I've added this task:
 [E][X] party (at: Feb 6 2020 1400)
Now you have 3 task(s) in the list.

list - Displays all the tasks in the tasks list.

By typing the list command, a user can see all the tasks available in the tasks list.

Example of usage:

list

Expected outcome:

1.[T][X] read book
2.[D][X] submission (by: Feb 19 2020 1800)
3.[E][X] party (at: Feb 6 2020 1400)

done - Marks a task as done.

By typing the done command followed by the index of the task, a user can mark that task as done.

Example of usage:

done 1

Expected outcome:

Nice! I've marked this task as done:
[T][/] read book

delete - Deletes the task from the tasks list.

By typing the delete command followed by the index of the task, a user can delete that task from the tasks list.

Example of usage:

delete 2

Expected outcome:

Noted. I've removed this task:
 [D][X] submission (by: Feb 19 2020 1800)
Now you have 2 task(s) in the list.

find - Displays all the tasks that contains the keyword provided.

By typing the find command followed by the keyword, a user can see the list of tasks matching that keyword.

Example of usage:

find book

Expected outcome:

Here are the matching tasks in your list:
1.[T][/] read book

bye - Terminates the app.

By typing the bye command, a user can exit from the duke program.

Example of usage: bye

Acknowledgements

Credit to Jeffry Lum for the fxml and java files for JAVAFX GUI.