Demo animations in README about todoman HOT 16 OPEN

Something like the video at http://beets.io/

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Maybe this issue is without progress for 7 years because the bar is too high. Maybe it doesn't need a well-scripted movie. Even a few screenshots may help for a start. Just my two cents.

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+1 It makes a big difference, see, for example, pipenv.

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So here's on I made today quickly:

Honestly, I'll completely open to criticism and a new script for it, etc. I'm not very creative with making up actions.

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https://asciinema.org/a/5gc9baoqtx6wkgi1ytv90ncrs and https://asciinema.org/a/db3xuhufirhq0g4b22jwmmjeg

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Uh oh, the latter actually revealed a bug in todoman. -dtomorrow counts from UTC time

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Yeah, I also uncovered another bug (when not passing any summary) when doing this demo.

We need to figure out how to test the urwid bit.

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Turns out the default due date got set after setting the user-defined due date 💩 Fixed in master

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Here's another screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/7ifwbqub2f9e3ntgzk0iszf8g

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Back on-topic:

• asciinema records your terminal size, so something more convervative (25*80) looks better. Especially if it goes into the README. I use i3wm, and just make the terminal window float for it to take its default size.
• I like showing off the config and find, but I'd move that to the end, and start off showing the app itself first.
• I mostly liked this one: https://asciinema.org/a/5gc9baoqtx6wkgi1ytv90ncrs
• I'd prefer "real-looking" todos. Rather than "hello world", make up something that sounds like an actual task.

Also of importance: I don't see how to download a video/gif from asciinema.

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I think we can edit the JSON recording just for resizing the terminal, but I'm not sure.

I suppose we have to record this in some other way because of the GIF though. A real video with sound would be nice

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Sound?

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The voiceover is actually quite helpful, and showing the config makes for sense with it.

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ttyrec and ttygif produce really good results. 👍

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Script idea:

• Start of with two tasks, with and without due dates, and lists with colors.
• todo new SOMETHING
• todo new -l work SOMETHING
• todo
• todo edit 3, edit due date
• todo
• todo done 2
• cat config
• tree paths
• cat ics file

More details:

• Make sure we use the latest version of todoman (unlike my previous recording).
• 80x25 terminal.
• Tasks are better if they sound real ("purchase ticket", "organize party", etc).
• I prefer date_format = %Y-%m-%d %H:%M for the demo.

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