Moving from Dooit V2 to V3

First of all, thanks you so much if you've been using dooit already. Really means a lot to me!

How to migrate?

Since I've rewrote the app from scratch, every single thing is pretty much changed but in a good way.
You still have almost everything (dont worry, the replacements are sane) from v2 + extra on top of that ⭐

There are two steps to migrate from v2:

Migrating Data

Run this in the terminal and it should be taken care of:
You'll also be prompted for this if not already done

bash

dooit migrate

Migrating Config

This requires a bit more work but completly an easy process.

Below, I'll split parts of it and provide you with newer format

Let's start

Colors

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Check out Theme for more info

Old

dark_black = "#252a34"
black = "#2e3440"
white = "#e5e9f0"
grey = "#d8dee9"
red = "#bf616a"
frost_green = "#8fbcbb"
cyan = "#88c0d0"
green = "#a3be8c"
yellow = "#ebcb8b"
blue = "#81a1c1"
magenta = "#b48ead"
orange = "#d08770"

New

Dooit now has a dedicated theme api for colors so that the colors will match properly with everything

from dooit.ui.api import DooitAPI, subscribe
from dooit.ui.api.events import Startup

@subscribe(Startup)
def foo(api: DooitAPI, _):
    theme = api.vars.theme

Dashboard

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Check out Dashboard for more info

❕ NOTE

I have removed the ascii dashboard section from old config since it takes too much lines of code For that please check out Dashboard section and Sample configs from Dooit Extras

Dashboard hasn't changed much, just that you call a different function to set it + now you have better color support

Old

ART = "some ascii art"
NL = " \n"
SEP = colored("─" * 60, "d " + grey) # some function to color
help_message = f"Press {colored('?', magenta)} to spawn help menu"
DASHBOARD = [ART, NL, SEP, NL, NL, NL, help_message]

New

from dooit.ui.api import DooitAPI, subscribe
from dooit.ui.api.events import Startup
from rich.text import Text


@subscribe(Startup)
def dashboard_setup(api: DooitAPI, _):

    def colored(text, color):
        return Text(text, style = color).markup

    theme = api.vars.theme

    ART = "some ascii art"
    NL = " \n"
    SEP = Text("─" * 60, "d " + theme.background3)
    help_message = f"Press {colored('?', magenta)} to spawn help menu"
    DASHBOARD = [ART, NL, SEP, NL, NL, NL, help_message]

    api.dashboard.set(DASHBOARD)

Bar

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Check out Bar for more info

❕ NOTE

The function get_message is now of no use hence removed.
Dooit will now flash any kind of messages covering the whole bar

Old

def get_status(status):
    return colored(f" {status} ", "r " + blue)


def get_message(message):
    return " " + message


def get_clock() -> Text:
    return Text(f"{datetime.now().time().strftime(' %X ')}", "r " + cyan)


def get_username():
    try:
        username = os.getlogin()
    except OSError:
        uid = os.getuid()
        import pwd

        username = pwd.getpwuid(uid).pw_name
    return Text(f" {username} ", "r " + blue)

bar = {
    "A": [(get_status, 0.1)],
    "C": [(get_clock, 1), (get_username)],
}

New

Most of the common widgets that you might wanna have should already be in dooit-extras If you still want to have custom functions, check out Custom widget and use the above functions like that

from dooit_extras.bar_widgets import Mode, Spacer, Clock, Date
from dooit.ui.api.events import Startup
from dooit.ui.api import DooitAPI, subscribe


@subscribe(Startup)
def setup(api: DooitAPI, _):
    theme = api.vars.theme
    api.bar.set( 
        [
            Mode(api),
            Spacer(api, width = 0),
            Clock(api, fmt=" 󰥔 {} ", bg=theme.yellow),
            Spacer(api, width = 1),
            Date(api, fmt = " {} ")
        ]
    )

Layout

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Check out Layouts for more info

