Although I’m not always as productive as I’d like to be, I do keep a lot of to-do lists on a multitude of topics. Writing stuff down helps me to fall asleep.

In the past I used Google Tasks but I’m trying to reduce my use of Google products, so I’ve switched to Gothenburg Bit Factory's TaskWarrior.

There were a variety of options but I have chosen this one for these reasons:

• It’s open source

• It’s offline-first

• It has a way to sync to your phone

As most of the other tools for TaskWarrior do not yet support version 3.0 I am still using 2.6.1 but I might upgrade in the future.

In the terminal I use Dheepak Krishnamurthy's TUI to manage my tasks but I also use the TaskWhisperer Gnome extension.

Although it is possible to self-host your task server I have decided to start by using Tim Case's WingTask server which is free.

On my phone I use CCExtractor’s TaskWarrior app. Its not a very pretty app but it works.

TaskWarrior also has a companion app for time tracking called TimeWarrior but I dont use that (yet)

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So far I am quite pleased with TaskWarrior. Although I don’t use this feature yet, Task Warrior supports tags, which Google Tasks does not. I have also not yet started to use TaskWarrior’s Context feature but I plan to do so soon because I have quite a lot of Projects and I don’t always need to see all of them.

My self-imposed rules for TaskWarrior are:

• it’s not a museum. if a task has been untouched for a long time it has to go.

• all tasks must be actionable. so no wishes or dreams

• tasks must be atomic (projects are goals)

• once i start using tags I will use it so I can batch tasks by person, place or time.

Give it a try!

taskwarrior.org