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Excluding a project when searching TaskWarrior

Context

I have been using Taskwarrior for some weeks now (see that article), and one thing that annoyed me was the unability to exclude specific things from the search.

While it's possible to exclude tags by using a - (e.g. task -personal), I could not find a way to exclude a specific project.

Searching the man page yielded no result.

Solution

Today was one of these days were I did search on DuckDuckGo surely in a slightly different manner, since this time I found an answer on Stackoverflow: it's a simple as adding a .not modifier, e.g.:

task project.not:<PROJECT_NAME>

(Note that there are other answers which are not that relevant, or more of a workaround!)

Tags: IT