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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 recursive »

matte_black wrote: post #100
codemac wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

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

It happened because the site developer didn't work around all the bugs in safari mobile.

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

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Post by ISL »

wingtask wrote: post #170
ISL wrote: post #161

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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

Awesome. Make it so!

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

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Post by flukus »

vinceguidry wrote: post #101
tjr225 wrote: post #88

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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.

You have to carry it around if you want your task list to be anywhere but in just one spot.

I know we have this desire for a single task list but in practice I don't find it that useful. My task list at work would get in the way when I go to the shops. My task list at home is only needed there, I need to be reminded to pay bills when I'm at home and not when I'm at work. Even between different projects at work and home different task lists can be good.

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

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Post by jdtang13 »

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 hate this app. It's extremely unresponsive, doesn't know how to dismiss notifications properly, and is laggy on mobile. Some pages that are accessible from the web view don't work at all on the iOS version. And I'm 99% sure that the damage-calculation hits aren't being calculated properly.

Yes, I know it's open source. I still dislike these aforementioned aspects of it, though.

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

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Post by davidcamel »

I got really excited about Taskwarrior and set up a server and accounts for all of my teammates. But we quickly found that we were spending more time logging our tasks than we were actually consulting TW for what to do next.

Example:

task add project: support_customer_migration priority: H -- support#XYZ - analyze dependencies for customer X - github.com/repo/issue/number

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

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Post by daveyarwood »

ISL wrote: post #49

I use taskwarrior, and it makes my life better. Two things I wish I could configure it to do (stating here in case someone already knows how): 1) A view that surfaces only the next task for each project, with a little annotation like: Write chapter 1 (First Novel) Make grocery list (Juliet's Party) Collate transactions (Month-end reconciliation) Without that culled list, a comprehensive task-list is overwhelming. 2)…

Re #1, my strategy is to make `task ready` my "home base" of sorts. `task ready` shows you only tasks that aren't blocked or scheduled for the future. In other words, tasks that are ready to be done ASAP.

My daily flow is to try and clear my plate, i.e. reach "Inbox Zero" with my `task ready` view. Every task in that view needs to either be completed or rescheduled for a time that I think I have a chance at completing it.

As for projects with tasks that block other tasks (e.g. write chapter 1 is "next," and it is the blocker for anything else, like writing chapter 2), you can tell Taskwarrior to hide them from your `task ready` view by using the `depends` property. For example, if "write chapter 1" is task 42, then I might add a task like `task add 'write chapter 2' depends:42`. Until I mark task 42 (writing chapter 1) as done, "write chapter 2" won't show up in my `task ready` view and I'm free not to think about it.

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

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Post by veidr »

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…

Yeah; basically any calendar app. Every OS/device comes with one built in; they can sync across all your devices; they expose the database via SDK or API so you or others can augment them with additional tools (though I don't find it necessary).

For me, this has been a solved problem for many years.

It's one of those things where everybody's different, I get that.

But using an email system to manage your tasks seems only one step less goofy than calling yourself and leaving yourself voice mails. You can make that work, I guess, but that's not what the tool is for.

I think modern calendars are one of the great software success stories, actually. They are rock solid reliable, based mainly on hackable open standards, and work everywhere. I don't delete things from my calendar, I just leave them in there as a fossil record of my life.

(What was I doing ten years ago on this day? I just checked; apparently I helped my girlfriend sell her car, bought my sister a plane ticket, and worked on software for most of the day.)

This data has moved with me from platform to platform and will be accessible my whole life. This is how computers are supposed to work! (But seldom do...)

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

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Post by chrisamiller »

jdtang13 wrote: post #174
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 hate this app. It's extremely unresponsive, doesn't know how to dismiss notifications properly, and is laggy on mobile. Some pages that are accessible from the web view don't work at all on the iOS version. And I'm 99% sure that the damage-calculation hits aren't being calculated properly. Yes, I know it's open source. I still dislike these aforementioned aspects of it, though.

Yeah the desktop web version is a massively better experience (though not stellar either, tbh). It says something that it's still a good tool despite those shortcomings

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

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Post by eitally »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #165
sammorrowdrums wrote: post #145

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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 te…

I don't think it's that at all. Truly. I think it's a trust thing of the opposite sort: people don't trust themselves to comfortably (and actively) forget non-critical tasks, which is what the OP does with this method. I think lots of folks keep things in their inbox because of two reasons: 1) removing them feels like loss, and increases risk of ultimate forget, and 2) you can't effectively set a reminder for something you haven't actually read and understood, and most people don't even read the majority of the mail they receive.
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