A minimal command-line tool for using the todoist service.
Honestly, there isn't much of a use case for this, unless you just really love command-line applications. There are some conveniences to this, such as being able to access your todo's or lists straight from the terminal and still be able to leverage the cloud benefits of the Todoist service. This is a lot nicer of a set-up if you're a developer who spends lots of his/her time in terminals. Besides that, and maybe some other angles you can approach this project at positively, this is honestly not that useful and the Todoist chrome extension or website does the job more than well enough (plus it exposes lots of features that this project will probably never support because I don't care for them).
The last parenthetical however is the first half of the personal motivation for
creating this project. I adore minimalism, and in fact, I am obsessively in
desire of minimalism. I use vim so I can avoid the bells & whistles of all
other editors. Todoist is a wonderful service with an impressively large
selection of features, of which I use perhaps 1% of. I like my things being
simple. This project lets me leverage the multiple-device support the Todoist
service offers without having to deal with the extra features.
The other half of motivations for this project is simply one of hobbyist interest. I felt like this would be a great way to explore interface design. I believe that was correct. A quick perusal through the issues will show me iterating on interface designs for this project as I use it more and find points of high friction in day-to-day use. Along with that, there is a lot to be said about how one should structure the implementation of a project like this. The 'interface' exploration here is both user-facing and developer-facing. In other words, I think it is a cool project. Fortunately (or unfortunately), although this is the other 'half', it is probably the primary reason for making this project :).