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Duck User Guide

Duck is a friendly chatbot that manages your todo lists, deadlines and events, and is easy to setup and use.

Commands

There are 11 commands in total.

Interact with Duck

1. Say hi: quack
2. Say bye: bye

Create tasks

1. Tasks without deadlines: todo
2. Tasks with deadlines: deadline
3. Events with duration: event

Manage tasks

1. Delete task: delete
2. Mark task: mark
3. Unmark task: unmark
4. List of tasks: list
5. Search tasks: find
6. Snooze deadline: snooze

Usage

quack

Interact with Duck in his native language.

Example: quack

Expected outcome: Duck responds with a hello message.

    __________________________________________________________
    Quack quack!
    __________________________________________________________

bye

Say bye to Duck.

Example: bye

Expected outcome: Duck responds with a bye message, and the app closes after 3 seconds.

    __________________________________________________________
    Quack. Hope to see you again soon!
    __________________________________________________________

todo

Creates a task with no time attribute.

Example: todo buy groceries

Expected outcome: Stores a task with a description “buy groceries”

    __________________________________________________________
    I've added this task:
    [T][ ] buy groceries
    Now you have 1 tasks in the list.
    __________________________________________________________

deadline

Creates and stores a task with a deadline.

Example: deadline lab assignment /by 2025-02-19 23590

Expected outcome: Stores a task with a description “lab assignment” and deadline.

    __________________________________________________________
    I've added this task:
    [D][ ] lab assignment (by: 19 FEB 2025, 11:59PM)
    Now you have 1 tasks in the list.
    __________________________________________________________

event

Creates and stores an event with a duration.

You can also use the keyword now or later
now sets the time as the current time
later sets the time as a random time in the future.

Example 1: event study /from now /to later
Example 2: event study /from now /to 2025-02-18 0419

Expected outcome: Stores an event with a description “study session” and duration.

    __________________________________________________________
    I've added this task:
    [E][ ] study (from: 17 FEB 2025, 12:58PM to: 18 FEB 2025, 04:19AM)
    Now you have 1 tasks in the list.
    __________________________________________________________

delete

Deletes a task from your list of tasks.

Example: delete 1

Expected outcome: First task is deleted from the list.

    __________________________________________________________
    I've removed this task:
    [T][ ] buy groceries
    Now you have 0 tasks in the list.
    __________________________________________________________

mark

Marks a task as complete.

Example: mark 1

Expected outcome: Marks the first task.

    __________________________________________________________
    Nice! I've marked this task as done:
    [T][X] buy groceries
    __________________________________________________________

unmark

Marks a task as incomplete.

Example: unmark 1

Expected outcome: Removes the mark for the first task.

    __________________________________________________________
    oops! I've marked this task as not done yet:
    [T][ ] buy groceries
    __________________________________________________________

list

Shows the user the list of tasks stored.

Example: list

Expected outcome: Shows the list of tasks.

    __________________________________________________________
    Here are the tasks in your list:
    1.[T][ ] buy groceries
    2.[D][ ] lab assignment (by: 19 FEB 2025, 11:59PM)
    3.[E][ ] study (from: 17 FEB 2025, 12:58PM to: 18 FEB 2025, 04:19AM)
    __________________________________________________________

find

Searches for a task based on the user’s input.

Example: find assignment

Expected outcome: Searches for tasks with descriptions that contain the string “assignment”.

    __________________________________________________________
    Here are the matching tasks in your list:
    1.[D][ ] lab assignment (by: 19 FEB 2025, 11:59PM)
    __________________________________________________________

snooze

Sets the ‘by’ time for a deadline task to a random future date and time

Example: snooze 1

Expected outcome: Randomly sets the deadline for a Deadline task to the future

    __________________________________________________________
    Nice. I've snoozed this task:
    1.[D][ ] lab assignment (by: 22 FEB 2025, 04:20PM)
    __________________________________________________________

Command summary

Action	Format
todo	todo description (e.g. todo buy groceries)
deadline	deadline description /by yyyy-MM-dd HHmm
event	event description /from yyyy-MM-dd HHmm /to yyyy-MM-dd HHmm
delete	delete task number (e.g. delete 1)
mark	mark task number (e.g. mark 1)
unmark	unmark task number (e.g. unmark 1)
list	list
find	find keyword (e.g. find assignment)
snooze	snooze deadline task (e.g. snooze 1)