Personal Task Manager (Lite)

A small JavaFX desktop application for managing a personal to-do list. Tasks are created with a title and due date, tracked as pending or completed, and persisted to disk between runs.

Features

• Create tasks with a title and a due date (via a date picker), with basic validation that rejects empty titles or missing dates.
• Due-date sorting — the list is kept ordered by due date as tasks are added.
• Pending / completed tracking — mark a selected task as complete; completed tasks are shown in green italic with a check mark, pending tasks in plain text.
• Filter the view — toggle between Show All and Show Completed.
• Delete tasks from the list.
• Automatic persistence — tasks are saved to a plain-text file (alvi.txt) in the working directory on every change and reloaded on startup. The format is a human-readable pipe-separated line per task: title|yyyy-MM-dd|completed.

Tech stack

• Java 17
• JavaFX 21.0.3 (javafx-controls, javafx-fxml) — UI defined in FXML (main_view.fxml) with a CSS stylesheet (style.css)
• Maven — build and dependency management (javafx-maven-plugin)

Prerequisites

• JDK 17 or newer
• Maven 3.6+ (no Maven wrapper is bundled; use a system mvn)

Build and run

From the project root:

# Compile
mvn compile

# Run the application
mvn javafx:run

To produce a packaged jar:

mvn package

The main class is com.alvi.MainApp.

Project origin

This project began as a university Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) coursework assignment and has since been cleaned up and maintained as a standalone repository.