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Re: Taskwarrior, where have you been all my life?

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Post by SEJeff » Wed, May 09, 2018, 3:40 PM UTC

natex wrote: post #14

Does anyone use Taskwarrior with more than just a few tasks? I have about 15 projects going at once and flip between them numerous times during the day. The projects might have several sub-projects and multiple next actions. Are Projects/Subtasks implemented well?

Taskwarrior has the concept of a user defined attribute (UDA) which you can setup all kinds of fanciness for projects / filtering with. I use one called "prio" aka priority and generally set it to H|M|L. These allow you to customize taskwarrior to an insane degree. In fact, they actually rejected a contribution from me to add priority support natively when it could be done with a UDA:

https://taskwarrior.org/docs/udas.html

Really powerful software.

Re: Taskwarrior, where have you been all my life?

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Post by craftyguy » Wed, May 09, 2018, 3:41 PM UTC

0xdeadbeefbabe wrote: post #15

Why is a todo list a good idea?

It helps some folks stay organized and manage their time effectively.

Re: Taskwarrior, where have you been all my life?

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Post by fsiefken » Wed, May 09, 2018, 3:41 PM UTC

Taskwarrior is very nice, but I found org-mode combined with the mobile client orgzly even nicer. Export to ical, sync to server and you have it in your watch or mobile calendar as well.

Re: Taskwarrior, where have you been all my life?

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Post by awavering » Wed, May 09, 2018, 3:43 PM UTC

0xdeadbeefbabe wrote: post #15

Why is a todo list a good idea?

At the most basic, it makes sure you don't forget things you have to do. There are secondary benefits like prioritizing and identifying blockers which help you work more efficiently.

Re: Taskwarrior, where have you been all my life?

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Post by ibnishak » Wed, May 09, 2018, 3:44 PM UTC

Is there anyone who used org mode and taskwarrior to get a compare and contrast?

Re: Taskwarrior, where have you been all my life?

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Post by taborj » Wed, May 09, 2018, 3:45 PM UTC

natex wrote: post #14

Does anyone use Taskwarrior with more than just a few tasks? I have about 15 projects going at once and flip between them numerous times during the day. The projects might have several sub-projects and multiple next actions. Are Projects/Subtasks implemented well?

I do. You can define the 'project', and then use that field in a variety of ways. I use the format 'Customer.Project', as I oftentimes have many projects with each customer. Using this method, I can sort by 'Customer' to get all projects for that customer, or I can get more granular and sort by 'Customer.Project'.

It's extremely versatile, and can be customized to suit your usage. I love it.

Re: Taskwarrior, where have you been all my life?

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Post by marpstar » Wed, May 09, 2018, 3:46 PM UTC

reacharavindh wrote: post #8

I tried this as well. I'm yearning for a tool that lets me drag & drop an email, and it automatically creates a task based on the content. I can obviously go and edit it after setting deadline or assign to project etc. I was hoping to create this workflow with MS Outlook(on Mac) and its inbuilt Tasks, but apparently they don't support it :-( I would pay for such a feature.

I use the email-to-board feature of Trello and just include the address as a BCC when replying to clients, or just forward it if I'm not replying. Everything goes into the "Incoming" column which I can then prioritize. Works great for me.

Re: Taskwarrior, where have you been all my life?

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Post by marpstar » Wed, May 09, 2018, 3:46 PM UTC

0xdeadbeefbabe wrote: post #15

Why is a todo list a good idea?

For me, it's peace-of-mind. If I write it down, I don't have to keep it in memory.

Re: Taskwarrior, where have you been all my life?

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Post by jecxjo » Wed, May 09, 2018, 3:49 PM UTC

I use to use Taskwarrior, using all its features until one day my work life lost all complexity. At that point I felt like all the key features of Taskwarrior were lost because I just didn't have enough complication to track.

Now I just use todo.txt and that seems to cover everything I need.

Re: Taskwarrior, where have you been all my life?

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Post by 0xdeadbeefbabe » Wed, May 09, 2018, 3:50 PM UTC

marpstar wrote: post #28

0xdeadbeefbabe wrote: post #15

Why is a todo list a good idea?

For me, it's peace-of-mind. If I write it down, I don't have to keep it in memory.

Yes I can see that happening, but do you also get stressed out by a long list of things to do? This maybe leads to avoiding the todos and then you are worse off for making a list in the first place?