wunderlist-report

Congratulates you every evening by email for all the Wunderlist tasks that you checked during the day.

What it does

After deploying and setting up this script to your favorite server (e.g. a Heroku instance), the run.js script is meant to be run daily, and will:

1. Find out all the tasks you checked today, from you Wunderlist account;
2. Send you an email containing this list of tasks.

I wrote this script to measure my day-to-day productivity, and also to motivate myself to keep checking many tasks every day.

Setup

1. Clone this repository locally, then npm install;
2. Create a Wunderlist developer account;
3. Create a Wunderlist app => fill your app's client ID and client Secret in the run.sh file;
4. Generate an access token by clicking the corresponding button, near your Wunderlist app => also fill it in the run.sh file;
5. Create a Sendgrid account => fill the API key the run.sh file, when provided;
6. Then, fill the EMAIL_FROM and EMAIL_TO fields of run.sh;
7. Finally, run run.sh --dry-run to make sure that everything works => you should see a line EMAIL => followed by a JSON object that lists the tasks that you checked today.
8. When the test works, run run.sh (without the --dry-run argument) => you should receive an email within 5 minutes, given your Sendgrid account was provisionned.
9. Now you can push all that to your favorite web server or hosting service, and configure it so that run.sh is run every day, at the time of your choice. If, like me, you decide to use Heroku, you can use the Scheduler addon. Otherwise, a cron script should work.

Required environment variables

• WUNDERLIST_CLIENT_ID: 20-char-long hexadecimal string, provided by Wunderlist developer console after creating an app
• WUNDERLIST_CLIENT_SECRET: 60-char-long hexadecimal string, provided by Wunderlist developer console after creating an app
• WUNDERLIST_USER_TOKEN: 60-char-long hexadecimal string, provided by clicking on "Create access token", from your Wunderlist developer console (or after using auth.js)
• SENDGRID_API_KEY: API key provided by Sendgrid after creating your account
• EMAIL_FROM: Email address from which daily emails will be sent
• EMAIL_TO: Email address of the recipient (i.e. you, I guess)