Taskwarrior is a command-line task manager designed for people who want to organise their work without relying on a graphical application. It provides a flexible system for recording tasks, assigning priorities, tracking deadlines and organising activities into projects.
The application can accommodate anything from a straightforward shopping list to a complex collection of work commitments. Rather than imposing one particular method of organisation, Taskwarrior allows users to construct workflows around the information most relevant to them.
Tasks are stored locally, with facilities for synchronising changes between computers. Its extensibility also makes it attractive to users who want to integrate task management with scripts, terminal interfaces and other applications.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Create, modify, complete and delete tasks from the command line.
- Organise tasks into projects and assign multiple tags.
- Set priorities, due dates, scheduled dates and deadlines.
- Recurring tasks for regular commitments.
- Task dependencies for activities that must be completed in a particular order.
- Customisable reports with configurable columns and sorting.
- Powerful filtering with logical operators and regular expressions.
- Context definitions for displaying tasks relevant to the current activity.
- Calculated urgency scores to help prioritise work.
- User-defined attributes for storing additional task information.
- Interactive task editing using a preferred text editor.
- Hooks and external scripts for extending functionality.
- JSON import and export for exchanging task information.
- TaskChampion-based storage and synchronisation, including support for self-hosted synchronisation servers.
- Configurable terminal colours and output formatting.
- Cross-platform support – runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: taskwarrior.org
Support:
Developer: Paul Beckingham, Federico Hernandez, David J Patrick, John Florian, Cory Donnelly, Johannes Schlatow and contributors
License: MIT License
Taskwarrior is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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