Tasky

Tasky is a simple task manager. It was originally written to be run on the IBM Cloud, but this version has all of the IBM Cloud code removed.

Getting Started

First, be sure that Python 3 is installed. If not, be sure and install it now.

Next, make a virtual environment for Python 3 (macOS/Linux/UNIX):

python3 -m venv venv

On Windows 10:

python -m venv venv

Invoke the virtual environment (macOS/Linux/UNIX):

source venv/bin/activate

On Windows 10:

venv\Scripts\activate.bat

Then install the packages needed to run Tasky:

python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Copy the dotenv-default file to .env and change the SECRET_KEY variable to something unique for your Tasky app.

Finally, run the local Tasky server:

python manage.py run

Other Things ...

Other Databases

By default, Tasky uses the SQLite3 database. Using another database is pretty easy. Do the following steps:

1. Install the SQLAlchemy version of your database driver.
2. In the .env file, change the environment variable DATABASE_URL to the new connection URL.

Flask Shell

You can play around with the database by running the Flask shell:

flask shell

For this to work, the .env file must be in place OR you can set the environmental variables before running the command.

The app, db, and login variables are already setup as are the TaskyUser and TaskyTask classes. This saves a bit of work when working with the Python interpreter.

Google reCAPTCHA v2

Tasky supports using a reCHAPCHA on the signup page. Follow these steps to set it up:

1. Sign up for the Google reCAPTCHA v2.
2. Copy the contents of the dotenv-recaptcha file and paste them into the .env file.
3. Change the RECAPTCHA_PUBLIC_KEY variable to your public key.
4. Change the RECAPTCHA_PRIVATE_KEY variable to your private key.
5. If you want to use SSL, change the RECAPTCHA_USE_SSL variable to True.