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Re: Taskwarrior – CLI Task Management

#51
Is there a way to sync this to my phone?

Integrations are what I am looking for in a tool like this.

Orgmode etc. work well while I am glued to my computer, but once I take the hands of my keyboard I need a deep cellphone integration.

Unfortunately I could not finde a sensible solution to sync between Linux and iOS so far.

Re: Taskwarrior – CLI Task Management

#52
post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For now, my scope is local usage. As I am working as a freelancer, having free time to work on personal project becomes a luxury :-( Yes, remote usage is an issue for task warrior. As I work from home, remote access is not yet a priority to me. Come to think of it, as the UI can be accessed in LAN, maybe I can use local storage to store the data on mobile, sync with the desktop when it can connect back. I will keep i…

Hey, no worries, been there, done that. It is your personal project — don't ever let anyone (including me) pressure you into doing any work you would not do yourself. If this was my project and I was tasked with adding mobile support I'd add: - a simple (optional) authentification scheme that let's you deploy the whole thing server side/log in remotely - a alternative mobile interface that works well on smartphones w…

Ideas and feedbacks are always appreciated, they almost always teaches you something new

Re: Taskwarrior – CLI Task Management

#53

Is there a way to sync this to my phone? Integrations are what I am looking for in a tool like this. Orgmode etc. work well while I am glued to my computer, but once I take the hands of my keyboard I need a deep cellphone integration. Unfortunately I could not finde a sensible solution to sync between Linux and iOS so far.

Todoist seems to have many CLIs available.

Re: Taskwarrior – CLI Task Management

#54

Is there a way to sync this to my phone? Integrations are what I am looking for in a tool like this. Orgmode etc. work well while I am glued to my computer, but once I take the hands of my keyboard I need a deep cellphone integration. Unfortunately I could not finde a sensible solution to sync between Linux and iOS so far.

Foreground app works for Android + Task Sync server. I'm not using iOS so I don't now.

Re: Taskwarrior – CLI Task Management

#55
post #46

Don't get me wrong, this is probably great software, but there is a big field of tasks like reminder apps, calendar, note taking apps etc. for which I just use a plain free form text editor. I don't quite see what these tools offer, other than pretty user interfaces. And after taking the time to learn the new tools, there will still be cases when I won't have access to them, while plain text works everywhere

Same here. I've been using "todo.txt" for years (decade?) now. It's hardly more than a very loosely defined format to present TODOs. Lot's of tools, apps, GUIs and whatnot developed around it. The format is so easy that anything that can edit txt allows to manage it without hassle, so even if MyFavoriteTool is abandoned in a year, I can continue with my todo system. And synching a text file is a no-brainer too. I now…

I think i read some where (or maybe i heard it on a podcast?) about a user of todo.txt who maintained a separate todo.txt like shared-todos.txt or something which basically was a file which was shared with others to track , well, shared tasks. I think they also incorporated a shared calendar, but can't recall if the calendar and the shared text file were connected manually or automatically (through some bash script). I don't recall any more of the details. But, i guess it is possible, and at least one person does employ this tactic. My assumption there is that any sharing of such a text file would necesitate that all collaborators are text file-centric users too.

This approach is not something that would work for my family...but, maybe i have a friend or 2 (at most!) who could collaborate this way (that is, sharing a text file of ToDos). But, i wonder how annoying it would be to track such a separete file for this? Hmmm. I think at some point the need for multi-person collaboration might break down with only a single text file...and since things likely need to get at least a little more sophisticated, might necesitate more tooling. I guess.

Re: Taskwarrior – CLI Task Management

#57

Don't get me wrong, this is probably great software, but there is a big field of tasks like reminder apps, calendar, note taking apps etc. for which I just use a plain free form text editor. I don't quite see what these tools offer, other than pretty user interfaces. And after taking the time to learn the new tools, there will still be cases when I won't have access to them, while plain text works everywhere

The only benefit this could provide is time warrior integration.

Re: Taskwarrior – CLI Task Management

#58
I've used Taskwarrior (and Timewarrior [1]) for some time and one thing they uniquely do is automatically rank your tasks by a number of factors.

For your tasks, you can set priorities, a deadline, dependencies, and more. Using this information, Taskwarrior computes an urgency score so you can see your most urgent task using:

  task next
Sometimes I wonder what a GUI-based app would look like that does such urgency rankings.

[1]: https://timewarrior.net/

Re: Taskwarrior – CLI Task Management

#59

Don't get me wrong, this is probably great software, but there is a big field of tasks like reminder apps, calendar, note taking apps etc. for which I just use a plain free form text editor. I don't quite see what these tools offer, other than pretty user interfaces. And after taking the time to learn the new tools, there will still be cases when I won't have access to them, while plain text works everywhere

For me personally, timed reminder is a must have. Being able to give some task a date and then forget about it until its due and gives me proactive reminder. As far as I know, no text-based system is capable of that.

Re: Taskwarrior – CLI Task Management

#60
post #25

Bad form to recommend something else... But I had some of the same issues that people have described about synchronizing across multiple devices with notifications and all that jazz, and ended up landing on Amazing Marvin ( https://amazingmarvin.com/ ). It is the single, closest thing I've found to the same paradigm of Task Warrior's prioritization systems, and incredibly customizable, which is lovely to see as a web…

Do you know if this is still being actively developed? I looked at it a few months ago and was worried it looked like it was being abandoned.

What made you think that? The changelog lists recent changes: https://community.amazingmarvin.com/changelog
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