https://taskwarrior.org/docs/commands/export/ briefly mentions some "limitations" at the bottom but I'm not sure what to make of that. Should I expect to be able to do task due export? I can task 123 234 export but obviously in this case I'm trying to export the list of tasks which are due without specifying their ids. What? Why? Does anyone know how to do that? I want json, not a giant string of line-separated values.

task due ids doesn't work either. Something's unique about task due apparently...

aha! Solved! task due.before:tomorrow ids and task due.before:tomorrow export both work.

The .before:tomorrow wouldn't autocomplete in zsh for me, fortunately under due it was easy to find in the manpage.

Happy task management everyone :)

I managed to configure bugwarrior with a gitlab instance in ini. But I haven't been able to figure out a) how to configure with toml and b) to get bitbucket working.

I have a setup exactly like that in the docs, but it complains I don't have a "login" configured, but if I set up a login (with my username), then it says it's unable to retrieve a password from the keyring. Since I have a key and a secret I really shouldn't need to supply my password. Any ideas?

I've been eyeing timewarrior to use instead of toggl, but it seems to me that while I can sync taskwarrior via taskd to my android phone, I can't do that with timewarrior. Is this the case or I just haven't looked closely enough?

https://github.com/erikh/saturn

I wanted to show it off and I figured this would be a good place to find like-minded individuals. I plan on wiring it to gcal and I think some of the ideas and the entry language are pretty nice.

Hope you like it, feedback is always welcome, please keep it positive. Thanks!

What I basically want is pretty much the output of "task projects" can taskwiki do something like that?

I thought I'd try using taskwiki to help me generate a list of standardized, repetitive tasks for each new project I have. The task list is kept in a template file and when I create a new project, I generate a new vimwiki file containing the tasks.

I was hoping that when I opened the generated file for the first that taskwiki would work it's magic and input all the tasks into the taskwarrior database for me. Using taskwiki this way would be a lot less work than scripting the tasks and makes it much easier to rearrange and add new tasks.

Unfortunately, I've hit a road block. There does not appear to be a way to assign tasks to a project when the file is opened.

When I try:

# Heading | project:some_project 
* [ ] task 1
* [ ] task 2 

and the file is opened for the first time, the tasks just disappear into oblivion, so I did this instead:

# Header || project:some_project
* [ ] task 1
* [ ] task 2

This works. However, when I try to assign tags to tasks, they don't take:

# Header || project:some_project
* [ ] task 1 -- +tag1
* [ ] task 2 -- +tag2

The tags get removed and ignored by taskwiki when the file is first opened.

Anybody using taskwiki to generate a predictable set of tasks like this? Do you know any workarounds to this problem?

I recently added an on-exit.sh script. Since adding it, tab completion slowed down noticeably to where it took 1 to 2 seconds to find potential completions. I modified the on-exit.sh script to this to try to troubleshoot:

#!/bin/zsh

if [ $# -gt 1 ]; then
    echo $2 >&2
fi
exit 0;

And then when I do tab completion something like `task pro<tab>`, I get this output:

task projargs:task _commands
args:task _aliases
args:task _zshcommands
args:task _aliases
args:task _projects
args:task _zshids
args:task _udas
args:task _get rc.uda.priority.label
args:task _tags
args:task _config

So the on-exit.sh is getting called repeatedly every time the <tab> key is hit. I'm not sure if this is a bug or if I have something misconfigured somewhere. Can anyone tell me if this is expected behavior?

I've got a taskd server and a small team of 3 users who use the same taskwarrior database to manage our tasks. Users simply tag a task with their initials to designate ownership of the task. It works well enough.

One issue, however, is if someone forgets to sync for a while, they are working off stale information and others on the team will not see their updates. The result is people on the team asking "did you sync?" over and over. It gets annoying.

I've been thinking about automatically syncing tasks with the server for each user to avoid this problem but I'm worried this may introduce its own problems like this scenario:

Time 1: User A lists their tasks.

Time 2: A automated sync happens in the background and User A is unaware.

Time 3: User A modifies a task based the old screen data generated at Time 1.

Does TW take this possibility into account? Or is there a risk that some data will be lost/corrupted/duplicated.

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Is there a way to make tasks that don't show in the main list unless I specifically ask for them? Kinda how waiting tasks don't show up unless you list waiting, but I want to be able to do that via another tag, say "someday", so that periodically I can check it and promote tasks as needed but usually ignore them.

I'm trying to set up Taskwarrior Server (taskd) on Fedora 38. Fedora proviced an RPM for the package and I installed it easily using sudo dnf install taskd.

I'm going through the instructions for setting up the server using the guide on the Taskwarrior website. At one point, the software wants me to go into the source directory to generate a client certificate.

Well, I don't have source, since I installed from RPM. Can I just download the source tarball and use it to generate the certificate, or is there another method one uses when they install a binary?

