taskpaper-to-slack

A tool for automating a workflow I'm following in my currect distributed team - we keep our daily todo lists public as messages on a Slack channel.

It works with plain text to-do lists created by Taskpaper.

How it works

It scans a Taskpaper file for nodes marked with @slack(channel/msg) and syncs them to Slack.

The message must already exist at slack.

Only task nodes are synced (text nodes remain private).

@done and @doing tags are are recognized.

Tags and what comes after them is removed.

Example

This taskpaper file:

Monday, 11 Feb: @slack(B05KSNDD4/p1549566229043400)
	- read emails @done spent 40m
	lunch break 1h
	- release new version @doing
		- ping support team about the release
	- comment on pull requests

Is posted to Slack as:

:calendar: *Monday, 11 Feb*
:done: read emails
:doing: release new version
     :todo: ping support team about the release
:todo: comment on pull requests

Usage

Run with:

SLACK_TOKEN=foo SLACK_SUBDOMAIN=baz ./taskpaper-to-slack tasks.taskpaper