Alex User Guide

Alex is a chatbot that allows you to store and manage your tasks all in one place! Tasks are separated into 3 categories: Todos, deadlines, and events.

Features:

• Viewing your list of tasks: list
• Adding a task : todo / deadline / event
• Marking a task: mark
• Unmarking a task: unmark
• Deleting a task: delete
• Finding tasks by keyword: find
• Viewing tasks that end on a certain date: tasks on
• Tagging a task: tag

Installation

1. Ensure you have Java 17 or above installed in your computer.
2. Download the latest .jar file from here.
3. Copy the file to the folder you want to use as the home folder for your chatbot.
4. Open a command terminal, cd into the folder you put the jar file in.
5. Use this command to run the application. A GUI should appear in a few seconds.

java -jar alex.jar

Some example commands you can try:

• todo assignment adds a todo task called assignment to the list
• list shows all tasks in the list
• mark 1 marks the first task as done
• delete 1 deletes the first task in the list

Features

Viewing your list of tasks: list

Shows a list of all tasks saved in storage. Format: list

Adding a todo task : todo / deadline / event

Adds a task to the list.

Todo tasks only consist of the description of the task.

Format: todo DESCRIPTION

Examples:

• todo read a book
• todo submit assignment

Deadline tasks consist of description of task and the due date.

Format: deadline DESCRIPTION /by DUEDATE

Examples:

• todo read a book /by 2024-09-01
• todo submit assignment /by 2024-09-09

Marking a task: mark / Unmarking a task: unmark

Marks a task as completed / Unmarks a task as uncompleted based on its INDEX in the list.

Format: mark INDEX / unmark INDEX

Examples:

• mark 1 marks the first task in the list as completed.
• unmark 3 marks the third task in the list as uncompleted.

Deleting a task: delete

Deletes a task from the list based on its INDEX in the list.

Format: delete INDEX

Examples:

• delete 1 deletes the first task in the list.

Finding tasks by keyword: find

Goes through the list and finds tasks that match the specified KEYWORD.

Format: find KEYWORD

Examples:

• find submit finds all tasks in the list that have the keyword 'submit'.
• find book finds all tasks in the list that have the keyword 'book'.

Viewing tasks that end on a certain date: tasks on

Goes through the list and finds tasks that end on the specified DUEDATE.

Format: tasks on DUEDATE , where DUEDATE is in the form YYYY-MM-DD.

Examples:

• tasks on 2024-09-09 returns all deadline or event tasks that end on the specified DUEDATE.

Tagging a task: tag

Tags a certain task with the specified LABEL based on its INDEX in the list.

Format: tag INDEX LABEL

Examples: tag 1 fun tags the first task in the list with the label 'fun'.