The biggest difference is that tascli supports records natively - you can use it to just record stuff. This is one of the main reason why I created it - I didn’t just want tasks, but also when I have anything notable to jot down.

Other than that, I try to keep tascli as simple as possible so it can stay small and concise. Putting `tascli list task today` in zshrc is really nice to have a reminder everytime I open a new terminal tab.

Taskwarrior has a phone app on iOS and Android, and can sync with the cli one if you set up a sync server. They also revamped the sync server not long ago to be less janky than the old one.

Has't someone made a simple runtime environment for CLI apps for iOS and Android ? With a file picker GUI and not much else GUI ?

I tried to use task warrior, however, a) I need a way to creat task quickly when I think about them (I guess I am being a bit on the attention deficit spectrum) b) I need a way to integrate a bit with time boxing on my work calendar . The problem is that the task warrior android or mobile eb apps app on mobile are really a bit of a UX nightmare compared to the cli interface. And while the plugin landscape of task warrior is broad, support for typical work settings is not really great out of the box. In the end all 'solutions' only seem to be a road towards meta-procrastination, instead of getting things done...

It does support YYYY/mm/dd which is the international standard.

Curious - in Europe, do you do dd/mm/YYYY or dd.mm.YYYY? The latter should be straightforward to support, but former would conflict with mm/dd/YYYY that's already included.

For recurring tasks, the tool tracks the current interval and don't attempt to verify past intervals. Similar to past due single time tasks, they won't show unless you query specifically.

One of the reason is complexity, the other is that I'd rather have this tool be helpful whenever invoked, vs. forcing users to remember to update yet another tool.

if you're ultra paranoid and want a private OS to read / write - tails and set up a home directory on a thumbdrive

This argument also seems to apply to every other form of data about yourself. Once someone has access to your computer, I think the battle of preventing them from finding out about you is kinda over?

It is local, the program use a sqlite db locally and does not talk to internet whatsoever.

In that it's not necessarily different than writing your todolist on a notebook - someone other than you could have got hold of that and read it - say if it's on a shared shelve.