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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 ISL »

Grumbledour wrote: post #156
ISL wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

The play store link seems dead, though?

Hm. The taskwarrior app I use daily is gone from the Play Store.

The author now offers something called TaskwarriorC2 that may have similar functionality, with a different UI spirit.

Edit: I just installed TaskwarriorC2 and got it working (by hand-copying my hard-won profile configuration from original taskwarrior (pem files, taskrc, etc., the whole profile directory)) from kjv.task/files/ over to the com.taskwc2/files/ directory on the phone. Editing the taskrc file is currently broken for me, so if I hadn't already had one, configuration would have been daunting.

Now that TaskwarriorC2 is working: If you're a taskwarrior poweruser, the interface is awesome. If you'd never used taskwarrior before, it would seem inscrutable.

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

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Post by tjr225 »

JohnKacz wrote: post #124
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.

Agreed. I thought it would not be the case but I’ve been bullet journaling for about 6 months and it’s been revolutionary.

It's a habit I picked up very early on when I was doing IT internships in college and it's so effective I can't see myself ever making checklists any other way.

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

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Post by ClassyJacket »

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.

What makes Google Keep useless to me is that there is no 'sort by most recently edited' option, same as Google Drive and really everything google makes. I have to manually bring each note to the top every time I edit it, which kills the functionality.

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

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

sammorrowdrums wrote: post #145
city41 wrote: post #138

Google essentially implemented FollowUpThen and Taskwarrior in Inbox via snoozing and reminders. I can honestly say Inbox has significantly changed my life. I have to use email every day already, so overlaying task management has been a huge boon. I have a recurring reminder every Sunday night to take out the trash. I set up reminders to go off in 1 year (like when I sign up for something and don't want it to auto re…

I was searching the comments for someone saying this. Snooze / archive to achieve inbox zero is life changing. I have one simple rule. If I can't do something right now, I snooze it until I think I will be able to deal with it. The knowledge that it will not be forgotten is very cathartic and my inbox doesn't fill with emails I intend to deal with but haven't yet. I think what people forget is that time is often a be…

> I've tried to evangelize and I can't understand why it hasn't resonated as much with others.

Perhaps it's a trust thing? It only works if you're 100% sure that a snoozed email will come back every time and no later than you told it to. Is it reasonable to trust Inbox to do that? Probably, but people have to be convinced of that. And note that for some of us, trusting the magical AI-enhanced black box that Google tends to build is a little on the hard side.

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

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

eadmund wrote: post #122
ealhad wrote: post #55

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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.

> does anyone use Org mode without Emacs? Well, I use Orgzly on my phone, but I use emacs on my desktop & laptops. Orgzly is okay, but not great — and it has some weird bugs. It's definitely not a complete port of Org mode, or even a port of most of Org mode. For what it is, though, it's better than nothing — and better than the current alternatives. I really wish that there were a good touch-aware port of emacs on A…

It isn't ... really... touch-aware, but shout out to termux for running normal/full emacs on Android if you're into that. (It will input touches, I think as mouse events, it's just not what you probably meant by touch-aware)

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

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Post by wingtask »

spott wrote: post #39

I run into this every once in a while, but the sticking point is always the mobile picture. If I want to add a todo item using my phone, what are my options? Anyone have any experience with this?

I'm launching a new mobile client for taskwarrior: https://wingtask.com

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

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Post by tra3 »

zwischenzug wrote: post #148

I wrote a post on this some time back: https://zwischenzugs.com/2017/12/03/how-i-manage-my-time/ if there's one takeaway, it's that you have to find your own way of getting what's in your head into a place you can trust, and there's no objectively right place for that. Just keep looking until you're comfortable with one and stick to it.

> you have to find your own way of getting what's in your head into a place you can trust

That's definitely #1. I'm surprised I had to scroll so far down to find it. :)

For a long time I was looking for a system that would auto-prioritize tasks for me. I'd dump things in, and it would tell me what I had to do today, this week and this month. Long story short, it turned out to be a silly expectation.

So #2 rule should be, review your tasks periodically.

Basically, an 80/20 productivity system should be:

#1 write everything down #2 review and cull your list every day #3 do things off your list

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

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Post by wingtask »

ISL wrote: post #161
Grumbledour wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The play store link seems dead, though?

Hm. The taskwarrior app I use daily is gone from the Play Store. The author now offers something called TaskwarriorC2 that may have similar functionality, with a different UI spirit. Edit: I just installed TaskwarriorC2 and got it working (by hand-copying my hard-won profile configuration from original taskwarrior (pem files, taskrc, etc., the whole profile directory)) from kjv.task/files/ over to the com.taskwc2/fil…

I was never happy with the Taskwarrior client you linked so I'm launching a mobile client alternative for taskwarrior: https://wingtask.com
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