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Kiwi Chatbot - User Guide

Kiwi is a personal chatbot assistant designed to help you manage tasks such as todos, deadlines, and events. You can interact with Kiwi using both Command Line Interface (CLI) and a Graphical User Interface (GUI). Kiwi makes it easy to add, edit, delete, and search tasks to stay organized!

Table of Contents

• Quick Start
• Features
  • Adding a Task
    • Adding a Todo
    • Adding a Deadline
    • Adding an Event
  • Viewing Tasks
  • Marking Tasks as Done
  • Unmarking Tasks
  • Deleting Tasks
  • Finding Tasks
  • Editing Tasks
  • Saving
  • Exiting

Quick Start

1. Ensure you have Java 17 installed on your computer.
2. Download the latest release of kiwi.jar from GitHub.
3. Open a terminal and navigate to the folder containing kiwi.jar.
4. Run the application using the following command: java -jar kiwi.jar
5. Kiwi will greet you, and you can start entering your tasks.

Features

Adding a Task

Adding a Todo

Adds a new todo task to the list.

• Format: todo DESCRIPTION
• Example: todo Borrow book

Adding a Deadline

Adds a new task with a deadline.

• Format: deadline DESCRIPTION /by YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM
• Example: deadline Submit assignment /by 2025-02-28

Adding an Event

Adds a new event task with a start and end time.

• Format: event DESCRIPTION /from START_TIME /to END_TIME
• Example: event Project meeting /from 2025-03-01 10:00 /to 2025-03-01 12:00

Viewing Tasks

Displays a list of all your tasks.

• Format: list

Marking Tasks as Done

Marks a task as completed.

• Format: mark INDEX
• Example: mark 1

Unmarking Tasks

Marks a task as incompleted.

• Format: unmark INDEX
• Example: unmark 2

Deleting Tasks

Deletes a task from your list.

• Format: delete INDEX
• Example: delete 3

Finding Tasks

Find tasks by searching for a keyword.

• Format: find KEYWORD
• Example: find book

Editing Tasks

Edits an existing task based on its index.

• Format: edit INDEX [/desc NEW_DESCRIPTION] [/by NEW_DEADLINE] [/from NEW_START] [/to NEW_END]
• Example: edit 2 /desc Complete project proposal

Saving

Kiwi automatically saves your tasks to disk after every change.

Exiting

Displays the goodbye message and quits the program after 3 seconds.

• Format: bye