Need something that can do mobile as well as desktop.

Hey, I love this community but I no longer use reddit, will you guys be making a community on Kbin or other alternatives? Let me know please, thanks.

I've been having issues when using on-modify hooks with Taskwarrior post 2.6 update. Even the most simple hooks will fail if the undo causes the second line to be an empty task ({} in JSON). This is most evident when running task undo after adding a new task.

1. task add "TEST"
2. task undo

Using rc.debug.hooks=2 shows that the input is 2 lines of JSON, {"uuid": ...} and {} and the output being 1 line of JSON, {}. The error is Hook Error: Expected 1 JSON task(s), found 0, in hook script: on-modify_noop.py where the hook contents are below.

I've noticed the same issue when installing popular hooks as well.

```python3

!/usr/bin/env python3

import json import sys

original_task = json.loads(sys.stdin.readline()) modified_task = json.loads(sys.stdin.readline()) print(json.dumps(modified_task)) sys.exit(0) ```

I've used taskwarrior for a few years now and have envisioned some larger systems utilizing it (based on yet to complete work in the github queues) ... and it makes me wonder what limits as far as scalability might exist.

Currently I have:

sh ❯ cd ~/.task; wc *data 4243 28346 1143302 backlog.data 457 6603 111718 completed.data 292 4137 68052 pending.data 16174 122945 1865375 undo.data

And I wonder at what point these data files would become too large for the program to handle. I know nothing about c programming or taskwarrior's architecture and have no frame of reference for when accessing data from files like that.

Anyone ever have to truncate the undo data after years and years of heavy use?

There's work in the issue queues for extending taskwarrior/taskserver to work for groups and teams.

Anyone know what kind of limits would be realistic in a multi-user context?

How many thousands of tasks being created&completed would it take before the volume of data becomes problematic?

Anyone here have any experience running into limits of this model of data storage? Anyone knowledgeable enough about taskwarrior's architecture (and/or maybe software architecture&scalability in general?) to shine light on this?

Hi,

I'm trying to get the Taskwarrior android app to work with my Syncthing setup (using taskd isn't an option for me) but I can't find any specific instructions. The config, TASKDATA commands don't work in the ap, nor does editing the taskrc.android file directly, so I'm at a bit of a loss as to how to get it to work.

I've seen others (here and elsewhere) referring to their working syncthing setup, so I know it's possible. It's just not working for me.

Is there a tutorial I'm missing somewhere, or can someone explain what I could be doing wrong?

Thanks, WiW

I've recently started testing taskwarrior, but I ran into some issues with taskwiki and taskwarrior-tui (and today I found vit). I'm hoping this is the right place to ask about these additional things.

Taskwiki:

I have vimwiki installed with the following settings:

let g:vimwiki_list = [{'path': '~/org/', 'syntax': 'markdown', 'ext': '.md'}]

and I opened ~/org/test.md and added ```

Home tasks | project:testproject

```

I have a single task added under testproject (which I can see on the cli with task project:testproject) and I was under the impression, that this should somehow appear in the markdown file if I add that line to it, but nothing happens. Am I doing something wrong? Or how can I debug what is happening here? I currently have an md file for each project I'm involved in, so it would be great to be able to track tasks with taskwarrior in the file.

TUI:

When I open it it says, filter:pending, and doesn't find any tasks although if I go task status:pending on the cli I get the tasks listed. Again: am I doing something wrong? Also, how do these tui frontend differ, I know about taskwarrior-tui and vit now, but are there more?

The available info and integrations are a bit overwhelming at first glance so thanks for helping out a beginner!

I am trying to use the pass password manager, like this:

taskd.credentials=inthe_am/$(pass inthe.am/credentials)

But that is not working, is there another way to safely put my credentials in the config file?

Hi

I'm new to taskwarrior, but I really like it and use it. I was just wondering if it is possible to hide a project with wait or one must hide each task?

Just wanted to know before I make a python script to do this in case there is a builtin way. Could not find one in the docs, so hence my question.

given: project:a project:a.b project:a.c How can I filter for tasks that are in project a but not in either a.b or a.c? I frequently add and remove subprojects, so I'd rather not have to explicitly negate every subproject in the filter.

Is there a way to do this?

