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Documentation Update
- Added a couple of good questions to the task-faq man page. One is a discussion of the ID number resequencing, which really should have been addressed in this way years ago.
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.B Q: Can I share my tasks between different machines?
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Yes, you can. Most people have success with a DropBox - a free and secure file
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synching tool. Simply configure task to store it's data in a dropbox folder, by
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modifying the:
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data.location=...
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configuration variable. Check out DropBox at http://www.dropbox.com.
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.B Q: The undo.data file gets very large - do I need it?
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The pattern on the left will now be a caseless search term.
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.TP
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.B Q: Why do the task ID numbers change?
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Task does this to always show you the smallest numbers it can. The idea is that
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if your tasks are numbered 1 - 33, for example, those are easy to type in. If
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instead task kept a rolling sequence number, after a while your tasks might be
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numbered 481 - 513, which makes it more likely to enter one incorrectly, because
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there are more digits.
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When you run a report (such as "list"), task assigns the numbers before it
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displays them. Those numbers are good until the next report. For example, you
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can do this:
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$ task list
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$ task do 12
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$ task add Pay the rent
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$ task delete 31
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Those id numbers are good until the next report is run. This is because task
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performs a garbage-collect operation on the pending tasks file when a report is
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run. This keeps the pending tasks file small, and therefore keeps task fast.
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The completed data file is the one that grows unbounded with use, but that one
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isn't accessed as much, so it doesn't matter as much. So in all, the ID number
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resequencing is about efficiency.
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.SH "CREDITS & COPYRIGHTS"
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task was written by P. Beckingham <paul@beckingham.net>.
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