Use case: Alexa skill

I jsut want to link Taskade to Akiflow man :(

My current thinking around the API access is being able to spawn new tasks within projects and connect them myself.

Most of what I want to do is be able to edit nodes, updating or adding context when nodes are added to certain projects / blocks within projects.

For instance I currently track all the movies I want to watch in a Movies project that is much faster for me to append to than opening up trakt.tv. Recently, I have been able to manually insert context through the AI or if the movie is older than 2021, just using ; This totally works for reminding me what the movie is about. I want to be able to see the movie art - so I'll probably write a little bit of code that polls or subscribes to the list in question for when there are new entries to download the movie poster from a place like moviedb, imdb and then upload it to taskade - so I have a cover art view of the movies I'd like to watch. I'd also simplify the task of writing or manually and simply just get the from a service like moviedb, trakt, imdb.

I have more lists that I want to "Consume" under a Consume folder - including TV Shows, Anime, Manga, Books. I would have fun writing integrations for all of them to start feeling out the way I'm currently working and so I can backfill old entries that don't have context.

For these cases I wouldn't mind doing infrequent polling against the API every hour and doing something like that where I then grab what's new and feed it through some process to grab the data and form it to be appended / inserted back under or on the node that's new.

I am thinking the API would be polling based. I wouldn't mind doing pubsub, but I don't have a lot in mind (right now) for doing stuff in real-time. I have the expectation of what I write isn't that useful to other people unless they have a Movies project like me, which maybe people would do in the future if they find it useful.

Another idea I had was bridging a Discord channel's tasks into a task list for a team. The project I was working on that would've been able to used this immediately was disbanded due to lack of funding, but I think there would be a point in the future where I'm asking people inside a Disocrd server to create issues by writing a message in a specific channel which I would track in taskade or github issues.

Linking to github issues is another interest of mine. I'd like to two-way syncing for github issues where right now you can basically mirror it with something like Zapier. Of course I'd also like to be able to just be able to plugin a Taskade project's webhook link into a github project's webhooks, but that's out of scope for this and think there's already a feature request for enabling webhooks in some way. (Discord's channel webhook can interpret github POSTs out of the box.)

To summarize my use cases around the API would be:

My use case mostly spin around creating project and task on taskade from different sources. Like when a new order coming in from Flowtrack/ Google sheet etc, I would like to have taskade create a new project in certain workspace so my VA can pick up new task to work on.

My use case is actually quite simple:

My girlfriend and I use Taskade for weekly meal planning (as well as other various todo-lists). I would like to be able to pull out all projects (archived and not) with a tag (like "#mealplan") and read out the plan so I can do statistics on what we have been cooking (and perhaps also purchased) that week.

The long-term term vision would probably be to create meal plans automatically (perhaps using AI) using our existing plans as context. I have tried using AI to generate our meal plans before but it never really "hits the spot" in terms of what we would like to eat and is never in the right format.

I would also like to automatically move grocery tasks (again found in the same #mealplan) that have not been purchased this week to the next week. (It could be quite nice if the AI assistant could move tasks!)

Capabilities:

1) API for Task Creation: An API endpoint that allows external systems to create new tasks or sub-tasks within a specific project or folder.

Example Use Case: When working on various types of projects, an external AI could automatically populate tasks based on the project's main theme.

2) API for Task Update: An endpoint that allows for the modification of existing tasks, including their status, priority, and other metadata.

Example Use Case: An AI could dynamically adjust task priorities based on real-time data.

3) API for Task Deletion: An endpoint to remove tasks or sub-tasks, useful for cleaning up after a project phase is complete.

Example Use Case: An AI could automatically remove redundant or completed tasks to keep the project clean.

4) API for List and Folder Creation: An endpoint to create new lists or folders within a workspace.

Example Use Case: When starting a new type of project, an AI could set up the initial structure within Taskade.

5) API for Data Retrieval: An endpoint to fetch data about tasks, lists, and folders, including their current status, due dates, and more.

Example Use Case: An AI could pull this data for generating reports or for further analysis.

6) API for User Assignment: An endpoint to assign or reassign tasks to specific users within a workspace.

Example Use Case: An AI could automatically assign tasks to team members based on their current workload.

7) API for Commenting: An endpoint that allows external systems to add comments to tasks or lists.

Example Use Case: An AI could add comments to tasks based on updates or changes.

8) API for File Attachments: An endpoint to attach files to tasks or lists.

Example Use Case: An AI could automatically attach relevant documents or files to tasks.

9) API for Task Dependencies: An endpoint to set up task dependencies so that completing one task could trigger another.

Example Use Case: An AI could set up dependencies between tasks based on project requirements.

10) API for Notifications: An endpoint to trigger notifications based on task events.

Example Use Case: An AI could send notifications when significant milestones are reached.

ALFRED APP

Hi everyone,

As we're nearing the launch of Taskade API, we'd appreciate it if you could provide specific requirements and use cases you're considering for the API. Feel free to comment here.

Your insights will be invaluable to our development process. Thanks for your patience and partnership!

If you'd like early access, please reach out directly through our contact page https://www.taskade.com/contact with your Taskade account and use cases.