mostr

A nested task chat, powered by nostr!

Quickstart

First, start a nostr relay, such as

• https://github.com/coracle-social/bucket for local development
• https://github.com/rnostr/rnostr for production use

Run development build with:

cargo run

Creating a test task: nostril --envelope --content "test task" --kind 1621 | websocat ws://localhost:4736

Install latest build:

cargo install --path . --offline

Principles

• active task is tracked automatically
• progress through subdivision rather than guessing
• TBI: show/hide closed/done tasks

Recommendation: Flat hierarchy, using tags for filtering (TBI)

Reference

Command Syntax

TASK creation syntax: NAME: TAG1 TAG2 ...

• TASK - create task
• . - clear filters and reload
• .TASK
  • select task by id
  • match by task name prefix: if one or more tasks match, filter / activate (tries case-sensitive then case-insensitive)
  • no match: create & activate task
• .2 - set view depth to 2, which can be substituted for any number (how many subtask levels to show, default 1)

Dots can be repeated to move to parent tasks

• :[IND][COL] - add / remove property column COL to IND or end
• >[TEXT] - Complete active task and move to parent, with optional state description
• <[TEXT] - Close active task and move to parent, with optional state description
• |TEXT - Set state for current task from text (also aliased to / for now)
• -TEXT - add text note (comment / description)

Property Filters:

• #TAG - filter by tag
• ?STATE - filter by state (type or description) - plain ? to reset

State descriptions can be used for example for Kanban columns. An active tag or state filter will also set that attribute for newly created tasks.

Available Columns

• id
• parentid
• name
• state
• hashtags
• tags - values of all nostr tags associated with the event, except event tags
• desc - last note on the task
• description - accumulated notes on the task
• path - name including parent tasks
• rpath - name including parent tasks up to active task
• time - time tracked on this task
• rtime - time tracked on this tasks and all recursive subtasks
• progress - recursive subtask completion in percent
• subtasks - how many direct subtasks are complete

For debugging: props, alltags, descriptions

TBI: Combined formatting and recursion specifiers - for example progress count/percentage and recursive or not. Subtask progress immediate/all/leafs.

Plans

• Relay Selection, fetch most recent tasks first
• parse Hashtag tags from task name
• Personal time tracking
• Unified Filter object -> include sub
• Time tracking: Active not as task state, ability to postpone task and add planned timestamps (calendar entry)
• TUI - Clear terminal?
• Expiry (no need to fetch potential years of history)
• Offline caching
• Web Interface, Messenger integrations
• Relay: filter out task state updates within few seconds, also on client side