Subtasks in Taskwarrior
This is an extension to Taskwarrior whose objective is to add subtasks to it.
Taskwarrior is a task management tool with a command line interface.
There is an open issue on Taskwarrior asking for subtasks, but as of May 15th 2022 no real progress has been made on that issue.
I'm just a user of taskwarrior and not affiliated with its developers in any way.
Edit: as of 14 April 2023, this project is on hold until I advance my other project, Todowarrior (to sync Taskwarrior and Toodledo).
It's in a very early version. All it can do is to print the subtasks of a
task (command tree), as seen below:
It's not possible to use the command to create subtasks yet, so the link between the parent task and its subtasks was created manually, just for the sake of this test.
Tested with Taskwarrior 2.6.2.
The link between the parent task and its subtasks is made through a User
Defined Attribute (UDA) in
Taskwarrior, named subtasks, with the subtasks UUIDs, as shown below.
task rc:$test_taskrc_file info 3
TASKRC override: /home/cakira/subtask/test/data/.taskrc
Name Value
ID 3
Description Parent task
Status Pending
Entered 2022-05-15 01:44:58 (20h)
Last modified 2022-05-15 02:05:52 (19h)
Virtual tags PENDING READY UDA UNBLOCKED
UUID 3f000090-6e51-4ab2-811e-dadc49e4c68c
Urgency 0
Subtasks 61508f-8d22-498b-90b0-b116a42dfb7a,09a2a6-54d6-48cc-b3ca-54bbea599423
I'm using Grit task manager as inspiration for the commands.
This code is released under the MIT license. Please refer to the LICENSE file for details.
- taskwarrior-subtask-capsule: Since I discovered this project, I did not took time to test it, but it seems functional, since it has 3 contributors and even a pull request. The last update was in 2020.
- tw-subtask-sh: "A taskwarrior script to create, list and invoke subtasks, which are maintained as task annotations." - Its status is pre-alpha and the last update was in 2016.