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by dcchambers 658 days ago
I LOVE taskwarrior but I feel any TODO software that can't easily be synced across devices is a nonstarter these days.

Sure I could throw the sqlite db in Dropbox or something, but there's no good way to manage the TODOs on a phone.

Every 6-12 months I'll give it another try and love it but feel it's just too limiting for most personal tasks.

I do like to use it for work tasks that aren't tracked in Jira...so stuff I generally only care about when I'm at a computer.
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shagie 658 days ago
https://taskwarrior.org/docs/commands/synchronize/

> The synchronize command, which first appeared in version 2.3.0, allows your Taskwarrior instance to share tasks with other instances. You can have several instances making local changes all of which sync to a single server, and they will all be kept up to date, with changes flowing from instance to instance.

    $ task sync
    Syncing with foo.example.com:53589

    Sync successful.  1 changes uploaded.
There was a site inthe.am which provided sync service. While that's been shut down, the code is available on https://github.com/coddingtonbear/inthe.am - the local hosting wasn't ever finished or not designed with that in mind ( https://github.com/coddingtonbear/inthe.am )
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Enginerrrd 658 days ago
There IS an android implementation on the play store I think. I ended up just running task warrior on a VPS and shelling in though. But that UI sucks on a phone.
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climb_stealth 658 days ago
I use this one [0] to run Taskwarrior on Android. It's abandonware but still works well enough for me. Enough for adding, removing, moving and ticking off tasks. I have the TaskWarrior server running on a VPS. Only works with the 2.x versions of TaskWarrior though as that is what is integrated in the app. Both the app and PC sync to the server instance with the Taskwarrior native sync functionality.

Would love to see some proper multi-device support in the latest release. The above setup works in itself. But the app is not being maintained anymore and Android as an OS has moved on. For example the launcher shortcuts for task filters stopped working with some Android update. And I guess Taskwarrior itself has moved on as well with v3. I'm not going to use it though as long as there is no multi-device support.

Oh well. So far I have not been bothered enough to have a go at making it work myself. There are probably as many flavours of Taskwarrior clients as there are users :)

[0] https://bitbucket.org/kvorobyev/taskwarriorandroid/wiki/Home

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