Taskwarrior

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Taskwarrior

Taskwarrior 1.9.x demonstrating colored themes.
Original author(s)	Paul Beckingham
Developer(s)	Paul Beckingham, Federico Hernandez, David J Patrick, John Florian, Cory Donnelly, Johannes Schlatow
Initial release	June 3, 2008; 4 years ago (2008-06-03)
Stable release	2.2.0 / April 7, 2013 (2013-04-07)
Development status	Active
Written in	C++
Operating system	Cross-platform
Available in	English
Type	Task management, Time management
License	MIT License
Website	http://taskwarrior.org

Taskwarrior is an open-source, cross platform time and task management tool. It has a command-line interface rather than a graphical user interface.

Taskwarrior uses concepts and techniques described in Getting Things Done by David Allen, but is paradigm-agnostic in that it does not require users to adhere to any given life-management philosophy.^{[citation needed]}

According to its author, Taskwarrior was created "to address layout and feature issues"^[1] in the Todo.txt applications popularized by Gina Trapani.^[2]

Availability

Taskwarrior's source code is freely available and can be compiled and run on a variety of architectures and operating systems, or installed using binaries obtained with common package management tools: (apt, Fink, yum, etc.) ^[3]

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Typical Workflow

Taskwarrior comprises three main commands: add, list, and done. All other functionality – recurrences, tags, priorities, etc. – are optional.

Adding a task

$ task add Pick up keys to the new apartment
Created task 1.

Listing Tasks

$ task list

ID Project Pri Due Active Age    Description                      
 1                        4 secs Pick up keys to the new apartment

1 task

Marking a task as completed

$ task 1 done
Completed 1 'Pick up keys to the new apartment'.
Marked 1 task as done.

Creating a task with due dates, recurrences, and tags

$ task add Mow the lawn project:Lawnwork due:tomorrow recur:biweekly +home
Created task 1.

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Quotes

The Amazing Frankie^[4]

Amongst all these rapaciously expanding project management systems, there's this little thing called Taskwarrior. Just a package to install, and then it's you, the command line, and a tutorial. It's a good tutorial, plain English. You can follow it at four in the morning with sand in your eyes after the caffeine has worn off. And it's got these layers. You've got the basics within a few minutes, adding and deleting tasks, setting due dates. You know, the stuff you want one of those life organizing solutions to do. And then, it's got this glorious complexity: interdependent tasks, linked together like paper-clips; waiting tasks, invisible until it's their time, or you summon them; charts, reports, filters, and schedules.

ports at openbsd.org^[5]

It's kind of a TODO list on steroids.

pleia2's blog^[6]

So I’ve been busy, but a major helper through all of this is my new favorite task manager: Taskwarrior. It’s an amazing CLI-based program that I now can’t live without.

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Accolades

Issue 124 of the UK Linux Format magazine (November 2009) featured Taskwarrior in its Hot Picks section.^[7]
RadioTux Talk #137 (July 2011, German) chose Taskwarrior as Hot Pick^[8]
FLOSS Weekly dedicated episode 175 (July 2011) to Taskwarrior^[9]
Taskwarrior featured in Hacker News^[10]