things-3-report/REFACTOR.md

Refactor Goals

1. Speed things up. Relying on things.py (and python in general) makes the code slow. Add in the fact that the nix-shell logic tends to run every day and pulls down the universe, the current day reporter is quite slow
2. Clean up the code. Using a better language will help some, but in particular using a bonafide templating library should improve the code.
3. Stability. Using osascript with the Things AppleScript API will avoid future problems that things.py is constantly running into because they are overly coupled to the Things sqlite database schema.

Ideas

• Move to rust using osascript to drive interactions with things
• Write a small library of scripts in JS that rely on the OSA infrastructure to call out to things, and package up content into JSON for ease of use in rust.

Resources

I found a really great gists for working with osascript and it even has Things examples: https://gist.github.com/tommorris/99bcbbcf445bb6475797