Using taskwarrior to stay disciplined with side projects

February 17, 2024

Taskwarrior

Taskwarrior is an OSS CLI (to make it fancier, let’s call it TUI - terminal UI) based task manager. I have been using it for sometime and it works great for my use case.

My Earlier Post on setting GUI notifications

I wanted some discipline in progressing with my side projects most of which are on github and here’s what I did:

set up a script which overrides task warrior’s data directory to current directory if it’s a git repository, this is so that I can segregate my todo tasks
set up another script (alias rather) which spits the pending task whenever I cd into it

What it looks like

task-warrior-demo

Here is the script and alias

#task warrior
task_git() {
    if [ -d .git ]; then
        export TASKDATA="$(pwd)"
    else
        export TASKDATA="~/.task"
    fi
    task "$@"
    unset TASKDATA
}


# invoke task list in valid git repo
cd() {
    builtin cd "$@"
    
    if [ -d .git ]; then
        task list
    fi
}

PS: As a dutiful programmer I spend more time tinkering around tooling and productivity instead of actually doing something. lol