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 Release

Source:

task-1.5.0.tar.gz

New in version 1.5.0 (?)

Removed deprecated TUTORIAL file.
Removed support for the "showage" configuration variable.
"task stop" can remove the start time from a started task.
"task ghistory" now displays a differently aligned graph, allowing easier comparison by month of tasks added versus completed and deleted.
"task version" command now reports unrecognized configuration variables, which may be spelling mistakes or deprecated variables.
"configure --enable-debug" now supported to suppress compiler optimization to allow debugging.

(Find out what was new in prior versions)

Troubleshooting

Task has been built from source and tested in the following environments:

OS X 10.4 Tiger
OS X 10.5 Leopard
Fedora Core 8
Fedora Core 9
Ubuntu 7 Feisty Fawn
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.