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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 #125

I use taskwarrior daily at work primarily for its dependencies and recurring tasks. For example, when I pick up a case to work on, I'll immediately add it: task add project:team.kanban case-1234 Add the frob Then as I inspect and think about the parts that need to be done, I'll add a bunch more pieces as sub-projects: task add project:team.kanban.case-1234 Query backend for the data task add project:team.kanban.case-…

Nice workflow, thanks for the tip.

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

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I’ve used taskwarrior for 3-4 years exclusively, and can state that if you have a complaint about it, it’s highly likely that you haven’t considered the problem scope as deeply as its devs did. But then I stopped being a lone wolf dev and it simply doesn’t work for teams. Yet.

Even if you work in a team, surely you take on individual tasks based on what team has decided?

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

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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

I think a common misconception of planning is that you wish to avoid logging and the "hassle" it means. For me, logging what I have done is the only way to keep track of the project status and let my team members know what have been done.

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

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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?

$ task list pro:project_name

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

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post #151
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…

Wow, that was a great tip. I'm also finding myself splitting tasks into recurring steps like you mentioned, so automating this will save me lots of time.

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

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post #48
post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use Google Tasks for this and I love it. It's super simple and lightweight and I really hope they don't kill it.

I wish they would add more features. I would love a full featured free TODO app from Google.

What features do you need?

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

#209
post #29

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.

Overmanagement separation anxiety? ;-)

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

#210
post #77

http://mgsd.tiddlyspot.com/demo3.html TiddlyWiki powered GTD system

mGSD is based on TiddlyWiki Classic, here is GSD5, a new project, built on the current version, TiddlyWiki 5: http://gsd5.tiddlyspot.com/

I find tw5 a step backwards in terms of usability. Not a fan of design aesthetics which decrease information density.
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