🦀 A simple and powerful CLI To-Do List App built with Rust!

A simple and powerful CLI To-Do List App built with Rust!

🌟 Manage your tasks efficiently with rust-todo!
Stay organized with task prioritization, due dates, status filtering, and persistent storage — all in a sleek command-line interface.

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📌 Features

✔️ Add tasks with priority & due dates
✔️ List tasks (with filtering for done/pending)
✔️ Mark tasks as done
✔️ Remove tasks
✔️ Persistent storage (saves tasks in JSON)
✔️ Color-coded UI for better readability

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🎯 What I Learned

Building rust-todo taught me:
✅ How to create a command-line application in Rust
✅ How to use Structs & Enums effectively
✅ How to handle file I/O and store data persistently
✅ How to work with external crates like serde, clap, chrono, and colored
✅ How to format and display terminal output beautifully

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🛠 Installation

1️⃣ Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/rust-todo.git
cd rust-todo

2️⃣ Install Rust (if not already installed)

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

3️⃣ Build the project

cargo build

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🚀 Usage

➕ Add a task

cargo run -- add "Complete Rust project" high "2025-03-25"

📌 If no due date is provided, today's date is used.

cargo run -- add "Read a book" medium

📋 List all tasks

cargo run -- list

Filter by status:

cargo run -- list --status done
cargo run -- list --status pending

✅ Mark a task as done

cargo run -- done 1

❌ Remove a task

cargo run -- remove 1

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⚙️ Technologies Used

🦀 Rust – Core programming language
📦 serde – JSON Serialization
📝 clap – Command-line Argument Parser
📅 chrono – Date & Time Handling
🎨 colored – Beautiful Terminal Output

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🚀 Future Enhancements

🔹 Add edit task functionality
🔹 Implement recurring tasks
🔹 Store tasks in SQLite/PostgreSQL for database integration

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✨ Built with ❤️ and Rust! 🦀