Dooit now provides a layout api to order your columns

Old

COLUMN_ORDER = ["description", "due", "urgency"]  # order of columns

New

from dooit.ui.api.widgets import TodoWidget, WorkspaceWidget

@subscribe(Startup)
def layout_setup(api: DooitAPI, _):
    api.layouts.workspace_layout = [WorkspaceWidget.description]

    api.layouts.todo_layout = [
        TodoWidget.status,
        TodoWidget.description, 
        TodoWidget.recurrence,
        TodoWidget.due,
        TodoWidget.urgency,
    ]

Formatting

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Check out Formatters for more info

Formatting for workspaces and todos is now even more customizable!
You can use dooit formatters to custom format your items 😄

Plus, some general settings from the old config as well

Old

#################################
#           WORKSPACE           #
#################################
WORKSPACE = {
    "editing": cyan,
    "pointer": ">",
    "children_hint": "+",  # "[{count}]", # vars: count
    "start_expanded": False,
}

COLUMN_ORDER = ["description", "due", "urgency"]  # order of columns
TODO = {
    "color_todos": False,
    "editing": cyan,
    "pointer": ">",
    "children_hint": colored(
        " ({done}/{total})", green
    ),  # vars: remaining, done, total
    # "children_hint": "[b magenta]({remaining}!)[/b magenta]",
    "due_icon": "? ",
    "effort_icon": "+",
    "effort_color": yellow,
    "recurrence_icon": "!",
    "recurrence_color": blue,
    "tags_color": red,
    "completed_icon": "x",
    "pending_icon": "o",
    "overdue_icon": "!",
    "urgency1_icon": "A",
    "urgency2_icon": "B",
    "urgency3_icon": "C",
    "urgency4_icon": "D",
    "start_expanded": False,
    "initial_urgency": 1,
    "urgency1_color": "green",
    "urgency2_color": "yellow",
    "urgency3_color": "orange",
    "urgency4_color": "red",
}

Keybindings

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Check out Keys for more info

Keybidings now are much more easier to understand and implement + now you get support for custom keybindings executing some custom code

You can get a full list of available api functions here

Old

keybindings = {
    "switch pane": "<tab>",
    "sort menu toggle": "<ctrl+s>",
    "start search": ["/", "S"],
    "remove item": "xx",
    "edit effort": "e",
    "edit recurrence": "r",
}

New

@subscribe(Startup)
def key_setup(api: DooitAPI, _):
    api.keys.set("j", api.move_down)
    api.keys.set("k", api.move_up)
    api.keys.set("i", api.edit_description)
    api.keys.set("d", api.edit_due)
    api.keys.set("r", api.edit_recurrence)
    api.keys.set("a", api.add_sibling)
    api.keys.set("z", api.toggle_expand)
    api.keys.set("Z", api.toggle_expand_parent)
    api.keys.set("gg", api.go_to_top)
    api.keys.set("G", api.go_to_bottom)
    api.keys.set("A", api.add_child_node)
    api.keys.set("J", api.shift_down)
    api.keys.set("K", api.shift_up)
    api.keys.set("xx", api.remove_node)
    api.keys.set("c", api.toggle_complete)
    api.keys.set("=,+", api.increase_urgency)
    api.keys.set("-,_", api.decrease_urgency)
    api.keys.set("/", api.start_search)
    api.keys.set("<ctrl+s>", api.start_sort)

Moving from Dooit V2 to V3 ​

How to migrate? ​

Migrating Data ​

Migrating Config ​

Colors ​

Old ​

New ​

Dashboard ​

Old ​

New ​

Bar ​

Old ​

New ​

Layout ​

Old ​

New ​

Formatting ​

Old ​

Keybindings ​

Old ​

New ​

Moving from Dooit V2 to V3

How to migrate?

Migrating Data

Migrating Config

Colors

Old

New

Dashboard

Old

New

Bar

Old

New

Layout

Old

New

Formatting

Old

Keybindings

Old

New