ticked

ticked opens your ticktick.com inbox in your favorite editor (vim/neovim, for example) so you able to edit them (modify title/body or "mark as done") from it (yes, from your lovely editor).

Demo

Features

• uses web api
• have 2 modes: "[e]dit" and "[d]elete"

Installation

With cargo:

cargo install ticked

Preparation

You need to extract value of cookie named "t" from authorized session on ticktick.com site.

Usage

TICKTICK_COOKIE=<your_cookie_there> ticked

(you may want to create wrapper script for this)

It will open your $EDITOR with tasks from your ticktick inbox list. On the first line you'll see # Mode: d. There is two possible modes: d and e. Just edit this line to select mode you want.

Mode d (delete/done)

In d mode program detects only deleted tasks and then marks them as "done" on ticktick side. Under the hood it detects if some of the original lines disappeared. So if in this mode you'll edit some task title, it will be considered as this task disappeared, hence should be removed. So be careful.

Mode e (edit)

In d mode program detects changes of tasks and then update them on ticktick side. Under the hood it compares line by line in original order and looks for changed lines, so you shouldn't reorder lines in this mode, as it will mess everything.

When all done, just save file and close editor. ticked will show your changes and ask for final confirmation.

Status / Future of the project

The code base is very dirty right now. Sorry.

I am currently in the process of migrating from ticktick to plaintext local files, so using this tool daily as easy way to extract inbox ("delete" mode).

(2023/05/16: I still use it and it works)

No active work is planned on this. I'll be happy to apply pull requests, or you may fork or just get inspiration (I'll be glad to add links to related projects/forks, so feel free to create issue for that). However, there is TODO.md file with old plans and thoughts.

"Edit" mode is not well tested. But ticked asks you to confirm any changes (in "delete" mode too), so it should be safe to use. Just review everything before confirm. And even if you'll mark something as done occasionally, you can find it in ticktick "completed" folder.

Related projects

• ticktask - a simple cli for creating tasks on ticktick.com.