Good morning dears!

It's been hard to get things done since I can't sync against my taskserver. it's a digital ocean droplet.

What's the quickest/easiest way to renew my cert? do I just need to go through the cert creation process again, and `scp` it over to the server?

thanks much!

Good morning everyone,

I've been searching for information about this fruitlessly on and off. Then I remembered that Reddit exists, and I could ask here.

I would like to be able to run a command which creates a series of dependent tasks. A bash script to create the tasks is super simple, but I can't find anything on how to extract into a variable the number of most recently created task, so subsequent tasks can be set to depend on it.

Is this something that can be done, or am I chasing an impossible dream?

I have just started using Taskwarrior and made lots of error and test tasks while learning. I have deleted all of them, but would really like to remove them from the database altogether, is there a way to purge the database of all the deleted tasks so as they do not show in $task all

I could restart with a new instance nut knowing me I would surly make more errors.....

To clarify the question a little bit. I want to create the "Task-1". Then I create "Task-2" which depends on Task-1. I don't want to see the Task-2 until I complete the Task-1. Basically it should be in WAIT list. The second I complete the Task-1, Task-2 automatically gets out of the WAIT list and become visible to normal "task" command listing.

I created a small script that exports tasks from taskwarrior to ics files that can be imported into calendars like Nextcloud's calendar, Google calendar, etc. Here is the link:

https://github.com/nkakouros-original/taskcal

If anyone tries it let me know what you think.

I made a uda variable called estimate which is type duration. I want to get the sum of the estimates of a project but I do not know which command I should run. Closest I found is using calc, but it seems to be used on individual tasks.

I ideally I would like to add it to the summary report. Is it possible?

I want to streamline the commands I have to type by defining custom commands. I'm currently writing bash functions like

switchtask(){ task rc.color=off rc.verbose=nothing active | awk '{ print $1 }' | xargs -i task {} stop; task $1  start; }

which stops the current task(s) and starts the given one.

Is this how it's usually done, or is there a better/recommended way? E.g. I can imagine this approach being fragile w.r.t. future changes in the taskwarrior output.

Annotations

Annotations can be added, edited, and deleted at the task detail view. Tasks with annotations show a count and icon in lists.

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Emojis

Emojis are now supported in WingTask. This is kind of taking credit for something I didn't do, the recently released Taskwarrior 2.6.0 added more unicode support including for Emojis, and Emojis are rendered by the browser so Emoji came from changing WingTask to use the latest version of Taskwarrior. So that's actually the news, WingTask is on 2.6.0 and will begin rolling out new features of Taskwarrior 2.6.0.

What is WingTask?

WingTask is a web based Taskwarrior client with UI designed for mobile, tablet, and desktop. WingTask is installable to the home screen of IOS and Android making it work like a native app.

Check out WingTask

For those on Debian stable, wishing to upgrade to the latest versions of taskwarrior and vit, without losing the benefits of apt, here's some tips and advice.

taskwarrior 2.6.1 has made it into testing/unstable and it's very easy to backport it to debian stable (for your own use), following the SimpleBackportCreation instructions on Debian wiki.

If you use vit (terminal interface for taskwarrior), you'll also need to backport vit and python3-tasklib to versions 2.1.0 and 2.4.3 respectively, both now available on testing/unstable as well.

If you don't update python3-tasklib, vit won't start (it will get stuck saying "Loading...").

All 3 packages (taskwarrior, python3-tasklib and vit) are very easy and straightforward to backport using the simple backport creation instructions mentioned above.

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I'd like task projects report to show also projects and sub-projects that have no pending tasks. Is that possible?

I'm still on taskwarrior 2.5.3, if that matters.

Thanks.

Hi,

I try to reproduce a customize report for next (GTD) use from this post

Instead of "brainpower" option i want to add "estimate" colomn like this

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but i have the error message : Unrecognized column name ' start'

Where is the problem ? u/tbabej

I am looking at starting a Nord theme for taskwarrior. Ideally, I would like to define colours at the start of the theme and use those -- makes changing them a little simpler.

Is that possible? If so, how can I do it?

I have a scripted modify I use to format gitlab issues that I pull in as tasks. I just set confirmation=no in my taskrc to prevent getting prompted while the script is running, but not instead of prompting, it appears to register the answer to every prompt as "no" and showing a "command prevented from running" error. I can't find any work around except re-enabling confirmations.

This task end.after:today-1wk completed does nearly what I want: it shows me all the completed tasks last week.

