Task

Task is an open source, command-line, TODO list manager.

Here you will find information on how to acquire, build, configure, use and become proficient with the task program.

More documents are being written, and will be added here.

Alternatively, watch the task movie which illustrates many of task's features.

Get the Latest Source Release task-1.4.0.tar.gz

New in version 1.4.0 (7/10/2008)

Added new recurring tasks feature
Added "task undelete" feature to restore a (very) recently deleted task
Added averages to the "task history" report
Added bar chart history report "task ghistory"
Added support for rc:<file> to allow override of the default ~/.taskrc file
Added support for relative due: dates, such as "tomorrow", "friday", "23rd", "eom"
Added support for task filtering on all reports
Automatically shuts off color, ncurses when output is not to a tty
Added support for the ~ character in .taskrc data.location, for flexibility
Allows colons on the description, provided what is to the left of the colon is not a standard attribute name
Fixed bug where Esc[0m sequences were being emitted for no good reason
Fixed bug where table headers are underlined when color is turned off
Fixed bug where adding a blank priority resulted in an assigned garbage value
Fixed bug parsing date "07/08/2008" when using dateformat "m/d/Y"

(Find out what was new in prior versions)

Troubleshooting

Task has been built and tested in the following environments:

OS X 10.4 Tiger
OS X 10.5 Leopard
Fedora Core 8
Fedora Core 9
Ubuntu 8 Hardy Heron
Solaris 10
Cygwin 1.5.25-14

If you have difficulties building task, have found a bug, have a suggestion for improvement, or a feature request, please send mail to task@beckingham.net.

Take a look at the troubleshooting guide for tips and workarounds to problems.