Tips

Introduction

This document presents practical advices on how to get the best out of Yokadi.

Completion

Yokadi supports completion of command names, and in many commands it can complete project names. Do not hesitate to try the [tab] key!

Setting up a project hierarchy

You can set up a project hierarchy by adopting a name convention. For example if you want to track tasks related to a program which is made of many plugins, you could have the main project named fooplayer, all tasks for the .ogg plugin stored in fooplayer_ogg and all tasks about the .s3m plugin in fooplayer_s3m.

This makes it easy to categorize your tasks and also to have a general overview. For example to list all fooplayer related tasks you can use:

t_list fooplayer%

Using keywords

Keywords are great to group tasks in different ways. For example you can create a keyword named phone, and assign it to tasks which you must accomplish on the phone.

Another useful keyword is diy_store: Every time you find that you need to buy some supply from a do-it-yourself store, add it with this keyword. Next time you are planning a trip to the store, get the list of what to buy with:

t_list @diy_store

Or even nicer, directly print your list (from the shell):

yokadi "t_list @diy_store --format plain" | lp

Keep track of your meetings

To track my meetings, I like to use a meeting keyword together with an assigned due date. Yokadi ability to add long descriptions to tasks is also handy to associate address or contact information to a meeting task.

Keep track of tasks you delegate to people

When you delegate a task to someone, add a keyword with its name to the task. So you can check that people really do what they promise to do even if they are not as organized as you are.

To list all tasks assigned to Bob:

t_list @bob

To check all task that Bob should have done:

t_list --overdue @bob

Some useful shortcuts

Yokadi relies on readline library, so you can use very useful readline shortcuts such as: