#!/usr/bin/osascript

--this line checks if Things is running when this script is launched 
tell application "System Events" to set alreadyrunning to exists (processes where name is "Things")

--this makes a line break between todos 
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {(ASCII character 10)}

tell application "Things"
	
	log completed now --don't want to see completed tasks 
	
	set todos to ""
	
	repeat with todo in to dos of list "Today"
		
		set todoDescription to (name of todo as text)
		
		set todoProject to project of todo
		if todoProject is not missing value then
			set todoDescription to name of todoProject & ": " & (name of todo as text)
		end if
		
		set todoTagNames to (tag names of todo)
		if todoTagNames is not "" then
			set todoDescription to todoDescription & " " & "(" & todoTagNames & ")"
		end if
		
        set todoDescription to "-" & todoDescription & "\n"
		set todos to todos & (todoDescription as text)
		
	end repeat
	
	return todos
	
end tell