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User Guide

Welcome to Duke, a Personal Assistant Chatbot that helps you keep track of todos, deadlines and tasks.

• Features
• Usage

Features

Listing all tasks: list

Finding a task: find

Adding a todo: todo

Adding a deadline: deadline

Adding an event: event

Marking a task as done: done

Deleting a task: delete

Asking for help: help

Exiting the application: bye

Usage

Listing all tasks: list

Displays a list of all existing tasks.

Format: list

Expected outcome:

Here are the tasks in your list:
1.[T][✓] ACC assignment
2.[E][✘] Formal Dinner (at: Sep 17 2020)
3.[T][✓] CS assignment

Finding a task: find

Displays a list of tasks which contain the given keyword.

Format: find [keyword]

Example of usage: find assignment

Expected outcome:

Here are the matching tasks in your list:
1.[T][✘] ACC assignment
2.[T][✘] CS assignment

Adding a todo: todo

Adds a task with a description to the task list.

Format: todo [description]

Example of usage: todo Essay

Expected outcome:

Got it. I’ve added this task:
[T][✘] Essay
Now you have 4 tasks in the list.

Adding a deadline: deadline

Adds a task with a description and a deadline to the task list.

Format: deadline [description] /by [date]

• deadline must have both a description and date
• date must be in yyyy-mm-dd format

Example of usage: deadline School Fees /by 2020-11-01

Expected outcome:

Got it. I’ve added this task:
[D][✘] School Fees (by: Nov 1 2020)
Now you have 5 tasks in the list.

Adding an event: event

Adds a task with a description and an event date to the task list.

Format: event [description] /at [date]

• event must have both a description and date
• date must be in yyyy-mm-dd format

Example of usage: event Birthday Celebration /at 2020-12-22

Expected outcome:

Got it. I’ve added this task:
[E][✘] Birthday Celebration (at: Dec 22 2020)
Now you have 6 tasks in the list.

Marking a task as done: done

Marks the specified task as done in the task list.

Format: done [index]

• index refers to the task’s index in the task list (e.g. ACC assignment has index 1)

Example of usage: done 5

Expected outcome:

Nice! I’ve marked this task as done:
[✓] School Fees

Deleting a task: delete

Removes the specified task from the task list.

Format: delete [index]

• index refers to the task’s index in the task list (e.g. ACC assignment has index 1)

Example of usage: delete 2

Expected outcome:

Noted. I’ve removed this task:
[E][✘] Formal Dinner (at: Sep 17 2020)

Asking for help: help

Displays the help page.

Format: help

Expected outcome:

I see that you need some help!

Here are a list of Duke commands ([] indicates user input):

1. list - shows a list of your existing tasks
2. find [keyword] - shows a list of existing tasks which contain the given keyword
3. todo [description] - adds a todo with a description
4. deadline [description] /by [date in yyyy-mm-dd format] - adds a deadline with a description and a deadline
5. event [description] /at [date in yyyy-mm-dd format] - adds an event with a description and an event date
6. done [index] - marks the specified task as done
7. delete [index] - deletes the specified task from the task list
8. help - shows the help page
9. bye - exits the application

Exiting the application: bye

Exits the application.

Format: bye

Expected outcome:

Bye. Hope to see you again soon!