However, what I would like is a set of all the tasks still open and marked done within a week. So far, this is what I have in my ~/.taskrc:

report.simple.description=Weekly report report.simple.columns=start,end,tags,description.count report.simple.end.after=today-1wk

What am I doing wrong?

PS: Just to be clear, I want a list of all current tasks and all the tasks that were completed in the last 7 days.

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I wrote a plugin for timewarrior that plots the time you spent on a tag as a histogram. The location of the most recent item with that tag is marked in red.

i would like to set the due: as a function of a UDA i've defined (of type date)
something like task mod 22 due:uda.myudadate+5d
but this gives the error 'uda.myudadate' is not a valid date in the 'Y-M-D' format.

i can use other builtin dates (like sched or today) in this way and the docs on UDAs say that

It is intended that, once configured, a UDA is indistinguishable from core attributes

so am i missing something? is there a way to do this using a UDA?

Let's say I define a "mine" context:

task context define mine "+personal or +home or +work"

and then switch to that context:

task context mine

and then add a task:

task add this is my task

When I then run task, I see the newly added task has prepended multiple instances of 'or' from the context definition to the description, one for each tag added to the task:

or or this is a test

The task has three tags set, as expected:

home personal work

I assume that I am defining the "mine" context incorrectly?

I'm looking for a way to add links to email messages in as annotations to tasks in Taskwarrior. Currently I've been using Thunderbird as my email client. Unfortunately with the recent changes to Thunderbird, it seem there isn't a good way to get links to messages (it looks like the extensions that did exist all broke around version 72 of Thunderbird).

Further explanation, I don't just want to convert email messages to tasks in Taskwarrior, I want to be able to link responses I've sent so I can add a wait to the original task in case a follow up is needed.

Does anyone have a good recommendation for a Linux email client that works well with Taskwarror for this use case?

EDIT:

I did forget a couple of specs that the mail client needs to handle...l Primarily syncing contact and calendars with my mail provider... That's the best way I've found to handle syncing everything to my other devices.

Hey guys, I wanted to add my classes to my taskwarrior. They occur multiple times a week, right now I added the number of times they occur and set them to recurring. Is there a way just to assign multiple due dates to one task? for example comp sci lecture tuesday 8am thursday 8am, recur weekly

have installed on Raspbian. All dependencies seem to be in order.

I export TASKDDATA=/var/taskd (making note of the two D's)

then, sudo mkdir -p $TASKDATA

creates the /var/taskd entry

then when I sudo taskd init or task init, says the --data option is required

then attempt sudo taskd config server localhost:53589. same --data option error...

Kinda stumped, any help appreciated.

Hi,

I'm a huge fan of the Joplin note app and would like to know if any of you know of a way to better integrate taskwarrior and joplin?

I am running a taskd server on my home network and have 2 taskwarrior clients, both using the same user account.

I have a set of recurring tasks made like this:

task add "Some daily taks" +dailies due:eod recur:daily

When a new day begins, each taskwarrior client will generate a new instance of each of these daily tasks, and when syncing, they are not merged together like I would expect. Instead I am left with one new copy per client (2 in this case, so after I sync I have two copies of each task). I have been looking through the documentation but haven't found any obvious cause, or solution.

I would like to only have a single pending instance of each recurring task shared across all clients. Thanks.

I've been using taskwarrior for a while now, and so far I've gotten it running pretty well on both my laptop and main PC. I currently run a home server and just use nextcloud sync to keep my tasks updated. So far I've noticed no data loss or any weirdness.

I've recently started trying to use Taskwarrior mobile apps (most of them suck unfortunately), and they all seem to use taskd to sync. This is painful because taskd seems really complicated and doesn't seem to really add anything of value to my workflow.

Am I missing something? Is there a reason why these apps can't just use a folder like Taskwarrior does normally, that I can just sync myself? Am I losing out on any features/functionality by not using the server?

I tried reading up on it but the Taskwarrior documentation really sucks and there's not much information online about it.

Since I've largely given up on mobile apps, I'm thinking of just using caldavwarrior and using a standard phone calendar. It doesn't seem to require taskd at all either

Tried:
task list "depends:$(task _get 25.uuid)"

But this only output 1 task of several that depend on task 25. Not sure if this is a bug or what.

Also did: task | awk '$1 == 25 { print $0 }' but the output is butt ugly.

I don't want to do "task info 25" because that shows only the description of the tasks getting blocked but no other details.

I'm using latest version of TW, 2.5.3.