Use for programming questions related to Taskwarrior, such as questions regarding hook scripts. Questions about Taskwarrior usage and customization should be asked on Super User.
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TaskWarrior automatically modify UDA
I have a question. Let's say that I have created User Defined Attribute attr with values A,B,C.
How to configure taskwarrior to automatically change the attr value from A to B when I enter
task x start
and change attr from B to C when
task x…
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Taskwarrior: How to show just the most urgent task
I adore taskwarrior, it seems to be the only management app that you can dial in what you decide is the most urgent. Not just due today, or overdue, but a combination of values.
I want to put the top urgency task in a bunch of scripts and widgets…
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add an annotation with "add" command in Taskwarrior
Can I add an annotation to a task in Taskwarrior while creating it like that?
task add Description annotation:Anno
Normaly I have to do it with two commands
task add Description
task 1 annotate Anno
buhtz says get vaccinated
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How to close multiple tasks in taskwarrior?
I forgot to do a recurring task and I now have it 10 times in my task list. Is there a way to close the task for instance: task range ids 10-25 done
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Taskwarrior - How not to display the age of a task
I am using taskwarrior together with conky and to make the format look nicer, I want to modify, what information is actually given by taskwarrior.
In particular, I do not want it to display the "Age" column of a task.
Right now it looks like…
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Taskserver handshake failed: Can't use SLL_get_servername
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In an effort to automate installing and setting up taskserver for taskwarrior, this installation procedure was written, based on these instructions. This installation procedure is ran on an Ubuntu 18.04 Virtual Box instance on an Ubuntu…
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Adding tasks that others depend on in one line
Is there a way to add a task and specify that other tasks depend on this one in one line?? For example, I'm basically trying to do this:
task add proj:one Base task # task 1
task add proj:one subtask1 blocks:1 # task 2
task add proj:one…
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What package does taskwarrior use to generate the tables on the command line?
I was wondering if taskwarrior uses any open-source packages to generate its output or have they written it completely from scratch? I would like to generate CLI output in a similar format, i.e. colored text, properly formatted tables, and different…
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GNUTLS or libuuid missing while building taskwarrior from source code in Windows 10
For the past 4 days I have been working to get taskwarrior and taskwarrior server running on windows 10. It has proven quite a challenge for me.
I followed the steps written below: "Building the Stable Version" on…
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extracting taskwarrior filter in bash function
I try to add an alias to annotate a task (taskwarrior):
function ta() {
task $1 annotate ${@:2}
}
could be a good alias but $1 can't be a multiple filter words. Is there a way to recover the entire taskwarrior filter?
ta +bob "annotation" will…
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Returning the index of a at error: "malformed JSON string" in for loop of perl-JSON script
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In order to debug a corrupt taskwarrior task list consisting of the files: backlog.data, completed.data, pending.data and undo.data I modified a perl script from the taskwarrior hooks at https://taskwarrior.org/tools/. As I am debugging the…
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