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Cool: Really interesting command line utility to record what I'm currently doing. I'd love that. task warrior is nice to track my tasks, but to track what I'm doing/what I've done? So far it's not a good match.

Not for me: Uses a format of some application that I've never heard of, on OS X which I don't own.

Since this is the first time I heard about TaskPaper: Are there alternatives for the other two big operating systems (or at least one of them)?

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Taskpaper is as much a plaintext file format as it is a piece of software. As an example, here's a plugin for Sublime that supports it: https://github.com/aziz/PlainTasks - and here are assorted plugins for other editors, as well as other pieces of software: http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/wiki/TaskPaperRelatedProjects

Thanks for pointing me to PlainTasks, I don't really like bloated TODO apps so I'm usually just using a text file, that one's perfect for me.

indeed. +1 for plainTasks. i've been using it for a month now. it's like freeform task tracking with syntax highlighting, magic dates, and automatic formatting. it's exactly what i've been looking for for years now.

'task all' will display all of your tasks with the status (e.g. pending/active/completed).

'task reports' lists a number of all the premade reports that will give you some of the information you are looking for. You can also list reports based on status by doing 'task status:pending'. Please see the docs page (http://taskwarrior.org/docs/tutorials/filter.html) on using filters.

The burndown reports are pretty useful too (they are graphical and can help you visualize that status of a project very easily).

> I'd love that. task warrior is nice to track my tasks, but to track what I'm doing/what I've done? So far it's not a good match.

Try adding annotations to your tasks.

  $ task <id> annotate "text"

This adds a timestamp and a note for that particular task.

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