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by CrimsnBlade 3857 days ago
I love the simplicity of this.

If there were a way to add alerts when things are coming up that would be a good option. I know there have been times I've made a TODO list thinking I was getting organized, forgot about it, and never got my task done.

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I put `task` in my .bashrc so it would run every time I open a terminal (which is a lot for me). Since TW sorts by urgency (which it determines on some values, and you can override it if you wish), that is as good as a reminder.
I use this too. I open and close terminals a lot so I created a special tag for tasks that I want to "prompt myself about" and these are printed concisely at the top of every new interactive shell.

I need to take the time to try the newest web interface tools and check out the json output. My major issues with taskwarrior have been with having native clients on other platforms. Taskwarrior is lightning fast on my desktop and laptop... It's speed and ease of use are why I love using it. But the quality of the various third party sync, web UI, and native app integration opportunities has left me let down.

Unfortunately all of this stems from a lack of a definition of what a task actually is. At some level we could have a standard like CalDAV. But CalDAV embeds the tasks in other junk, and a separate TaskDAV is not likely as long as the tasks as calendar item paradigm solves 80% of people's task related needs.