#!/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
    if not alreadyrunning then quit --if ran by me then quit

    set the_output to ""

    repeat with ar in areas
        set the_output to the_output & name in ar & return
        set current_area to name in ar

        -- This is the part where I want to get items from this area that are only in "Today" (or just uncompleted ones)
        repeat with aTodo in to dos of area current_area
            set the_output to the_output & "  - " & name in aTodo & return
        end repeat
    end repeat

    return the_output

end tell