Claudia User Guide

Claudia is a Personal Assistant Chatbot to help the user keep track of their tasks using the Command Line Interface (CLI).

Table of Contents

• Features
  • Adding ToDo
  • Adding Deadline
  • Adding Event
  • Listing all tasks
  • Mark a task
  • Unmark a task
  • Delete a task
  • Find a task
  • Tag a task
  • Exit Claudia Chatbot
  • Saving the data
• FAQ
• Acknowledgements

Features

Adding ToDo

ToDo: task without any date/time attached to it

Format: todo DESCRIPTION

Example: todo borrow book

Adding Deadline

Deadline: task that needs to be done before a specific date/time

Format: deadline DESCRIPTION /by DATE

Example: deadline return book /by 05/02/2025 1000

Adding Event

Event: task that starts at a specific date/time and ends at a specific date/time

Format: event DESCRIPTION /from DATE /to DATE

Example: event project meeting /from 06/02/2025 1000 /to 06/02/2025 1200

Listing all tasks

Shows a list of all the user's tasks.

Format: list

Mark a task

Mark a task as done.

Format: mark INDEX

Example: mark 2

Unmark a task

Unmark to change the status back to not done.

Format: unmark INDEX

Example: unmark 2

Delete a task

Delete the specified task from the list.

Format: delete INDEX

• Deletes the task at the specified INDEX
• The index refers to the index number shown in the task list.
• The index must be a positive integer 1, 2, 3...

Example:

• list followed by delete 3 deletes the 3rd task in the list

Find a task

Find tasks that contains any of the given keywords.

Format: find KEYWORD [MORE_KEYWORDS]

• The search is case-insensitive. e.g. book will match Book
• The order of the keywords does not matter. e.g. book project will match project book
• Only the task description is searched.
• Oly full words will be matched e.g. Book will not match Books
• Tasks matching at least one keyword will be returned (i.e. OR search). e.g. book will return borrow book, return book

Example:

• find project returns project meeting

Tag a task

Tag a task with one or more tags.

Format: tag INDEX TAG [MORE_TAGS]

Example:

• tag 2 school urgent
• #school and #urgent will be tagged to Task 2

Exit Claudia Chatbot

Terminates Claudia Chatbot session.

Format: bye

Saving the data

Task list data are saved automatically as a TXT file [JAR file location]/data/claudia.txt. Advanced users are welcome to update data directly by editing that data file.

❗Caution: If your changes to the data file makes its format invalid, Claudia will return an error parsing data. Hence, it is recommended to take a backup of the file before editing it. Edit the data file only if you are confident that you can update it correctly.

FAQ

Q: How do I transfer my data to another Computer?

A: Install the jar file in the other computer and overwrite the empty data file it creates with the file that contains the data of your previous Claudia folder.

Q: How to run Claudia Chatbot?

A: Install the jar file under GitHub Releases in this repository. Navigate to the folder with claudia.jar using the cd command. Run the command java -jar claudia.jar.

Acknowledgements

Part of the JavaDocs comments were generated with the assistance of ChatGPT.