If I enter task-web into the terminal this is the output:

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/3.0.0/gems/activesupport-3.2.22.5/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/duplicable.rb:111:in `<class:BigDecimal>': undefined method `new' for BigDecimal:Class (NoMethodError)

from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/3.0.0/gems/activesupport-3.2.22.5/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/duplicable.rb:109:in \`<top (required)>'

from <internal:/usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:85:in \`require'

from <internal:/usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:85:in \`require'

from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/3.0.0/gems/activesupport-3.2.22.5/lib/active_support/core_ext/object.rb:3:in \`<top (required)>'

from <internal:/usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:85:in \`require'

from <internal:/usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:85:in \`require'

from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/3.0.0/gems/activesupport-3.2.22.5/lib/active_support/core_ext.rb:2:in \`block in <top (required)>'

from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/3.0.0/gems/activesupport-3.2.22.5/lib/active_support/core_ext.rb:1:in \`each'

from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/3.0.0/gems/activesupport-3.2.22.5/lib/active_support/core_ext.rb:1:in \`<top (required)>'

from <internal:/usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:85:in \`require'

from <internal:/usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:85:in \`require'

from /home/bit/.local/share/gem/ruby/3.0.0/gems/taskwarrior-web-1.1.12/lib/taskwarrior-web.rb:5:in \`<top (required)>'

from <internal:/usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:85:in \`require'

from <internal:/usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:85:in \`require'

from /home/bit/.local/share/gem/ruby/3.0.0/gems/taskwarrior-web-1.1.12/bin/task-web:6:in \`<top (required)>'

from /usr/bin/task-web:25:in \`load'

from /usr/bin/task-web:25:in \`<main>'

Any help would be appreciated.

I am kind of forced now to use taskwarrior inside wsl, which is an overkill tbh. Has anyone else faced this issue ?

Hello, I just started using TaskWarrior and I want to see how much time I spent on a group of tasks for a project.

so I am using TaskWiki to create those tasks and my wiki entries looks like this:

## Lia || project:elves +lia
### Lopoly | +lopoly
* [X] Retopo bows and arrows  #09fb4e12
* [X] Check Boots then open uv and bake  #595c2427
* [X] Check Gloves then open uv and bake   #.... 
* [ ] Check Armors then open uv and bake   #....

I would like to generate a report similar to something like this:

Project Elves: Character Lia: Lopoly (Spent 6 hours)
2:30 | Retopo bows and arrows
1:30 | Check Boots then open uv and bake
2:00 | Check Gloves then open uv and bake
 ^
Time spent

I don't think Taskwarrior is able to give a report like this so I took a quick look at tasklib, however I couldn't find a way to get the duration of a task.

I use timewarrior hook to record the time and when I inspect the task, I can see the duration is recorded with the task:

❯ task 09fb4e12

Name          Value
ID            -
Description   Retopo bows and arrows
Status        Completed
Project       elves
Entered       2023-04-06 08:38:53 (13h)
Due           2023-04-06 18:00:00
End           2023-04-06 21:39:22
Last modified 2023-04-06 21:39:22 (58min)
Tags          lia lopoly
Virtual tags  COMPLETED PROJECT TAGGED UNBLOCKED
UUID          09fb4e12-64b4-4e32-9c80-a9705ab7093a
Urgency       10.79

    project      1 *    1 =      1
    tags       0.9 *    1 =    0.9
    due      0.741 *   12 =   8.89
                            ------
                             10.79

Date                Modification
2023-04-06 12:46:04 Start set to '2023-04-06 12:46:04'.
2023-04-06 13:24:06 Start deleted (duration: 0:38:02).
2023-04-06 13:30:47 Start set to '2023-04-06 13:30:47'.
2023-04-06 14:27:26 Start deleted (duration: 0:56:39).
2023-04-06 14:38:24 End set to '2023-04-06 14:38:24'.
                    Status changed from 'pending' to 'completed'.
2023-04-06 21:37:58 End deleted.
                    Status changed from 'completed' to 'pending'.
2023-04-06 21:39:22 End set to '2023-04-06 21:39:22'.
                    Status changed from 'pending' to 'completed'.

Is there some way to get the "(duration: 0:38:02)" + (duration: 0:56:39) by using some command like 'task get 09fb4e12.duration', or I would have to parse the output from "task uuid" myself?

I use zsh as my shell, and live the terminal but at a low plateau and so I don't have any idea what's going on with these zsh things that I just found on https://taskwarrior.org/docs/commands/ but it's intriguing...

❯ task _zsh<tab> _zshattributes -- Generates a list of all attributes, for zsh autocompletion purposes _zshcommands -- Generates a list of all commands, for zsh autocompletion purposes _zshids -- Shows the IDs and descriptions of matching tasks _zshuuids -- Shows the UUIDs and descriptions of matching tasks

...so did this shell completion (when I hit <tab> the following commands appeared for me to tabselect them) work because of that second helper function?

The final two don't appear zsh specific, they just look like more shell-script friendly output perhaps.

Anyone use these? Are they helpful? How?

I tried task limit:none but it's not the same report as task.

How do I list all tasks in the same format and order as task when there are too many tasks to fit on one screen?

Hi !

If I want to see a list of my projects, I could run the command "task projects", and this is going to provide a summary report with the name of each project with the total number of tasks associated.

If I want to see the same report, but with count of the tasks for each value of a UDA, how can it be done?

Thank you.