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-1.4.3.tar.gz

New in version 1.4.3 (9/18/2008)

Fixed misleading task count at bottom of "info" report.
Added support for a shadow file that contains a plain text task report, with the "shadow.file" and "shadow.command" configuration variables. The shadow file is automatically updated whenever the task database changes. Useful for integrating with "Samurize".

(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.