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Taskwarrior is a time and task management tool (terminal)

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Re: Taskwarrior is a time and task management tool (terminal)

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anyone knows if there is a way to sync this with the cloud so it can be used between computers?

The actual task information is stored in your home directory. I use it on a Linode and stay connected all day (cloud enough for me :) ) I've seen other people use it with Dropbox, which would fulfill the syncing requirement.

There's a guy on the forums that developed a RoR frontend for it too: https://github.com/theunraveler/taskwarrior-web

Re: Taskwarrior is a time and task management tool (terminal)

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Has anyone used both Taskwarrior and org-mode? Any words of wisdom?

Hi, I've been an user of both. I wrote about Taskwarrior here: http://www.mostlymaths.net/2011/03/using-taskwarrior-instead...

I am using it more often than org-mode, mainly because it works very well in my Ben Nanonote, and org mode does not work as well.

It is very good, but org-mode is more flexible (as everything in emacs is) and covers a wider range. Tw is more like the "do one thing and do it well" Linux command line style tools.

Re: Taskwarrior is a time and task management tool (terminal)

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post #5

Looking for a minimal time-sheet management software at work, I found taskwarrior. I was looking for something reasonable to use (not one of those "web 2.0" interfaces where you have to click on five different links to just stop/start a task). Taskwarrior seems very handy especially when you are all day long in your terminal and don't want to interfere with your work for doing some "reporting". But there is a missing…

www.toggl.com

Toggl looks cool but it is a separate time tracking app. Think there is a real desire for an app that does both the todo management and time tracking in one.

Edit: seems that Taskwarrior does do time tracking after all. See my other comment for more on this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2597117

Re: Taskwarrior is a time and task management tool (terminal)

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post #5

Looking for a minimal time-sheet management software at work, I found taskwarrior. I was looking for something reasonable to use (not one of those "web 2.0" interfaces where you have to click on five different links to just stop/start a task). Taskwarrior seems very handy especially when you are all day long in your terminal and don't want to interfere with your work for doing some "reporting". But there is a missing…

You could try 'task X start' and 'task X stop', this is what we use to see how long things take. but yes, no reporting...

Nice one, for more on this see the Active Tasks section in the tutorial: http://taskwarrior.org/projects/taskwarrior/wiki/Tutorial

Re: Taskwarrior is a time and task management tool (terminal)

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post #5

Looking for a minimal time-sheet management software at work, I found taskwarrior. I was looking for something reasonable to use (not one of those "web 2.0" interfaces where you have to click on five different links to just stop/start a task). Taskwarrior seems very handy especially when you are all day long in your terminal and don't want to interfere with your work for doing some "reporting". But there is a missing…

I feel as if I have tried near every to-do, GTD, or similar type app on the desktop and web and there is one feature that is always, without fail, missing and one that usually is. The first is the ability to allot to a task how long it should take (E.g. Buy milk - 15m, Create wireframe for client x - 30m). The only place I have ever seen it, as far as I can recall, is Action Method. The second is the one you mentione…

Not to be "that guy", but have you tried org-mode? It has an "effort estimate"[1] feature, which lets you estimate how long you think a task will take. It's also got good time clocking features, so you can compare how close you were. I don't use it to estimate my effort, so not sure how effective or useful it is in practice.

[1] http://orgmode.org/manual/Effort-estimates.html

Re: Taskwarrior is a time and task management tool (terminal)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel as if I have tried near every to-do, GTD, or similar type app on the desktop and web and there is one feature that is always, without fail, missing and one that usually is. The first is the ability to allot to a task how long it should take (E.g. Buy milk - 15m, Create wireframe for client x - 30m). The only place I have ever seen it, as far as I can recall, is Action Method. The second is the one you mentione…

Not to be "that guy", but have you tried org-mode? It has an "effort estimate"[1] feature, which lets you estimate how long you think a task will take. It's also got good time clocking features, so you can compare how close you were. I don't use it to estimate my effort, so not sure how effective or useful it is in practice. [1] http://orgmode.org/manual/Effort-estimates.html

I've actually never heard of org-mode before. :) In order to use it, how well versed does one need to be in Emacs?

Re: Taskwarrior is a time and task management tool (terminal)

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I've been using Taskwarrior for a few weeks as my primary task manager, and I have to say it's a beautiful extension of the principles of Todo.[txt/sh]. The only thing missing for me is the ability to apply modifications to filters instead of needing to use explicit task ID lists. For example:

  task proj:Foo due:tomorrow
Instead of:

  task 1,2,3,7,10-12 due:tomorrow.
For oh-my-zsh users, I've got an open pull request for adding a Taskwarrior autocompletion plugin:

https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/pull/370

The intelligent completion lowers the barrier to task entry even further.

You may also want to try using a combination of Taskwarrior's shell mode and rlwrap, which has become my main usage method:

  `alias ts=rlwrap -i -r -C task task shell`
Combine this with a drop-down terminal like Guake or tilda, and you've got text-based-tasklist-anywhere nirvana.
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