tasks

How to create tasks, manage tasks and stay productive.

Creating tasks

A day has 24 hours, of which 8 are for sleep, 8 are for work, and 8 for the rest. There's only so much time you can be productive in a day, so it's key to utilize your time efficiently and spend as little time (and mental power) as possible on side tasks.

A neat strategy to create value for your day is to create an achievable goal for the day, and write down a max of 5 items that help you achieve that goal.

Managing tasks

Managing tasks is something you want to spend the minimum amount of time on as it doesn't produce any direct value. For that purpose I use a program called task(1) (taskwarrior).

Create

Tasks can be created and assigned to projects

$ task add project:myProject +myLabel 'This is my task'

Read

Tasks can be printed to stdout, filtered by project and further filtered by label name. You can also specify when a task is due in natural language.

$ task project:myProject +myLabel due.before: today ls
ID D Project   Due   Description
 1   myProject 1 day create `pull build` bar

1 task

Update

Tasks can depend on each other

$ task 1 modify depends:2-4

Read subcommand

All tasks accept a <filter> property.

task blocked                         # blocking tasks
task active                          # started but not completed
task burndown.{daily,weekly,monthly} # burndown chart
task calendar                        # calendar with due tasks marked
task count                           # amount of tasks matching filter
task export                          # export to JSON
task ghistory.{monthly,annual}       # graphic report of task status
task next                            # most urgent task
task overdue                         # tasks which are beyond the due date
task recurring                       # all recurring tasks

Write subcommands

All tasks accept a <filter> property.

task add          # add a new task
task annotate     # add an annotation to a task
task append       # append description text to a task
task delete       # delete the task
task denotate     # remove an annotation from a task
task done         # mark a task as done
task duplicate    # duplicate the task and allow modifications
task edit         # edit the task in an editor
task import       # import a task from JSON
task log          # add an already completed task to the list
task modify       # edit an existing task
task prepend      # prepend description text to a task
task start        # mark the specified tasks as started
task stop         # remove the start time from the task

Misc subcommands

task context <name>                 # set the active context
task context delete <name>          # delete the context
task context define <name> <filter> # define a new context
task context list                   # print all contexts
task context none                   # unset current context
task context show                   # show the currently active context
task diagnostics                    # show diagnostic information for bug reports
task execute                        # execute an external command
task logo                           # print taskwarrior logo
task reports                        # list all supported reports
task show                           # show current settings
task stats                          # show stats
task timesheet                      # show weekly report of task completed & started
task undo                           # undo the last action
task version                        # show the version

Attributes & metadata

[tbd]

Attribute modifiers

[tbd]

Context

[tbd]

Regexes

Regexes are kind of tricky. Here's an example to add a new context that matches a regex:

$ task context define myProject "project ~ 'myProject/*'"

See also

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