taskwarrior_jrnl_hook

Taskwarrior allow annotation of tasks, but I find it less practical than using jrnl to do so. This hook bring together both of this great tools.

• Taskwarrior
• jrnl

This script was inspirated by taskwarrior-time-tracking-hook

Principal

Starting a task will automatically pass its description to jrnl. If started task have tags they will be added into the title with corresponding symbol in jrnl (by default, jrnl tags are mark with "@").

$ task list
ID Tags                                  Due              Description       
 1  administration perso     2018-09-21 Pay electricity bill
$ task 1 start

That action will call the hook and run jrnl as a subprocess.

jrnl "Pay electricity bill @administration @perso"

Now, if you look in your jrnl you should see task description added as title with tags from taskwarrior.

jrnl -1
2018-09-21 9h35 Pay electricity bill @administration @perso

Install

pip install taskwarrior-jrnl-hook

Then add the hook to .task/hook folder

mkdir -p ~/.task/hooks
ln -s ~/.local/bin/taskwarrior_jrnl_hook ~/.task/hooks/on-modify.jrnl

Configuration

By default this hook will look config info in your ~/.taskrc config file. Default options are built in the hook, if you want to change hook behavior put options entry in your taskwarrior config file.

Options :

1. jrnl name
2. jrnl configuration
3. tags
4. project
5. filter

jrnl name

If specify, this hook will use the jrnl name defined in the config, otherwise it will use default as jrnl name.

Personally I write a journal for each month, so I added an option to get month name from started task and use it as jrnl name.

If set to True hook script will call jrnl for the given month. You can specify language in order to get the right spelling for the month. Month is written in all letters with no capital.

jrnl configuration

In order to use correct tags symbol used in your jrnl, the script need to read your jrnl's configuration.

tags

This option allow you to add taskwarrior tags to your jrnl's title.

project

This option add project name under your title in the body.

filter

This option allow you to exclude by tags tasks that you don't want to see in your jrnl.