Is there a way to specify the order of the tasks in the task panel of the TUI?

[Stan-Stani]

Summary

Alternatively, is there a way to at least set the one that's initially focused?

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[luskin]

This would be a great feature. We have over 30 tasks running and it can be a real pain sometimes to get down to the task you need to inspect.

[anthonyshew]

There is no way to specify an order for the task list. What order would you want to create? Additionally, are you able to guarantee that every developer in the repository would want the same order?

I would ask the same question about the initial focus as well. The task that you may believe to be the most important may not be the one that others in the repo be the most important one, so how can we assign the right initial task universally?

[anthonyshew]

Was thinking about this more. I think there's a way that we could write to disk in .turbo whenever you select a task in the TUI and, the next time you open the TUI, we would know to open on that task. So, if you close the TUI with web#dev as your last selected task, it would open again with web#dev selected from the start.

[traviswimer]

I would definitely prefer that solution over something like a CLI flag, since it "just works" rather than being some config you need to remember and be aware of.

Also I think a really simple improvement that could be made for the ordering of tasks would be to sort the tasks alphabetically by default. Currently, you have no way of knowing what order your tasks will be in. I think ensuring the order is at least consistent on every run would make a big difference.

[luskin]

@anthonyshew That's the exact use-case that would satisfy our needs. Right now all the engineers have to key down until they reach our nextjs web task, which sometimes can be 20+ clicks!