Synchronising Taskwarrior tasks with a Taskserver
Context
I recently started using Taskwarrior, to manage my
todo list.
I had used Todo.txt a bit, but in the end I stopped using it as it didn't fit
my needs.
Since then, I have been using QOwnNotes combined with some scripting, but it was not perfect either.
So when I stumbled upon Taskwarrior (I forgot how), I decided to give it a go.
Feedback
Taskwarrior (TW) is easy to use through its cli: you manage you todos using a combination of projects, tags and contexts (if you want to filter things out). You can set due dates, priorities etc.
√ ~ % task project:perso
ID Age Project Description Urg
15 6d perso reinstall PineBook Pro 1.83
2024-02-16 https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=11484
16 6d perso 2FA SSH FreeBSD 1.83
2024-02-16 https://www.dan.me.uk/blog?post=b9d8a548f868ec5bd00802b6563d907e8f52c642
It is simple and straight to the point, and I like it.
Synchronizing tasks
One thing I absolutely need is synchronizing tasks between different computers.
While TW provides a "Task
Server", I wanted to see whether
I could use something simpler: since TW uses flat files, I tried synchronizing
it with Nextcloud, including my taskrc (TW's configuration file).
And it worked beautifully! Of course there's one caveat: it won't deal with conflicts (i.e. if you create one task on 1 PC, and at the same time another task on a 2nd PC, then next time Nextcloud syncs, it will ask you to resolve the conflict... manually.
Edit
I wrote that article a couple of weeks ago, and Taskwarrior 3.0 got released a month ago, and is ditching support for the Taskserver, instead using cloud storage backend - pretty much what I did :-)
See that page for more details.
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