I am trying to create an applescript that will automatically change to the priority of the todo list item based on the due date.
I have found an application called Things that is scriptable.
I also have the script addition Satimage.osax which has some useful commands.
I have started the applescript using Things at the moment I have it sorting the to do by priority.
I would like it to sorted them by date and if there are two with the same date then to look in the notes of the to do where I put the time and sort them by time.
The code below is what I have so far which sorts them by priority.
Main
tell application "Things"
try
close window "Things"
end try
set thelist to {}
set theToDos to to do of list "today"
set theCount to count theToDos
repeat with i from 1 to theCount
set ToDo to to do i of list "today"
set thename to name of ToDo
set theduedate to due date of ToDo
set theduedate to date string of theduedate
set thenote to notes of ToDo
set thepriority to tag names of ToDo
set theToDo to "• " & thename & return & "due: " & theduedate & return & thenote & return & "priority: " & thepriority & return
set end of thelist to theToDo
end repeat
set listCount to count thelist
set new_list to {}
repeat with f from 1 to listCount
set itemlist to get item f of thelist
set lastword to last word of itemlist
if lastword is equal to "High" then
set beginning of new_list to itemlist
else if lastword is equal to "Medium" then
set end of new_list to itemlist
else if lastword is equal to "Low" then
set end of new_list to itemlist
end if
end repeat
tell application "Finder"
activate
display dialog new_list as string buttons {"OK"} default button 1
end tell
end tell
the code below can be used to extract to time from the notes as I put other information in the notes as well as the time in this format 14:00.
set theOffset to offset of ":" in thenote
set num to theOffset - 2
set thetime to text (theOffset + 2) thru num of thenote
set thehours to characters 1 thru 2 of thetime as string
set themins to characters 4 thru 5 of thetime as string
here is the command to set the priority in things below
set tag names of ToDo to "High" --"Medium" or "Low"
the ToDo is a variable I set in the main code above.
thanks for any help
