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Taskwarrior, where have you been all my life?

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

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Post by tonyarkles »

jecxjo wrote: post #68
tonyarkles wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How did your work life lose all of its complexity? I long for a single todo.txt, but have settled on a directory of org-mode files :)

At one point I was the sole engineer on two very large hardware/software projects. Projects that often didn't have dedicated marketing, sales, tech support, internal/external training. So I was wearing a LOT of hats, and I needed a way of figuring out how to be one of the most productive people in the company (for my own reasons) while also only doing the bare minimum of work. Then one day the company decided they wo…

> That is when I decided to change jobs.

I was really hoping that was going to be the conclusion, for your sake :). That sounds like an incredibly demoralizing experience.

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

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Post by tunesmith »

ibnishak wrote: post #25

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

orgmode is better in a lot of different ways, but taswarrior is better with dependencies since it has a graph-based data structure, while orgmode is strictly hierarchical. orgmode has tags, but neither it nor org-depend nor edna quite approach the ease of graph-based dependencies. Org-brain comes closer but is a little clunky.

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

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Post by sp332 »

If you just want to schedule emails without involving too many third parties, you can do this in the Outlook mobile app by swiping right on any email. For the desktop app, right-click an email and use the "Follow Up" menu.

You can also do it in Google's Inbox app, but you have to swipe left instead. The Inbox website lets you schedule emails by hovering over an email and clicking the clock icon.

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

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Post by dwightgunning »

flavor8 wrote: post #71

Since nobody has mentioned it, ToodleDo is a good tool with a slightly dated UI and a terrible name. It has mobile apps, 2FA, projects / subtasks / scheduling / optional alarms, and a variety of other related features. There's a free restricted version, also a paid version, which is reassuring.

I'm a long time user and have paid the ~$20/year, subscription for >5yrs. It's been rock solid the whole time.

I find it's got the right out of GTD without being too bloated and/or cumbersome to use.

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

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Post by toyg »

lawn wrote: post #73

While technically awesome I've tried using it several times but always end up dropping it. I find it difficult to maintain and over time it's left to rot until I finally give up on it. For me I don't actually need the complexity. A simple text based todo list would basically do the same job. The main issue is actually maintaining it. This is why I like habitica more: https://habitica.com/ It's basically a gamified to…

I used habitica for about a year and loved it. However, at some point my character was maxed-out and there was no incentive to continue (quest-events were a bit lame). I tried starting from scratch with a new character and quickly got bored. Maybe I should try it again, if they have improved it.

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

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Post by TeMPOraL »

ealhad wrote: post #55
ibnishak wrote: post #25

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

I guess Org mode is better for someone who is already an Emacs user; and does anyone use Org mode without Emacs? Taskwarrior is probably a fine piece of software though.

I agree. Org mode will be more efficient and definitely much more feature-rich if you already keep Emacs open all the time, and especially if you bother configuring it properly.

Taskwarrior looks like it can work better "out of the box" and definitely more useful for someone who isn't Emacs-proficient.

Org-mode, for better or worse, is flexible enough to support lots of different kinds of workflow. It's cool if you know what you want to do, and the defaults will be enough for simple GTD workflow, but if you aren't sure how to properly organize yourself, you'll find yourself searching a lot for ideas from other people.

My current org-mode config looks like this: https://github.com/TeMPOraL/conffiles/blob/master/emacs26/.e....

You can think there's lots of stuff in it, but frankly, this is mostly on the lower end :). Most of the code is for tweaking tasks, clocking and agenda views to better fit my workflow. It's by no means finished - living in org-mode is very much about slowly discovering your ideal workflow and molding Emacs around it :).

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

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Post by Bartweiss »

lawn wrote: post #73

While technically awesome I've tried using it several times but always end up dropping it. I find it difficult to maintain and over time it's left to rot until I finally give up on it. For me I don't actually need the complexity. A simple text based todo list would basically do the same job. The main issue is actually maintaining it. This is why I like habitica more: https://habitica.com/ It's basically a gamified to…

Habitica is an interesting suggestion, thanks.

I've had good luck with "todo list" and the "X effect" thing (basically just streaks - X out a calendar day for each time you do a daily task". Everything else, without exception, has been enough work to feel like a secondary task which I then quit doing. This might be a tool light enough to digitize those benefits without being a burden.

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

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Post by matte_black »

codemac wrote: post #82
matte_black wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don’t know about you but on iPhone Safari it’s terrible. No momentum scrolling makes it exhausting to scroll through, and there’s a broken horizontal scroll.

That's the iPhone's rendering of their blocks. If you look at the HTML source, there is so little going on I can't see how it wouldn't be your mobile browser's fault.

That makes it even worse. There’s very little going on and it still manages to be a fuckup. Look at all the others who are also getting stuck in this UX tar pit.

How on earth does this happen on what should be a straight forward site?

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