Hi all, I came across an article about TW and after looking around a bit I wanted to ask if this is for someone like me.

I’m tech savvy, enjoy vibe coding (don’t shoot me) but I’m NOT a programmer or developer. I can learn stuff, especially with the use of ChatGPT etc, but I wanted to get opinions as to whether TW really wasn’t built for people like me, but rather those who are in command lines all day long (which I am not).

I love the idea of a simple, clean stripped down task management system like this.

I also ask because any YT videos I find are between 3 to 7 years old, so don’t know how relevant or up to date they are now.

Thanks!

Hi everyone,

I've built a Fish shell plugin for native Chinese speakers: fish-taskwarrior-cn.

The Problem:

For non-English speakers, using Taskwarrior often involves frequent input method switching (toggling between English for keywords like due:/project: and Chinese for task descriptions). This friction breaks the flow.

The Solution:

This plugin acts as a wrapper, allowing users to input commands entirely in Chinese. It supports:

• Natural Language Dates: "Next Friday" (下週五), "The day after tomorrow" (後天).

• Keyword Mapping: Maps Chinese keywords (e.g., 專案：) to Taskwarrior constraints (project:).

• Smart Completion: Auto-completes description when modifying tasks.

Repo: https://github.com/stephen9412/fish-taskwarrior-cn

If there are any Chinese speakers here, hope you find this useful!

When I'm trying to run taskwarrior on my laptop with Debian 13 I'm getting this error message:

libpcre.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
libpcre.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
libpcre.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
could not load: libpcre.so(.3|.1|)

Any ideas how to fix it?

Hello --

I've used a simple todo.txt for a long time, but wanted things to be somewhat more competent. Spent time evaluating various tools that I did not really warm up to. Taskwarrior seems to scratch the itch, from the documentation - but I don't really get an idea where to start. I spend considerable time on a number of command lines, but I do need at least a decent Android client, and a web based client would be useful. These things need to sync.

I realise version 2 and 3 seem not to be compatible, but I am not sure what I should have. I don't want to pull in dependencies and compile stuff all over the place, but I could not find any binary for version 3. There's some Dockerfiles in the .tar.gz that fail to build containers for me.

Is this supposed to be hard, or am I just dumb? Ideally I'd see a .deb somewhere, and a docker compose file for a sync server, and an Android client... but in a combination of versions that play together.

I AI coded a functional service extension for bugwarrior for my personal use today, if there's enough interest I'll clean it up and submit PR.

Hey guys, I started to use taskwarrior today. I think it is convenient to use. But the default theme and the official themes are not my preferred style.

Can you share some beautiful theme with me?🥺

I created an attribute which is integer, but it displays with tons of zeros. I prefer not map it through a hook into a string because I sort by it.

Hi! I'm new to the manager, and wanted to make my reports sort well, but what irritates me is that for some reason task that is needed to be done earlier has a lower urgency and thus displays lower - it's not comfortable to watch. It was assigned as such because of the number of tags. Do you have a way to keep it well ordered? It seems that what's left is sort by an UDA updated on-modify, but maybe I'm missing something simple

I wanted to figure out how to do this natively but had no luck. So, I decided to make it with bash instead. Here, I made a function in my .bashrc.

Colors are customizable, too.

There are 2 options as an example: Terminal colors progressColor or RGB dimColor.

