Re: [PLUG] Walt's presentation on taskwarrior

[Julien Vehent <julien@linuxwall.info>]

> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 02:10:02PM -0400, Julien Vehent wrote:
> > I just switched from outlook's "managed" tasks (pretty much only
> > flagging emails) to taskwarrior. I like the capabilities of the
> > tool, but I didn't find a proper way to put an estimate on a task.
> >
> > As is, there no difference between "create email account for bob"
> > and "migrate the oracle server to a new hardware", but in reality,
> > the second one takes 100 times longer. How can I reflect that in
> > taskwarrior ?
> >
> >
> > Julien

On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:21:01 -0400, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> I found some discussion about that in the forums at
>
> http://taskwarrior.org/boards/8/topics/938
>
> but it looks like it was never implemented because they thought it be
> too difficult to manage all that from the command line.  I can think
> of a few kludgey ways to do that with the current interface, for
> example using tags or annotations.


I just tried the tag thing, adding a tag with the estimate duration. 
it's not bad at all and gives a quick overview of the time needed to 
complete.

Now, the killer feature, would be to compare actual realization time 
with the estimate. But I suppose it's difficult to dedicate 4h on a task 
without being preempted, so it would probably not give accurate results.



taskwarrior is definetely nice. I love having the flexibility of the 
command line ! With a (very) quick and (very) dirty script in my 
personal crontab, I get a task list every morning:

14 00  * * * echo -e "OVERDUE\n\n" > /tmp/jvetasklist ; task long 
overdue >> /tmp/jvetasklist ; echo -e "\nTODAY\n\n" >> /tmp/jvetasklist 
; task minimal due:today >> /tmp/jvetasklist ; echo -e "\nHIGH 
PRIORITY\n"  >> /tmp/jvetasklist ; task minimal priority:H >> 
/tmp/jvetasklist ; cat /tmp/jvetasklist|mail -s "$(date +%Y%m%d) Task 
List" jvehent



Julien

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