Ben pointed me at JavaAIMbot. It's pretty neat, and does most of the things I wanted for chatbots for todo list management.
TomCardenUK: remember get a TV license
JavaAIMBot: Reminder stored.
TomCardenUK: remember tidy up before visitors arrive this weekend
JavaAIMBot: Reminder stored.
TomCardenUK: remember post lecturing invoice
JavaAIMBot: Reminder stored.
TomCardenUK: remind
JavaAIMBot: Reminders:
1) get a TV license
2) tidy up before visitors arrive this weekend
3) post lecturing invoice
TomCardenUK: forget 2
JavaAIMBot: Reminder removed.
TomCardenUK: remind
JavaAIMBot: Reminders:
1) get a TV license
2) post lecturing invoice
Now, if it backed onto a service like Basecamp which let me publish todo lists to the web, that would be really cool.
Since there's a bewildering array of sort-of matches from a quick look on Google, I thought I'd just put this out there.
I want to have a chat bot as a "to do" stack / list manager, something like:
> todo.push "blog about AIM todo stack bot"
todo: 1 item
> todo.push "AIM bot ideas"
todo: 2 items
> todo.list
blog about AIM todo stack bot
AIM bot ideas
> todo.peek
blog about AIM todo stack bot
> todo.pop
done: blog about AIM todo stack bot
> todo.list
AIM bot ideas
> done.list
blog about AIM todo stack bot
And so on. It's a chatbot rather than a command line utility or a website because I want it to follow me home and I want it to be private and immediate. This must have been done?
Thanks to prompting from Jack, I'm now available on AIM as TomCardenUK, as well as my usual IM haunt of MSN Messenger as tom [at] smileyface [dot] com (but I'll never answer email at that address, so don't bother using it for anything else).
Update: tom.carden on Google Talk, if you were wondering.
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