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I have written custom vim functions to take lines in a file starting with 'task:' and to pass the rest of the line to task, returning the task ID and pasting it into the file (task (). I love features like repeating events, relative dates and so on, allowing me to run task add recur:weekly due:friday+17hours wait:due-2hours fill out timesheet to create a weekly task to do my timesheet, but to not prompt me to do anything until Friday 3pm. You have to stick with it and maintain your tasks every day otherwise inconsistencies will snowball and you'll find yourself abandoning it altogether. Just like any task management application, it's only as good as the user's own work ethic. It is very feature rich and learning the full extent of possibilities of TaskWarrior will take some time.

It is fast, lightweight, relies only on open source tools, and is vastly extensible. Aidan Wilson's Experience TaskWarrior is right up my alley in terms of unix CLI tools for productivity.
