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I don't know about you but I always have a PowerShell session open and find it easier to manage my day right from a prompt.\u00a0 I find ways to use PowerShell whenever I can. Recently I started a project to help me manage my work and of course I created it in PowerShell.\u00a0 I had been keeping daily to-do lists on paper with little tasks or reminders. I work from home and don't have an assistant or anything so I am responsible for my own schedule. Sometimes I need a little help remembering what to work on next or what's upcoming. so I created a PowerShell module called MyTasks.<\/p>\n

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As I was developing the module I considered several options for storing my task or to-do data. A database seemed the likely candidate but I didn't want to have to include any dependencies or complicate the installation and setup. I thought about SQL Server Express and even NoSQL and SQLite. But in the end I realized I'll only ever need to manage a small set of items and only for myself. Storing data in a file should be just fine. I then decided on storing the data in an XML file. I also made the big decision to use a PowerShell class to define the task item.<\/p>\n

My strategy was to use the XML file for persistent storage and when I needed to work with the tasks, write functions to create instances of the class populated with data from the XML file. To add a new task is as easy as this.<\/p>\n

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The command allows me to set a due date by an actual date, or I can specify a certain number of days.<\/p>\n

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Did you notice the Category? By default, the module supports a pre-defined set of categories.<\/p>\n

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But you can create your own list. Once you do, the default categories are ignored unless you add them back.<\/p>\n

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The functions that use categories have a dynamic parameter to autoload the values. Let me jump into the PowerShell ISE to demonstrate.<\/p>\n

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Use Get-MyTask to view all of the tasks.<\/p>\n

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The default is to show all tasks that have not been completed. There are a few other options so look at help for Get-MyTask.<\/p>\n

Or course I need to be able to modify a task to show I'm working on it, or to change properties like the due date or category.<\/p>\n

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I also wrote an alternative to Get-MyTask called Show-MyTask that only writes to the console using Write-Host<\/a>. I did this so that I could colorize the output to show me overdue and almost due tasks.<\/p>\n

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The default is to ignore completed tasks unless I use -All. And completing tasks is as easy as running Complete-MyTask -name Demo.<\/p>\n

There are a few other commands in the module you can look at. Everything should have complete help and examples. There is even an About help topic<\/p>\n

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So where can you get your hands on this? Right now this is still a project on GitHub<\/a>. I'd love for at least a few people to try it out, kick it around and let me know what you think.\u00a0 At some point I can then publish it to the PowerShell Gallery.\u00a0 But for now, test it out from GitHub and post any questions, comments or suggestions in the Issues section.<\/p>\n

Enjoy staying organized. I know I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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