04 Sep 2022

Taskwarrior better use of default values

Goal: separate commands running separate taskwarrior reports/filters. But also usable to add tasks etc.

Previously (Day 728 - serhii.net) I used things like this in my zshrc:

th () {task s project.not:w sprint.not:s "$*"}

Found a better way:

## TASKWARRIOR
# All todos from both work and home
TW_WORK="rc.default.project:w rc.default.command:s"
TW_HOME="rc.default.project: rc.default.command:th"
# "Important tasks"
TW_I="rc.default.command:i"

# Work
alias s="task $TW_WORK"
# Home
alias t="task $TW_HOME"

# All pending tasks from all projects
alias ta="task rc.default.command:next"
# "Important" tags - report `i`
alias ti="task $TW_I"

This means: s runs taskwarrior and the s report, which shows work-only tasks; if I do s add whatever the task gets added automatically inside project:w.

For completeness, the code for each of these reports (~/.taskrc):

############
# REPORTS
############
report.s.description='Work tasks'
report.s.columns=id,project,tags,due.relative,description
report.s.labels=ID,Project,T,D,Desc
#report.s.sort=due+
report.s.sort=project-/,urgency+
report.s.filter=status:pending  -s
report.s.filter=status:pending ((project:w -s) or (+o or +a or +ACTIVE))

report.i.description='Important / priority'
report.i.columns=id,project,tags,due.relative,description
report.i.labels=ID,Project,T,D,Desc
report.i.sort=project-/,urgency+
report.i.filter=status:pending (+o or +a or +ACTIVE)

report.th.description='Home tasks'
report.th.columns=id,project,tags,due.relative,description
report.th.labels=ID,Project,T,D,Desc
report.th.sort=project-/,urgency+
report.th.filter=status:pending  -s
# report.th.filter=status:pending ((project.not:w project.not:l -srv -sd) or (+o or +a or +w or +ACTIVE))
report.th.filter=status:pending ((project.not:w project.not:l -srv -sd) or (+o or +a or +ACTIVE))

#Someday
report.sd.columns=id,start.age,depends,est,project,tags,sprint,recur,scheduled.countdown,due.relative,until.remaining,description,urgency
report.sd.labels=D,Active,Deps,E,Project,Tag,S,Recur,S,Due,Until,Description,Urg
report.sd.filter=status:pending (sprint:s or +sd)

# srv -- for continuously needed tasks like starting to work etc
report.srv.description='srv'
report.srv.columns=id,project,tags,pri,est,description,urgency
report.srv.labels=ID,Project,T,P,E,Description,U
report.srv.sort=urgency-
report.srv.filter=status:pending +srv

# Currently active task - for scripts
report.a.description='Currently active task'
report.a.columns=id,description #,project
report.a.labels=ID,D #,P
report.a.filter=+ACTIVE

report.next.filter=status:pending -srv -sd

urgency.user.tag.o.coefficient=10
urgency.user.tag.a.coefficient=5
urgency.user.tag.w.coefficient=3

Nel mezzo del deserto posso dire tutto quello che voglio.