Are there screenshots?
Taskwarrior
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#32I use Taskwarrior daily, but have a love-hate relationship with it after running into sharp edges and quirks several times. Hopefully this doesn't come across as too harsh as Taskwarrior is good as a command line utility for tracking one-off personal tasks -- maybe the best and I recommend it for that limited case -- but it has some warts that anyone newly looking into it should be aware of: The recurrence system is…
Oh, yeah that issue with the date related urgency calculation. I couldn't figure that out, too. I even started skimming through the code, but gave up since I couldn't find it within 10 minutes.
I really love using taskwarrior, but certain things like that just drive me nuts.
If anyone can explain, how that date related urgencies are calculated, I would be very thankful!
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#33I so wanted to love it. I even build small automation tools around it. What destroyed it for me was the overly complicated taskserver, which then only communicated in it's own protocol (so I could sync tasks between different unixes, and apps following that exact format), but not in the much more widespread CalDAV format (which would have made it useful beyond the hobbyist scene).
Yes, I know, I could have developed it myself. But ultimately, that was too nontrivial to just throw it together, and I finally gave up.
I'm with JIRA now. It does what it needs to do reasonably well, without causing too much headaches.
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#34I switched from Todoist to Taskwarrior a while ago and it's been great.
One thing I wish it had is a way to mark tasks as "Undone" instead of having to delete them. It's great for reporting and finding weak points in my schedule.
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#35Taskwarrior on desktop / Termux+Taskwarrior on android keeps my life sane. At this point it is an almost perfect piece of software that needs just maintenance but no extra features.
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#36Are there screenshots?
Can't you see them? It's a CLI app.
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#37Someone created a web-based taskwarrior proof of concept that used VIM keybindings and it was absolutely the most perfect implementation I've ever touched, and then it disappeared before I could pull it down. Does anyone know anything about this?
Are you talking about taskwiki[0]? [0]: https://github.com/tools-life/taskwiki
No, it was a web-based prototype in the browser. It was so nice because the key bindings worked exactly as you'd expect when it came to adding new tasks, setting hierarchy etc, no fiddling.
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#38I really wish TW finally got around to implementing the ideas to improve recurrences here: https://taskwarrior.org/docs/design/recurrence.html Basic things like "do a thing on the first Monday of every month" just aren't possible, and other kinds of recurring tasks (e.g. do something weekly) work strangely. These limitations rule it out for a lot of my day to day use cases, which is a shame because otherwise there's…
This might not work for you, but I've found that "recurring" tasks and the never-ending stream of "one-off" tasks are best managed in separate applications.
I use a kanban-style thing for managing one-off's, which I use to "fill-in" my free time, and a calendar/reminder-style thing that I use to schedule recurring events. It's possible to set up syncing between the two, but I haven't found it necessary.
At first, I tried to put recurring things in the kanban-style app. They would fester and quickly/irreparably get out sync with reality. I also tried putting one-off things in the calendar/reminder-style things, but managing a backlog in such an application is usually a nightmare.
I've experimented with TW in the past. I really enjoyed the productivity aspect. Ultimately, I discovered that portability (i.e. a web interface) was more important than efficiency, and crawled back to the kanban-style thing.
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#40Switching over to Taskwarrior has been on my TODO list for a while now. (Yes, fully aware of the irony.) I currently use Tracks and one of the things that holds me back is I still like a good GUI interface to help visualise. I occasionally take a look at various offerings but find those I've surveyed a bit mediocre.
Wow. Tracks. This threw me back about 15 years. Good to see it’s still maintained.