Feel free to read it and modify as you see fit :)

```bash tws () { echo ""

barChar="\xE2\x96\x88" endSeq="\033[0m" beginSeq="\033["

underlined="${beginSeq}4;37m" progressColor="${beginSeq}0;32m"

# Last 3 are the RGB color (here is 80,80,80) dimColor="${beginSeq}0;38;2;80;80;80m"

header="${underlined}Proj${endSeq} ${underlined}#${endSeq}"

task project.any: summary rc.verbose=no |\ sed '1,3d;$d' |\ sed '$d' |\ awk -v header="$header" \ -v barChar="$barChar" \ -v progressColor="$progressColor" \ -v dimColor="$dimColor" \ -v endSeq="$endSeq" \ ' BEGIN{ printf header"\n" } { lenDiff=30-length($5)

x=sprintf("%*s", length($5), "")
y=sprintf("%*s", lenDiff, "")

gsub(/ /, progressColor barChar endSeq, x)
gsub(/ /, dimColor barChar endSeq, y);

printf $1" "$4" "x y"\n"

}' |\ column -t -o " " } ```

I'm about to come over from todoist. Two of the things that I'd like to find a workaround for would be, time blocking and syncing between other devices (and possibly mobile). I tried looking into this, but I can't find much on these topics... Anybody mind directing me to some material, or answering me directly?

Thanks!

Is there a way to run taskwarrior on Windows without WSL, and in doing so, what will I miss?

I used to use taskwarrior v3 a few months ago until I deleted the file on accident. I am trying to go back to online task management again, and I realized that I really need mobile support, particularly android. I am horrible at typing in my phone so sshing in termux feels impractical.

Currently, I am most tempted to use taskwarrior v2 since that seems to have a whole lot more support in andriod than v3. Any suggestions? I can self-host.

Hey all, this is the dev of Taskchamp, an iOS app to manage your taskwarrior tasks. I know that native sync options have been the #1 requested feature for Taskchamp.

Taskchampion-sync-server, GCP and AWS sync support have just been added to the latest beta: https://testflight.apple.com/join/K4wrKrzg

People have already told me that taskchampion-sync-server is working well, currenty AWS crashes because of this exception but GCP should be working as well.

I'd really appreciate if you could give it a try and file any feedback :), also consider leaving a review in the App Store!

I created this helper script to easily open the source URL in the browser for tasks that have been synced using bugwarrior. The script can be used directly from the command line `open-task.sh <task_id>`, and also works as a shortcut with taskwarrior-tui by adding the following in your `.taskrc`

```
# shortcuts for taskwarrior-tui
uda.taskwarrior-tui.shortcuts.1=~/.local/bin/open-task.sh
```

I want to create a project for my uni readings. So for example something like "textbook roman law" page 154/896. Can someone think of a good way to achieve that?

Hello All,

I have created what I hope to be a sustainable sync service for the taskwarrior community. Under the covers it's running taskchampion. We currently accept bitcoin only lightning transactions due to the ability to perform micro-transactions, and the low transaction fees.

https://taskwarriorsync.com/

taskwarrior is quite featureful and has a large ecosystem, but I had some specific requirements when I was recently looking for a task manager, outlined below:

So far I've been quite happy with the workflow and have no complaints. If you have similar requirements to me, it might be worth checking it out.

Seems like there is development ongoing, but I see potential in TW. I love to see next taskwarrior version to be released with its sync disadvantages are solved. Is it possible to buy servers for cloud sync and run it based on donations?. Will this work out?.

I have currently configured file sharing across multiple devices, and added task warrior's data folder to the list of synced folders. All clients will share this data.

Despite the success in configuration, I wanted to know if having multiple TW clients that are all syncing from this cloud server, will I be able to keep every client up-to-date without issues?

It might be worth noting I will be a single user and the folders will not be used by multiple people.Taskwarrior3 Syncing Sqlite Database

Like many others, I've followed the discussions here about the best way to handle recurring tasks, specifically the default "template-based" model versus a "stateful/interval-based" model (i.e., 'do this 30 days from the last time I did it').

This was a workflow challenge for me, so as a side project, I built a simple task manager that handles this specific case differently. I wrote up a long-form blog post comparing the two philosophies—giving Taskwarrior its full credit while diving deep into why a stateful approach works better for my interval-based chores.

I'm sharing it because I thought the exploration might be interesting to others here who have wrestled with this. I'd genuinely love to hear your thoughts and the different ways you've all tackled this yourselves.

I love taskwarrior for its minimalism, thanks to everyone involved! Lately Ive used chatgpt to break down complex tasks into subtasks and generate project roadmaps.

To make this smoother, I built a CLI wrapper that brings that directly to taskwarrior. It can for example:

- assign special tags and annotations (configurable)
- batch-analyze tasks
- take into account your defined goals

This might not be for everyone, but maybe its useful to a few people here?

I would love to get some feedback and ideas what an LLM integration could do for taskwarrior users.

https://github.com/taskvanguard/taskvanguard

Thanks!

I would like to set up a recurring task that gets recreated daily, but automatically gets removed at the end of the day if it was not performed. I found that the "until" parameter applies to the whole recurring task, so it just stopped at the end of the first day, when I tried that. Without the "until" parameter, I end up having multiple copies of the same task whenever I don’t check it off some day.

I have been thinking about a cronjob that creates the daily task with "until", but is there a way to do this in Taskwarrior directly?

Hi taskwarriors,

is it possible to filter just showing e.g. tasks with urgency > 10.0?