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Taskwiki: Proper project management with Taskwarrior in Vim
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Proper project management with Taskwarrior in vim.
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Proper project management with Taskwarrior in vim.
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I use taskwarrior daily at work primarily for its dependencies and recurring tasks. For example, when I pick up a case to work on, I'll immediately add it: task add…
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| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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10 sourcesAre you talking about taskwiki[0]?
[0]: https://github.com/tools-life/taskwiki
In TaskwarriorI use taskwarrior in combination with taskwiki and occasional taskwarrior-tui usage. Taskwiki allows me to store arbitrary notes in markdown files while keeping the relevant tasks list auto-generated and synchronized with data in the task tracker. It works really well together.
[0]: https://github.com/GothenburgBitFactory/taskwarrior
[1]: https://github.com/tools-life/taskwiki
[2]: https://github.com/kdheepak/taskwarrior-tui
In Ask HN: How do you organize yourself ?I just started migrating to taskwarrior which great due to the many clients. Actually its integration with vimwiki via the taskwiki plugin [1] is quite powerfull allowing editable views. Wonder if this dag aproach could be integrated via metadata without loosing compatibility.
[1] https://github.com/tools-life/taskwiki
In Show HN: Grit – a multitree-based personal task managerfor those looking for another open source task tracker, taskwarrior[1] is a good cli option. You can use VIT[2], curses-based front-end to taskwarrior. I don't use VIT, but taskwarrior integrates nicely with vimwiki using taskwiki[3].
[1] https://taskwarrior.org/
[2] https://github.com/scottkosty/vit
[3] https://github.com/tools-life/taskwiki
In Dijo: A terminal-based habit tracker written in RustYou can get basically the same thing with Vim and Taskwarrior; this is my preferred solution because I tend to live in Vim (for better or worse) and there are Taskwarrior clients that sync to everything. You can search the whole thing, and version control it if you want. It's a bit more manual but I'd argue equal in effectiveness.
https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki
https://github.com/tbabej/taskwiki
In Noteplan – Markdown Calendar, Todos, and NotesI use taskwarrior daily at work primarily for its dependencies and recurring tasks.
For example, when I pick up a case to work on, I'll immediately add it:
task add project:team.kanban case-1234 Add the frob
Then as I inspect and think about the parts that need to be done, I'll add a bunch more pieces as sub-projects:
task add project:team.kanban.case-1234 Query backend for the data
task add project:team.kanban.case-1234 Send ajax call/store in redux
task add project:team.kanban.case-1234 Add to UI
task add project:team.kanban.case-1234 Use the new widget for filters
task add project:team.kanban.case-1234 Make filters work
Then I go back and decide which pieces here I want to do before the others. If, in order, the above tasks were IDs 1-6, then:
task 3 modify depends:2
task 4 modify depends:3
task 6
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modify depends:5
task 1 modify depends:2,3,4,5,6
So at this point, only tasks 2 and 5 are unblocked and can be started on. It externalizes the state of the case, so I don't really even have to think about what to do next (hence the name of the default report, "next") or how far done I am. A good way of thinking about how I choose this breakout is, what could I commit without breaking the build?
If you also use vimwiki, there's another plugin that works on top of it called taskwiki [0] that lets you use use a taskwarrior filter to show a set of tasks in the wiki, that auto-update. It even shows dependencies as indented todolist items (though the above example wouldn't work because tasks 2, 3, and 5 each have two tasks that depend on it; this and a few other things has me writing my own vim plugin for vimwiki that'll handle handle the above, plus a few other differences).
[0] https://github.com/tbabej/taskwiki
Me too. I had a spate where I went over to using emacs (built my own setup around spacemacs). It was very powerful, and I found stuff like helm, projectile very nice (org-mode with export to reveal.js was sexy as hell). But then I just dropped it all and went back to vim again.
For me it seems to be down to the following. When I am working with vim, I feel like I am in the same eco-system as my shell, there is a really nice continuity, whereas emacs feels like a separate entity (almost like I have an separate instance of a word processor open). I am aware emacs can be run in the shell without its GUI, but it still felt like it was separately sitting its own world.
For org stuff, I now use taskwarrior [1], which embeds into vim using taskwiki [2] and vimwiki [3] (which provides markdown export)
[1] https://taskwarrior.org/
[2] https://gith
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While I never got on terms with orgmode, I cannot praise vimwiki high enough. It's intuitive and simple enough to not have very steep learning curve.
I use it with taskwiki [1] extension, which stores all the tasks in the awesome Taskwarrior [2] CLI task manager. With this, I have my tasks in my text files, searchable just a command away on the CLI or my mobile phone via the Android app.
[1] https://taskwarrior.org/
[2] https://github.com/tbabej/taskwiki
In VimWiki – A personal wiki for VimFor all plain-text file lovers out there, there's actually quite a good tool that combines both the power of plain text files (i.e. Markdown) and taskwarrior called taskwiki [1]. Provides the best of the both worlds to me, tasks in plain text files synced to TW -> synced to Taskserver -> synced to mobile app. I can also use all the power of Taskwarrior directly on the command line.
[1] https://github.com/tbabej/taskwiki
In Taskwarrior – intelligent TODO list