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Resurfaced independently across 8 calendar years, with breakout response in 3 of them.

submissions
9
submitters
9
observed span
2011–2024
peak thread · 80 comments
248 pts
latest 20+ return · 2024-08-27
173 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.

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I use `taskwarrior` every day and greatly enjoy it. There's a number of other terminal TODO management solutions that I've dabbled with but `taskwarrior` is just so feature rich and can be adapted to suit your workflow quite easily. There's also `timewarrior`, which complements `taskwarrior` pretty well. I'm not affiliated with the `taskwarrior` project, but I wanted to say that if you like the project and are interested in contributing, one way you can do so is by donating to…

Self plug, I'm developing a minimal gui for Taskwarrior, focused on keyboard navigation. https://github.com/tmahmood/taskwarrior-web/ Task warrior is the my core of task management, as I've ADHD,I lost track of my task if it's not easily visible, this ui helps me with that. It shows timer for active task on the top. Future plan is to integrate time warrior too.

In another comment thread on Taskwarrior, someone more intelligent than me suggested just using plain dirs and files, one file per task. Then you get all of Unix for free, with any metadata you want as part of the filename or contents. I'm a former org-mode user who now just uses a paper book, but if I still wanted to use a computer, dirs+files would be hard to beat. One or more folders for todo, one or more folders for…

gglitch·152-point thread·

I've been using Taskwarrior for a few weeks as my primary task manager, and I have to say it's a beautiful extension of the principles of Todo.[txt/sh]. The only thing missing for me is the ability to apply modifications to filters instead of needing to use explicit task ID lists. For example: task proj:Foo due:tomorrow Instead of: task 1,2,3,7,10-12 due:tomorrow. For oh-my-zsh users, I've got an open pull request for adding a Taskwarrior autocompletion plugin: https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/pull/370…

lepht·77-point thread·

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Breakout years
3

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
657

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Total comments
219

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Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2011-05-29Taskwarrior is a time and task management tool (terminal)adulau7731
2014-07-28Taskwarriorgjvc10
2015-02-03Taskwarrior – What's next?steeples10
2016-04-30Taskwarrior – intelligent TODO listFirst breakoutalbertzeyer15280
2017-11-07Taskwarrior: Powerfull TODO list tool in command lineinp20
2020-05-30Taskwarriorsdan20
2020-09-28Taskwarriorsmusamashah10
2022-05-15TaskwarriorBest threadtosh24838
2024-08-27Taskwarrior – CLI Task ManagementLatest 20+ point returnhttbs17370