dave

Dave - CLI Personal assistant

About

This is my first project written in Go. Dave is a CLI tool which automates some taks I do at work such as: add a reminder for a certain day and receive and email me when time is due, add credentials from various projects, cancel the noise by blocking certain websites. In the future I might add new commands.

Requirements

Go should be installed and set up on your system. Tested with version go1.7.1

So far this tool is available only for Linux distributions. However besides focus and focus-clear, the rest of the commands should also work on Windows/Mac OS.

SQLite must be installed on your system. This version was tested with sqlite3.

You should have a mailgun account. You can set-up a free account there and just use the sandbox credentials. It should be enough for the reminders you add(max 10.000 mails per month).

Installation

• Prepare the executable

$ go get github.com/zuzuleinen/dave
$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/zuzuleinen/dave/
$ go install
$ dave install
$ dave

• Add your e-mail and the list of websites you want to block in dave/config/user.go
• Add mailgun credentials in dave/config/mailgun.go
• Set up the daemon which can be started with $ dave cli

Usage

Usage:
    dave <command> [argument]
    dave  check    'a link to an article you want to read later'

List of commands:
  install:        Install the SQLite database.
  remind:         Create a new reminder.
  reminders:      List all pending reminders.
  credential:     Add a new credential record.
  credentials:    List all credentials.
  focus:          Block websites from config/user.go/FavouriteWebSites
  focus-clear:    Unblock websites from config/user.go/FavouriteWebSites
  check:          Send an e-mail with subject "check this" and body the string argument



Options:
  -h --help         Show this screen.
  -v, --version     Show version.

Since dave focus and dave focus-clear requires sudo, you should add an alias. Add these 2 lines in you .bashrc file: alias focus='sudo env "PATH=$PATH" dave focus'
alias focus-clear='sudo env "PATH=$PATH" dave focus-clear'
Now, you can use focus and focus-clear commands.

Setting up the daemon

To be able to receive your reminders, you need to set up the daemon which basically just loops over you reminders and send them to your e-mail when it's time. Since I'm using Ubuntu, I use upstart. But you can also use Supervisor or daemonize to set up the daemon. Here are the steps for setting up your daemon with upstart:

Create a configuration file for your daemon: sudo vim /etc/init/dave.conf

Add the following contents and make sure to replace andrei with your user and /home/andrei/Projects/bin/dave with the path to your dave executable(it should be in the $GOPATH/bin):

description "Run the dave daemon"

setuid andrei
start on runlevel [2345]

exec /home/andrei/Projects/bin/dave cli

Check that your syntax is OK:

sudo init-checkconf /etc/init/dave.conf

Start your service

sudo service dave start

Questions or suggestions

If you encounter a problem feel free to open an issue or send me an e-mail at andrey.boar[at]gmail.com