Taskwarrior Blog

This is a more or less random entry, in what I hope will be an ongoing, and at least vaguely interesting, series of informal articles (ok, blog entries) recounting my adventures in Free Software development, as a member of the development team at http://taskwarrior.org.

Todays entry is not even specifically about taskwarrior (a.k.a.task) but just what related thing happened today, namely the release announcement of a competitor called "flo" from the "suckless" crowd (they are a branch of unixy nerds who insist that good software must be tiny and sparse-of-features) To me it is interesting, because it re-enforces the idea that such solutions are needed (lightweight task management) it demonstrates some fresh thinking on the subject, and it highlights how advanced task is. (I'm not likely to switch from task)

for your perusal, from the mailing list announcement;

flo - a command line program for organizing events, to-dos, and deadlines

I have been working on a program that makes it easy to keep myself,
and perhaps others, in check. It’s inspired by suckless. I now
consider it stable enough to share it with you.

flo accepts a syntax like “.tag what,from-to”. All fields except what
are optional. The program usually starts between 1 and 3 milliseconds
on my machine once it’s cached by the OS. I’ve tested it with both
Arch Linux and Cygwin.

You should read readme.md. It’s intuitive in the same way that vim is
intuitive … so, you should probably read the documentation. :)

Here it is:

http://github.com/alexanderte/flo

Or if you prefer an almost direct link to a tarball:

http://github.com/alexanderte/flo/tarball/master

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Best regards,

Alexander Teinum