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chatbots for to-do list management?

In Imported, Uncategorized, Weblog on 1 February 2006 tagged Bots, Chat, Ideas, IM, Todo with 5 comments

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?

5 Comments

Damn you and your neat idea! I just had to hack this up. I wrote a quick bot in Perl which does this - it’s accessible at the AIM name ‘imtodobot’ (at least for tonight). The commands are:’todo’ - Show all items on the list.’done’ - Clear all items from the list.’done Some Phrase’ - Remove all items that match ‘Some Phrase’Anything else is added straight to your list.It’s purely a proof-of-concept, but I like the idea. Let me know what you think.

Posted by John on 2 February 2006 @ 6am

Hey John, that’s great, I’ll try it now. Lazyweb in action!It’s funny, I was looking at JQuery in quite a bit of detail yesterday, and now here you are.

Posted by Tom Carden on 2 February 2006 @ 11am

Ha! Funny how that works. Yeah, I’ve been reading your web log and del.icio.us links for a while now. I don’t remember how I found you - but there it is. Keep up the good ideas!

Posted by John on 2 February 2006 @ 2pm

Hi Tom, here are some more resources from an earlier post I wrote on chatbots: http://www.informationlab.org/index.php?p=176

Posted by Auke Touwslager on 7 February 2006 @ 4pm

hi tom,stumbled across this thread by accident. i am currently writing a processing chat library for the aim, irc, and jabber protocols. i havnt written the documentation yet, thats why the library is not online, but if you are interested in giving it a try for your todo-bot, let me know. andi theAt sojamo de

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