NEW!

• Updated to tailwindcss 4 and using daisyui for UI components.
• Cleaned-up code a bit to make it easier to manage

Please report any bugs, contributions are welcome.

What is this?

A Minimalistic Web UI for Task Warrior focusing on Keyboard navigation.

It's completely local. No intention to have any kind of online interactions. Font in the screenshot is Maple Mono NF

Stack

• Rust [nightly, will fail to build on stable]
• axum
• tera
• TailwindCSS
• daisyUI
• HTMX
• hotkeys
• rollup
• Taskwarrior (obviously :))
• Timewarrior

Still work in progress. But in the current stage it is pretty usable. You can see the list at the bottom, for what I intend to add, and what's been done.

Using Release Binary

Latest release binaries are now available. Check the release tags on the sidebar

Using Docker

Docker image is provided. A lot of thanks go to DCsunset and RustDesk

docker build -t taskwarrior-web-rs . \
&& docker run --init -d -p 3000:3000 \
-v ~/.task/:/app/taskdata/ \
-v ~/.taskrc:/app/.taskrc \
-v ~/.timewarrior/:/app/.timewarrior/ \
--name taskwarrior-web-rs taskwarrior-web-rs

As a service, every push to the main branch of this repository will provide automatic a docker image and can be pulled via

docker pull ghcr.io/tmahmood/taskwarrior-web:main

That should do it.

Volumes

The docker shares following directories as volumes to store data:

Volume path	Purpose
/app/taskdata	Stores task data (mostly taskchampion.sqlite3)
/app/.timewarrior	Stores timewarrior data

It is recommend to specify the corresponding volume in order to persist the data.

Ports

taskwarrior-web is by default internally listening on port 3000:

Port	Protocol	Purpose
3000	tcp	Main webserver to serve the page

Environment variables

In order to configure the environment variables and contexts for timewarrior-web, docker environments can be specified:

Docker environment	Shell environment	Purpose
TASK_WEB_TWK_SERVER_PORT	TWK_SERVER_PORT	Specifies the server port (see "Ports")
TASK_WEB_DISPLAY_TIME_OF_THE_DAY	DISPLAY_TIME_OF_THE_DAY	Displays a time of the day widget in case of value 1
TASK_WEB_TWK_USE_FONT	TWK_USE_FONT	Font to be used. If not, browsers default fonts are used
TASK_WEB_TWK_THEME	TWK_THEME	Defines the theme to be used (see "Themes")

Hooks

NOTE: If you have any hooks (eg. Starting time tracking using time-warrior when we start a task, you'll need to install the required application in in the docker, also the config files)

By default, the timewarrior on-modify hook is installed.

Manual Installation

Requirements

• rust nightly
• npm

Installing rust nightly

Should be installable through rustup https://rustup.rs/

Building and Running

1. Clone the latest version from GitHub.
2. cargo run --release

That should be it! Now you have the server running at localhost:3000 accessible by your browser.

Troubleshooting

if you are receiving the following error in step 5

  thread 'main' panicked at build.rs:7:19:
  called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: Os { code: 2, kind: NotFound, message: "No such file or directory" }
  note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace

It's because, tailwindcss-cli is missing

Customizing

Customizing the port

By default, the program will use 3000 as port, you can customize through .env file or enviornment variable, check env.example

variable name: TWK_SERVER_PORT

Displaying time of the day widget

By default the "time of the day" widget is not visible, to display it put

DISPLAY_TIME_OF_THE_DAY=1

in the .env file

Font customization

Previously the app used Departure Mono as default font, which was also included in the repo. It's now removed. And the font can be set using env variable.

Add the following to change default font:

TWK_USE_FONT='Maple Mono'

Themes

By default, taskwarrior-web provides two themes:

1. taskwarrior-dark (intended for dark mode)
2. taskwarrior-light (intended for light mode)

taskwarrior-web decides automatically based on the operating system and browser preferences whether the light or the dark theme should be shown.

If a specific theme should be set fixed, the theme can be set as following in the environment:

TWK_THEME=taskwarrior-dark (for dark-mode)

Using the app

You can use Mouse or Keyboard to navigate.

• All the keyboard mnemonics are underlined.
• The Cmd Bar needs to be focused (Ctrl + Shift + K) for the keyboard shortcuts to work

Project and Tag selection

Keyboard shortcut is t

For selecting tag, once you enter tag selection mode, the tag bar is visible, tag mnemonics are displayed on the tags, in red boxes, typing the mnemonics will immediately set the tag/project,

Note: selecting the tag/project again will remove the tag from filter.

Creating new task

Keyboard shortcut is n

Which should bring up the new task dialog box. It will use the current tags and project to create the task

Marking task as done or displaying task details

Call up task search: s This should update top bar with the following, and also the task mnemonics are displayed with the id, in red boxes. Typing the mnemonics will immediately mark the task as done, or display the details of the task depending on mnemonics typed

In Task Details window, you can mark task as done[d] and start/stop [s] timer. Also, denotate task using [n] You can use task command to modify the task. You only need to enter the modifications.

Once you start a timer it will be highlighted on the list

Undo

Keyboard shortcut is u

This will bring up undo confirmation dialog

Switch theme

It is possible to switch the theme, which is saved in local storage too.

For this following three symbols are used (left of the command bar):

Symbol	Purpose
⚹	Auto Mode or forced mode from server
☽	Dark mode
🌣	Light mode

WIP warning

This is a work in progress application, many things will not work, there will be errors, as no checks, and there may not be any error messages in case of error.

Planned

• Better configuration
• Usability improvements on a long task list
  • Hiding empty columns
  • Temporary highlight last modified row, if visible
• Make the mnemonics same for tags on refresh
• Modification
  • Deleting
• Following Context
• Error handling
  • Retaining input in case of error
  • Finetune error handling
• Add more tests
• Convert to desktop app using Tauri
• Reporting
  • Project wise progress
  • Burndown reports
• Column customization
• Color customization
• Time warrior integration, and time reporting
• Searching by tag name

Issues

• Not able to select and copy tags, maybe add a copy button
• Keyboard shortcut applied when there is a shortcut key and I use a mnemonic
• When marking task as done stop if active