| Taskwarrior | |
| Author: | Paul Beckingham |
| Developer: | Paul Beckingham, Tomas Babej, Renato Alves, Federico Hernandez, Wim Schuermann, Johannes Schlatow, Cory Donnelly, Scott Kostyshak, Dirk Deimeke, David J Patrick |
| Latest Release Version: | |
| Latest Preview Version: | 3.0.0 |
| Programming Language: | C++[1] |
| Operating System: | Windows (Cygwin), Linux, Mac OS X, BSD |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Task management, Time management |
| License: | MIT License |
Taskwarrior is an open-source, cross platform time and task management tool, used to keep track of and handle tasks. It uses a command-line interface, although since its inception, graphical user interface wrappers have also been created.
Taskwarrior uses concepts and techniques described in Getting Things Done by David Allen, but is paradigm-agnostic in that it does not require users to adhere to any given life-management philosophy.[2]
According to its author, Taskwarrior was created "to address layout and feature issues"[3] in the Todo.txt applications popularized by Gina Trapani.[4] The authors offer an accompanying tool called Timewarrior for tracking time spent on projects.[5] Configuration allows e. g. to define recurring breaks such as lunch time.[6] The documentation notes that "Timewarrior focuses on accurately recording time already spent, whereas Taskwarrior looks forward to work that is not yet done."[7]
Taskwarrior's source code is a free and open-source software and can be either compiled from source code to run on a variety of architectures and operating systems, or installed as a binary, which is available on many Linux distribution binary repositories.
Taskwarrior comprises three main commands: add, list, and done. All other functionality – recurrences, tags, priorities, etc. – are optional.
When used in conjunction with Taskserver, can sync tasks into the cloud, and indirectly with other clients/devices.