There is an excellent tutorial available on youtube: Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-abs0s8uis Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuiSbMS0_5g
These are significantly easier to follow than the article. Thanks.
Taskwarrior is a time and task management tool (terminal)
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Re: Taskwarrior is a time and task management tool (terminal)
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Hm. I'd have to say "somewhat well versed". org-mode was actually the catalyst that made me switch to using emacs, and the learning curve is on the steeper side. The time to overcome the learning curve may not be worth it only for org-mode, but if you were interested in checking out emacs in its own right, org-mode is a darn good reason to! :-)
Re: Taskwarrior is a time and task management tool (terminal)
#33seems good. but one of the best features of a console app is to simply copy/paste some sample session... they only have one screenshot of the calendar... i installed it in ubuntu and am still fiddling with the website looking for how to add tasks. Also, as guy who sent some humble patches so that remind, pscal, can work with exchange file formats and pscal can download holidays from google calendar, I'm questioning i…
You want to add a task? task add "this is the task description"
i got that far with the help, but had a mind fart when trying to add a dead line... help just says:
task add [tags] [attrs] desc... Adds a new task.
anyway, my point was not asking for support. it was to remember people that create console apps, that the best feature the application have, is that you can do what the application is supposed to do (e.g. create one simple task, one complex one, show the calendar, mark one as done, show the calendar again) and simply copy and paste, not matter how long, on the first page of your project.
Re: Taskwarrior is a time and task management tool (terminal)
#34I had no idea what that thing was from reading the overview page. Reading some of the comments here I've got a better idea. Someone should let them know.
I had exactly the same reaction to the overview. Their introduction has a surprisingly of business-speak for a FOSS project: "Taskwarrior is an ambitious project bringing sophisticated capabilities to a simple and elegant productivity tool." It's a command-line todo list. Despite the confusing overview, it looks highly polished and to be under active development. I wonder how well the device syncing works.
We changed it picking up your advice, please have a look.