Billy User Guide

Billy is task management application for managing regular tasks, deadlines and events. Billy interacts with the user using a CLI (Command Line Interface).

Prerequisites: JDK 11.

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For First-time Users:

1. Download Billy.jar into your desired directory.
2. Run java -jar Billy.jar within the directory where Billy.jar is located to launch the program.
3. When the program runs, a new folder data containing BillyData.txt will be created.

Using Billy:

Upon startup, the user will be greeted with the following message.

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Hello! I'm Billy
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Following which, the user can use the CLI to make use of Billy's respective features.

Notes about the command format:

• Words in <UPPER_CASE> surrounded by angle brackets are required parameters to be supplied by the user
• Items in square brackets [ ] are optional.

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Summary of Features

• Add a to-do task
• Add a deadline
• Add an event
• List current tasks
• Mark tasks as done
• Find tasks containing a given description
• Delete tasks
• Terminate program

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todo - Add a to-do task

Format: todo <DESCRIPTION>

Example: todo Buy an apple

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deadline - Add a deadline

Format: deadline <DESCRIPTION> /by <DATE> [TIME]

• Date is to be input in the following format: dd/MM/yyyy

• Time is to be input in the following format: HH:mm

Example 1: deadline Finish homework /by 29/12/2021 23:59

Example 2: deadline Finish homework /by 29/12/2021

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event - Add an event

Format: event <DESCRIPTION> /at <DATE> [TIME]

• Date is to be input in the following format: dd/MM/yyyy

• Time is to be input in the following format: HH:mm

Example 1: event Concert /at 29/12/2021 20:00

Example 2: event Concert /at 29/12/2021

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list - Display the current list of tasks with their respective IDs

Format: list

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done - Mark tasks as done

Format: done <TASK_IDs>

• Multiple tasks can be marked as done with a single command as long as the task IDs are separated by any character.

Example 1: done 1 2 3

Example 2: done 1, 2 and 3

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find - Find a task with a given description

Format: find <DESCRIPTION>

Example: find iP user guide increment

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delete - Delete tasks

Format: delete <TASK_IDs>

• Multiple tasks can be marked as done with a single command as long as the task IDs are separated by any character.

Example 1: delete 1 2 3

Example 2: delete 1, 2 and 3

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bye- Terminate the program

Format: bye

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