Monique User Guide

Introducing Monique

Handle the fire and messiness of life with Monique :)

Monique is a desktop chat-bot app for managing your todo list

Quick Guide to using Monique

Ensuring required installation of java is fulfilled

This project uses Java 17. Ensure that your PC has this first

Launching monique

1. Download the latest 'Monique.jar' file linked here.

2. Navigate to the folder where you downloaded the Monique.jar file.

3. Run monique using the following command:

java -jar monique.jar

4. The app will launch. To find out more about the commands, you can type "/commands"

Here is a few commands you can try:

• `list' : Monique will list all tasks on your deadlines
• 'find XX YY' : Monique will search through your tasks to find related tasks which contains "XX" and/or "YY"
• 'delete 1' : Monique will delete the first task on your task list

5. Refer to the features below to get more in depth explanation of each command.

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Features

List Tasks

To list all current tasks, type list. This command will display all tasks along with their statuses.

list

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Mark/Unmark a Task

To mark a task as complete, type mark {task_number}. For example, mark 1 will mark task 1 as complete. Conversely, to unmark a task as incomplete, type unmark {task_number}. For example, unmark 2 will mark task 2 as incomplete. Note that tasks are indexed starting from 1.

For example, you can do this to mark the first task as complete.

mark 1

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Add a Todo Task

To add a todo item, type todo {description}. For instance, todo read a book will add "read a book" to your tasks.

For example, this adds a todo task of 'homework'

todo homework

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Add a Deadline Task

To add a deadline item, type deadline {description} /by {date} {optional_time}. For example, deadline submit report /by 12-12-2024 1700 adds a task with a deadline of December 12, 2024, at 5:00 PM. Valid date formats include:

• Days of the week ("Monday" to "Sunday" or abbreviations like "mon" to "sun")
• Date formats such as "DD/MM/YYYY", "DD-MM-YYYY"
• "tomorrow"

Valid time formats are:

• "HHmm" for 24-hour format
• "h:mm" or "h:m" for 12-hour format with am/pm

For example, this adds a deadline for 'homework' to the next day at 5pm

deadline homework /by tomorrow 5:00pm

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Add an Event Task

To add an event item, type event {description} /from {start_date} {start_time} /to {end_date} {end_time}. For example, event meeting /from tomorrow 1400 /to 12-12-2024 1700 schedules an event starting from tomorrow at 2:00 PM and ending on December 12, 2024, at 5:00 PM. For example, this adds an event for 'chilling w the homies' from the next day 6pm to 7pm

event chilling w the homies /from tomorrow 6:00pm /to tomorrow 11:59pm

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Delete a Task

To delete a task, type delete {task_number}. For example, delete 3 will delete the task numbered 3.

For example, this deletes the first task

delete 1

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Find a Task

To find a task that contains a (few) key phrases, type find {search_key 1} {search_key 2} .... If you are only searching for 1 task, you may omit the other search keys.

For example, this command will search for tasks that contain the phrases "homework" or "assignment"

find homework assignment

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Exit the Application and Save data

To exit the application, type bye. This command will save your progress and close the application.

bye

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