tasks.org appreciation thread
tasks.org appreciation thread
I just spent half an hour going through all of the app's settings and I'm in awe from the amount of work that went into it. Some of the things that made me realize the author put their heart and soul into it:
- Custom filters; pages that show tasks satisfying a certain criteria, e.g. due date is up until tomorrow
- Notification sound can be played repeatedly 5 times to catch your attention
- Random reminders in case you're procrastinating
- Optionally ignore fields you don't use in the task editing screen. I hid reminders (because the defaults are good enough), tags, location, priority. I appreciate it so much.
- The fucking widget is customizable to death, you can hide the check boxes, hide the dividing lines between tasks, change the font size.
It's perfect, it's obviously on F-Droid, and it obviously syncs with Nextcloud. The widget thing was what made me write this post. They really went out of their way to make the app satisfy everyone.
Thanks for listening
Location based reminders!!!
I couldn't think of proper usages of it 🤑 Any suggestions?
I use it for like "remind me to pick up my prescription when I'm near CVS"
Tasks is literally one of the best and most polished apps I have ever seen. I have it on my phone and it syncs with my CalDAV server really well. I should definitely use it more.
Yeah i just love this app. Syncs with my Nextcloud tasks and i use it for grocery shopping etc.
Works perfect.
i want to start using it, but are there clients for macos and linux for it as well?
Provided you're using a caldav server (I use one from my email provider) any client that has full CalDAV support will work. Thunderbird comes to mind.
Sadly me and my GF switched away from it, due to the weird handling of subtasks, their order and constant shuffle of them, when expanded and not expanded.
That's right, I found them weird as well. I remember having the hierarchy info lost when viewed in Nextcloud, i.e. all tasks were at the same level with none of the nesting shown in the mobile app. In my case I wasn't using subtasks properly but rather used them as lists, so I just moved them to CalDAV lists 👹
The ability to hide fields is such a nice feature.
I had tasks.org a few years back, but didn't appreciate all it's functionality. Just got back in to this app today and it truly is amazing. I usually assume I'm going to have a bit of compromise in an app that has a solo developer, but this really hits all the right notes for me. I'll definitely be sending this guy a donation, he's making life easier for a lot of people.