I’ve been using a vim + vimwiki + taskwiki + taskwarrior + timewarrior setup for a while. It works really well!
(One day I will try org-mode. Not today though)
One of the bits that got a good impression is the diary template.
Basically it contains:
- A header
- The list of tasks that haven’t been completed
- The list of tasks completed on that day
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| #!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail
project=$1
date=$(date +'%A, %B %d, %Y')
dateUTC=$(date -u +"%Y-%m-%d")
tomorrowUTC=$(date --date=tomorrow +"%Y-%m-%d")
cat <<EOF
# $date
# Tasks
## Outstanding tasks | status:pending and project:$project and entry.before:$tomorrowUTC
## Finished today | status:completed and project:$project and end.after:$dateUTC and end.before:$tomorrowUTC
EOF
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Some explanations/disclosures:
- It’s invoked with
./diary-template.sh myproject (see below). I reuse this same template for 2 taskwarrior projects:
work and life (everything else). entry.before upon saving back old entries, don’t want to update with new data- pretty sure that
date syntax only works with GNU date
Then in the vim config:
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| au BufNewFile ~/projects/vimwiki/life/diary/*.md :silent 0r !~/projects/vimwiki/templates/task.sh 'life'
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When a new buffer is created in projects/vimwiki/life/diary/*.md, we run that script file and use its contents as the template.
Which gives something like this (example from work):
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| # Friday, October 01, 2021
# Tasks
## Outstanding tasks | status:pending and project:work and entry.before:2021-10-02
## Finished today | status:completed and project:work and end.after:2021-10-01 and end.before:2021-10-02
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Which taskwiki will dynamically render into
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| # Friday, October 01, 2021
# Tasks
## Outstanding tasks | status:pending and project:work and entry.before:2021-10-02
* [ ] add docs for feature XXX #26bf1a75
* [ ] setup pipeline for project #ff6e9878
## Finished today | status:completed and project:work and end.after:2021-10-01 and end.before:2021-10-02
* [X] loosen linting rules for golang #3719f8e2
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If you are interested in creating vimwiki pages for each task, check out my poorly made fork github.com/eh-am/taskwiki