Taskwarrior is a free and open source command line todo task management application for Linux, Windows and MacOS. Using Taskwarrior, you can create, delete and manage your task and add due dates and recurrence easily. It also comes with priorities, tags, project groups, filter task, report, human-readable text files for storage, JSON support, extension scripts support and more.
How to install Taskwarrior on Ubuntu
Taskwarrior is available from the default Ubuntu repositoriy. Open the terminal app (ctrl+alt+t) and run below command. It will install the latest version of Taskwarrior on your system.
sudo apt install taskwarrior
After that run below command to create configuration file and a data directory.
task version
Type yes and press the enter key to confirm it. It will create configuration file and a data directory.
Create Task
You can add new task using below command. Just replace “My First Task” with your task.
task add My First Task
task add My Second Task
List all Tasks
Now run below command to list active tasks.
task
To mark task 2 as completed, run below
task 2 done
Delete the task permanently
You can also delete your task permanently using below command.
task 1 delete
For the complete Taskwarrior usage details, run below command
man task
