📘 Smart Task Orchestrator

An AI-powered personal task and notes manager built with .NET 9 Web API, designed for developers who want to stay organized with minimal effort. This backend service captures tasks, summarizes content using AI, and helps categorize and prioritize intelligently.

A personal productivity engine for engineers — blending structured tasks with organic dev notes, powered by AI insight.

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🧠 Why This Project Exists

As a backend engineer, it's easy to drown in ideas, bugs, and feature requests. This orchestrator gives you a private, extensible API to:

• Collect thoughts, todos, dev logs, and plans from anywhere (e.g., Postman, terminal, future Slack bot)
• Summarize or tag long entries with AI
• Search/filter through your work like a pro

It also serves as a practical playground to learn and demonstrate:

• .NET 9 Web API development
• AI integration (OpenAI / HuggingFace)
• Clean architecture and scaling practices
• Product thinking and SDLC application

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🔧 Project Roadmap (SDLC Inspired)

🔍 Phase 1: Requirements & Planning

• ✅ Define MVP scope (CRUD for tasks & dev notes, AI summarization)
• ✅ Select tech stack (.NET 9, EF Core, SQLite/Postgres, Swagger)
• ⬜ Set up logging and diagnostics
• ⬜ Add unit tests and basic CI

🧱 Phase 2: MVP Development

• ✅ Basic API routes: POST /tasks, GET /tasks, GET /tasks/{id}
• ✅ Models for tasks and dev notes
• ⬜ AI Service to summarize/label notes
• ⬜ Background job for AI processing
• ⬜ Optional frontend (React/Next.js)

🚀 Phase 3: Iteration & Scaling

• ⬜ User Auth (JWT or OAuth2)
• ⬜ Export/Import tasks & notes
• ⬜ Webhooks / Slack / GitHub integration
• ⬜ Multi-user support (multi-tenancy)
• ⬜ Dockerize and deploy

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🛠 Tech Stack

Layer	Tech
Backend API	.NET 9 Web API
ORM / DB	Entity Framework Core + SQLite (start)
AI Integration	HuggingFace Inference API (free)
API Testing	Swagger UI / Postman
Logging / Jobs	Serilog / Hangfire (future)
Version Control	Git + GitHub

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📦 Installation & Setup

Prerequisites

• .NET 9 SDK: Download
• VS Code (recommended)
• Git CLI

Running Locally

# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/smart-task-orchestrator.git
cd smart-task-orchestrator

# Restore dependencies and run migrations
dotnet restore
dotnet ef database update

# Run the project
dotnet run

📬 API Endpoints (MVP)

Method	Endpoint	Description
POST	/tasks	Create a new task
GET	/tasks	Get all tasks
GET	/tasks/{id}	Get a task by ID
POST	/devnotes	Create a dev note
GET	/devnotes	List all dev notes
GET	/devnotes/{id}	Get a dev note by ID

🔮 Future Enhancements

• Task & DevNote prioritization with AI
• Tag extraction & trend insights
• Email/Voice note ingestion
• Calendar sync (Google/Outlook)
• Slack bot to log tasks & notes
• Browser extension / Git hook integrations

🤖 AI Integration (Planned)

• HuggingFace summarization model (free tier)
• Optional: OpenAI GPT for tag extraction / prioritization
• AI endpoints exposed as /ai/notes/enhance and /ai/tasks/suggest

🧠 Learning Outcomes

• Master .NET 9 Web API structure
• Build scalable backend systems from scratch
• Integrate AI into developer workflows
• Apply SDLC thinking to a real-world dev tool

✍️ Author

David. Experienced Backend Engineer, building with .NET to stay organized, level up, and share tools that scratch real itches.

"Great software starts as a scratch for your own itch. Then you give it legs."