Google Gemini, Claude, MCP support

[LukasWestholt]

Does anyone use AI to create new Tasks and push to CalDAV Server?

[patrickunterwegs]

Hi @LukasWestholt , what would be your idea to do that?
I probably won't do something like that for jtx Board. But I'm working on a new compose Multiplatform app that will make an Android, iOS, desktop and maybe web app with one codebase for journals, notes and tasks. There I have already experimented with AI integration. But for now it just extracts a summary and categories from a description.

[LukasWestholt]

My use case would be creating new tasks on the fly in Claude Chats (Web & Claude Code) using MCP-Server or Connector to remind me of certain things.

Fictional example: "I would like to sow carrots. When is the best time to do that?". "April. Would you like to create a task for that?". Something like that :)

[rogercreagh]

Please don't do that within jtxB.

[patrickunterwegs]

So just some thoughts, in any case, what I could imagine it's that the app can be called e.g. through a deeplink (or service). The link can then contain the data for a new entry. Eventually it wouldn't matter if that deeplink is called by an AI or any other app, that was more of my own thought behind it.

Is your concern a specific one or general against AI usage?

[rogercreagh]

There's a long term request for an ability to import entries (my interest is solely in Journal entries - but I can imagine there might be need to import notes and tasks as well). The feature request is probably so old it has fallen off the radar as most people I know who use jtxB (ie only me) have found workarounds, but it would still be very useful.

It needs to be agnostic as to where the data comes from and use a simple format - the obvious thing is to use CSV file format since you already have CSV export (experimental) and it is simple and the VCALENDAR data is essentially plain text.

If someone is using some automated system as the source of data then it is going to have to be presented in a standard format anyway, whether it is coming from an sql database or a random text generator. It should be quite simple to tell the source to generate it as a CSV with specific column headings.

Personally I have no use for Automated Information, but I don't care if other people use it - I'd just hate to see jtxB, which is really useful, tie itself to specific data sources apart from VCALENDAR. If there is a genuine need for automation in tasks then perhaps it is time to ditch the tasks stuff from jtxB and spawn a separate jtxT (jtx-Tasks) app which would deal with such things as compatibility and data exchange with the likes of Nextcloud tasks and automated information generators.

It seems that the majority of people making feature requests of all sorts are actually using the Tasks functionality rather than the original Journal function. For my point of view all the tasks stuff in jtxB is just bloatware - there are plenty of other tasks apps out there, but this is the best (and only) VJournal app.