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📣 Malaclypst

Looking for the good project/todo management software, even obscure ones


I like the databaseless idea of todo.txt but it's very complicated to manage projects with complex tasks. Only easy todos like "walk with a dog" or "read a book". I like taskwarrior and dstask as proof of concept, but come on, to add a task with needed tags and parent I need to write literally five times as much as task is. I don't have such a good memory to remember all the tags and flags that are out there. I like Org-Mode, but I'm Vim user (un)fortunately.

So please, post here task/project/todo management software that you found really nice and useful. That have tags, maybe trees, maybe something else. CLI, TUI or GUI.

  👤 fsiefken Accepted Answer ✓
if you use spacemacs you can use orgmode with easier keybindings and vim mode. https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/bkfare/org_mode_with...

I like taskwarrior with karmawarrior (gamify tasks) because it's more like chatops, perhaps you can create a bashscript that adds he taggs automatically?

I love tiddlywiki with markdown plugin, there are also a few task manager addons. Lately I've been eyeing obsidian which is a gui on top of a directory of markdown files. There is talk about using taskmanagement flows with obsidian (so making it a bit simpler then org-mode), there are various solutions and add-ons and supposedly first class support for tasks in Obsidian 0.12 although I haven't found it yet.

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/how-do-you-handle-tasks-in-obsid... https://forum.obsidian.md/t/making-tasks-todos-a-first-class... https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-tasks-available/16410/3...

Or just using my s-pen/s21 to scribble a short todo list in my own handwriting, or just use paper

👤 dschuessler
I haven't used it myself but there are projects out there that try to emulate Org-Mode for Vim, e.g. https://github.com/jceb/vim-orgmode.