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Created on Sun, May 07 2017 10:00

In this article we will quickly go over the basic usage of Taskwarrior

Adding tasks

Add a task

task add My new task

Add a task with tags and in a Summer project

task add Milk the cow +farm +chore project:Summer

Add a task that is hidden from any report or list for one year from today

task add Weigh yourself wait:1y

Add a task that can be scheduled to start on Wednesday

task add Start Essay schedule:Wednesday

Add a task which is due on Sunday that will wait until Friday to appear in lists and is scheduled to start on Saturday

task add Fix Chair schedule:Saturday wait:Friday due:Sunday

Add a task due someday

task add Skydiving due:someday

Add a weekly recurring task

task add Shave face recur:weekly

Add a high priority task due on April 21 2018

task add Clean Roof pri:H due:2018-04-21

Complete, Delete, Start and Stop Tasks

Start task 1

task 1 start

Stop task 1

task 1 stop

Mark a task 1 as done

task 1 done

Delete task 5

task 5 delete

Viewing Task Reports

View most urgent tasks

task next

View waiting tasks

task waiting

View overdue tasks

task overdue

View active/started tasks

task active

View long tasks list

task long

View tasks in Summer project

task pro:Summer

View tasks tagged with personal and life

task +personal +life

Import and Export tasks

Export task 1

task 1 export

Export task 1 to json file

task 1 export > mytask.json

Export tasks 1 to 11 and 13

task 1-11,13 export

Import json tasks

task import tasks.json

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