🙏 Please - New Tab Page for your Terminal 🙏

Get a beautifully formatted minimalistic new tab page with a greeting, date and time, inspirational quotes, your personal tasks and to-do list everytime you open the terminal with Please CLI.

Version 0.3.1 is out now!

Upgrade with pip3 install please-cli --upgrade

📖 Table of Contents

• 🚀 Installation
  • 1️⃣ Method 1
  • 2️⃣ Method 2
• 🚑 Troubleshooting
• 👨‍💻 Commands
• 🧰 Additional Optional Configuration
• 🚮 Uninstalling
• ❤ Credits

🚀 Installation

Method 1:

1. Make sure you have Python 3 installed on your computer.

2. Open your terminal and paste the command below:

   pip install please-cli
   
   # If you get an error about 'pip not found', just replace pip with pip3.
   

3. To run please everytime you open the terminal:

   # FOR BASH
   echo 'please' >> ~/.bashrc
   
   # FOR ZSH
   echo 'please' >> ~/.zshrc
   
   # FOR FISH
   set fish_greeting please
   

   Or if you prefer to run please once a day:

   # FOR BASH
   echo 'please daily' >> ~/.bashrc
   
   # FOR ZSH
   echo 'please daily' >> ~/.zshrc
   
   # FOR FISH
   set fish_greeting please daily
   

4. That’s it! Check if please command works in your terminal.

Method 2:

1. Go to the releases section.

2. Download the latest release WHL file.

3. Open terminal and paste the command below:

   pip install --user ~/Downloads/please_cli*
   
   # If you get an error about 'pip not found', just replace pip with pip3.
   

   Change the path of the file if you downloaded it elsewhere.

4. To run please everytime you open the terminal:

   # FOR BASH
   echo 'please' >> ~/.bashrc
   
   # FOR ZSH
   echo 'please' >> ~/.zshrc
   
   # FOR FISH
   set fish_greeting please
   

5. That’s it! Check if please command works in your terminal.

Having trouble with installation or have any ideas? Please create an issue ticket 😃

🚑 Troubleshooting

Getting a command not found: please error? That means the Python modules installation folder is not in PATH.
To fix this:

echo 'export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin"' >> ~/.bashrc

and restart the terminal.

👨‍💻 Commands

Some of these commands may not be in the latest release.

# Show time, quotes and tasks
please

# Add a task
please add "TASK NAME"

# Delete a task
please delete <TASK NUMBER>

# Mark task as done
please do <TASK NUMBER>

# Edit task name
please edit <TASK NUMBER> <NEW NAME>

# Mark task as undone
please undo <TASK NUMBER>

# Show tasks even if all tasks are marked as done
please showtasks

# Move task to specified position
please move <OLD NUMBER> <NEW NUMBER>

# Toggle Time between 24 hours and 12 hours format
please changetimeformat

# Change your name
please callme "NAME"

# Delete all done tasks
please clean

# Reset all settings and tasks
please setup

🧰 Additional Optional Configuration

Remove Greeting in please’s output

1.Navigate to ~/.config/please
2. Open config.json
3. Change "diable_greeting": false to "diable_greeting": true (All lowercase).

Remove Horizontal Line in please’s output

1.Navigate to ~/.config/please
2. Open config.json
3. Change "diable_line": false to "diable_line": true (All lowercase).

Remove Quotes in please’s output

1.Navigate to ~/.config/please
2. Open config.json
3. Change "diable_quotes": false to "diable_quotes": true (All lowercase).

💻 Local Development

1. To get started, first install poetry:

curl -sSL https://install.python-poetry.org | python3 -

2. Clone this project
3. cd to the project directory and run virtual environment:

poetry shell

# OR THIS, IF 'poetry shell' doesn't work

. "$(dirname $(poetry run which python))/activate"

4. Install all dependencies:

poetry install

• please will be available to use as a command in the virtual environment after using poetry install.

5. Finally, run the python script with:

python please/please.py

6. To build a WHL package:

poetry build

• The package will be generated in dist folder, you can then use pip to install the WHL file.

7. For Nayam: Publish the package with:

poetry publish -u <username> -p <password>

🚮 Uninstalling

Open your terminal and type:

pip uninstall please-cli

and also edit your .zshrc or .bashrc file and remove the line that says please at the end of the file.

♥ Credits

• Thanks to @CodePleaseRun & @guedesfelipe for their contributions.
• Thanks to @lukePeavey for the quotes.json file taken from quotable.io

Made by TGS963 and NayamAmarshe with ⌨ and 🖱