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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 jecxjo »

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 use to break all of my work up into smallest tasks possible. Was doing pomodoro, with two large projects, hardware and software, development and management, multiple feature and bug releases. So tons and tons of tasks! At one point I had it automated so when I was doing a bug fix I'd create a set of dependency connected tasks (Understand Bug, Create Fix, Create Unit Test, Code Review, Documentation, Push Update). I could easily have a hundred tasks in the queue at any given time.

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

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Post by rndstr »

whack wrote: post #147

I wonder why no one has mentioned using Google-Calendar as a task-management tool. I too use (starred) emails to remind myself of tasks that I have pending. But for anything that's time specific, I just put it on my google-calendar (or any online calendar really). Eg: Mow my lawn on Sunday? Ok, I'll create an all-day event on Sunday to mow-my-lawn. And once I'm done, all I have to do is delete it. I can then periodic…

There are also reminders that string along as long as you don't check them off.

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

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Post by foo42 »

Wish I'd seen this a few weeks back before building my own command line app, it seems I've taken an almost identical approach to them in everything I've implemented, though obviously they're much farther along! Still, part of the motivation for building my own was to trick myself into getting the habit of checking the list every day since I'd be keen to dogfood it - that's worked out pretty well so I can't complain!

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

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Post by pweissbrod »

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.

Vim orgmode user here. Combining checklists with outlines with a bunch of org files in a git repo has worked well for me over the last year or so. But you know that's just for personal tracking purposes

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

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Post by Splines »

rhcom2 wrote: post #6

I use Google Keep with pretty good success. Having one list for "To-Do Now" (daily stuff) and one for "To-Do Later" (longer term goals). The key for me is syncing across devices. If I can't add the to-do quickly when I think of it then the system wouldn't work for me.

I've recently been having problems with Keep losing data that I've typed in (common scenario - paste in a paragraph of text from my spouse that has a list, I line break the list to get checkboxes, then portions of that list disappear when Keep tries syncing). This seems like a pri-0 feature but Keep has become unreliable recently.

Otherwise it's great but the fact that it loses data means I've shelved it for now.

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

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Post by Grumbledour »

ISL wrote: post #127
toastking wrote: post #126

This seems really cool but I can't imagine using a task manager that doesn't also have a mobile app.

Taskwarrior has a mobile client: https://taskwarrior.org/news/news.20160225.html

The play store link seems dead, though?

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

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Post by darrenf »

softawre wrote: post #130
tjr225 wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find a physical notepad and a pen to be perfect for prioritizing and recording to-dos. Not sure why it needs to be "optimized" any further.

A physical notepad is pretty easy to forget or lose.

Is it? I mean, I guess perhaps so - but I find a physical artifact far easier to remember than "must open app X/Y/Z" on all my devices. Like my glasses or wallet or keys or phone, it has a literal presence. In 12 years of carrying a notepad and pen around, all over the world, I've literally never forgotten it once.

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

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Post by fenwick67 »

foo42 wrote: post #153

Wish I'd seen this a few weeks back before building my own command line app, it seems I've taken an almost identical approach to them in everything I've implemented, though obviously they're much farther along! Still, part of the motivation for building my own was to trick myself into getting the habit of checking the list every day since I'd be keen to dogfood it - that's worked out pretty well so I can't complain!

Me too, I just wrote a quick CLI app for logging my work on Monday

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

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Post by atrexler »

I'm currently using Asana for task management. I guess the only upside is that I can share tasks with my wife, but its clearly not really meant for just single person management.

Has anyone tried both taskwarrior and asana? Any obvious pros/cons?

taskwarrior seems much simpler and can live locally if you dont want locked in asana/whatever?

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