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How to Install Taskwarrior (Terminal Based Todo Application)
Taskwarrior is an open-source, cross-platform time and task management tool. It has a command-line interface rather than a graphical user interface. If you spend a lot of time on Linux terminal (as a developer or system administrator) then constantly switching to a web app or another GUI based todo applications may not be a very productive thing to do. In that case, you may want to try a simple command line application instead. This article explains How to install Taskwarrior in Ubuntu.
To install Taskwarrior, use the following command –
$ sudo apt-get install task
The sample output should be like this –
Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libcgmanager0:i386 libdrm2:i386 libhdb9-heimdal libkdc2-heimdal libntdb1 libpng12-0:i386 libudev1:i386 python-ntdb Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following NEW packages will be installed: task 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 861 kB of archives. After this operation, 2,104 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://ubuntu.excellmedia.net/archive/ trusty/universe task amd64 2.2.0-3 [861 kB] Fetched 861 kB in 1s (643 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package task. (Reading database ... 281767 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../task_2.2.0-3_amd64.deb ... Unpacking task (2.2.0-3) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ... Setting up task (2.2.0-3) ...
To use taskwarior, use the following command –
$ task
To add task to taskwarior, use the following command –
$ task add Example task due:Tomorrow
In the above command,Example task is a task information. To see the above task, use the following command –
$ task
The sample output should be like this –
[task next] ID Due Age Urg Description 1 4/26/2016 12s 8.64 Example task 1 task
To find a list of all pending tasks, use the following command –
$ task long
To complete the task information,completed tasks will no longer show up in the output of “task long”, but can be seen only with “task all”. use the following command-
$ task done
To delete the task, use the following command –
$ task delete
To mark a task as started,use the following command –
$ task start
To mark a task as stopped, use the following command –
$ task stop
To modify an existing task, use the following command –
$ task modify
To syncing tasks between multiple computers running task warrior, you have to use dropbox with push,pull, and merge as shown bellow-
Push
This command pushes the local task data into Dropbox. Now, on the other computer, you can get these tasks.
$ task push ~/Dropbox/
Pull
The other computer can get these tasks using the following command –
$ task pull ~/Dropbox/
Merge
This way, you get to keep your local tasks as well as get any updated tasks from the other computer. You also have the option of pushing the merged task data to Dropbox, use the following command –
$ task merge ~/Dropbox/
To get more information about taskwarior, use the following command –
$ task help
The sample output should be like this –
Usage: task Runs rc.default.command, if specified. task active Lists active tasks task add Adds a new task task all Lists all pending and completed tasks task annotate Adds an annotation to an existing task task append Appends text to an existing task description task blocked Lists all blocked tasks task blocking Lists all blocking tasks task burndown.daily Shows a graphical burndown chart, by day task burndown.monthly Shows a graphical burndown chart, by month task burndown.weekly Shows a graphical burndown chart, by week task calendar [due| |] [y] Shows a calendar, with due tasks marked task colors [sample | legend] All colors, a sample, or a legend task columns [substring] All supported columns and formatting styles task completed Lists completed tasks task config [name [value | '']] Change settings in the task configuration task count Counts matching tasks task delete Deletes the specified task task denotate Deletes an annotation task diagnostics Platform, build and environment details ................................................................................................
After this article, you will be able to understand – How to Install Taskwarrior (terminal based todo application). In our next articles, we will come up with more Linux based tricks and tips. Keep reading!
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