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Status

Every hour my Todoist labels are automatically sorted. Every four hours, I sort some projects according to my preference. Here is a video example of each:

Click here for the YouTube playlist of the above.

Code

You can find all my code and supporting files for this on my Github page.

Label sorting

• A CloudWatch event rule triggers a Step Function hourly.
• The Step Function triggers a Lamda execution which enumerates Todoist labels via a GET request to the Todoist REST endpoint.
• The labels are bubble sorted.
• A POST call to the Todoist endpoint with the desired label ordering completes the Lambda execution.

Task sorting

• A CloudWatch event rule triggers a Step Function every four hours.
• The Step Function triggers a Lamda execution which utilises a Lambda layer consisting of the official Python library for Todoist.
• The Lambda function is provided static JSON input which describes the sorting intention for each project.
• A Sync with Todoist is called to get the current task information.
• Each project has its tasks bubble sorted by the described intention and another sync with Todoist is performed.

Limitations

• Labels are assumed to be unordered each execution. As such, there may be superfluous calls to the API if the labels are already in order.
• The sort rules are static.

Aspirations

In order of preference:

• Provide a UI for modifying or creating new sort rules.
• Migrate the label sorting into the Sync API.
• Review the assumption that the labels are always out of order.

Relevant posts

• Using AWS Lamda with the Sync API
• Using AWS Step Functions to automate Todoist label ordering