Daily Task Management & Daily Digest System

Bottle is a micro-framework for Python:

$ sudo easy_install bottle

Requests is an HTTP library for Python:

$ sudo easy_install requests

Pytz brings the Olson tz database to Python:

$ sudo easy_install pytz

Pymongo is the MongoDB driver for Python:

$ sudo easy_install pymongo

MongoDB is the database for Doneit:

$ sudo apt-get install mongodb

Postfix is the email server used by Doneit:

$ sudo apt-get install postfix

To get the source, run the following:

$ cd /
$ sudo git clone git://github.com/di/doneit.git

We now have a directory at /doneit where the application resides.

To build the database, from the /doneit/ directory, run:

$ mongorestore

To dump the database (to commit to git), run:

$ mongodump

The daemon allows the web service to run indefinitely. To start it, in the application directory, run:

$ sudo ./website.py start

To restart:

$ sudo ./website.py restart

To stop:

$ sudo ./website.py stop

To process incoming mail, we need to set an alias for the user (here, doneit) that pipes the email to the stdin of a file instead of to mail.

In /etc/aliases, add the line

doneit: "|/usr/bin/doneit_incoming"

Then, we need to symlink the incoming.py file to this location:

$ sudo ln -s /doneit/incoming.py /usr/bin/doneit_incoming

And then update Postfix's aliases:

$ sudo postalias /etc/aliases

The waker process is initiated by a cronjob periodically.

To edit the root crontab:

$ sudo crontab -e

Then setup the cron with the following line:

0 * * * * /doneit/waker.py 2>&1

This triggers the waker every hour on the hour. The 2>&1 is used to suppress emails from the cron.

Logs are logged at /var/log/doneit.log