taskwarrior_web

WARNING: THIS CURRENTLY DOES NOT WORK WITH THE RECENTLY RELEASE TASKWARRIOR 3.0! They changed a ton about how syncing works.

Why this repo?

With the demise of Inthe.am later this year and FreeCinc last year, there aren't any web interfaces for taskwarrior left. It turns out that taskserver, as written, doesn't really scale well for multiple users. So I'm going to write this UI for my needs. Feel free to use it if it works for you.

Usage

Need taskwarrior installed
need a file called secrets_config with:

{
  "SECRET_KEY":"some random letters"
}

use create_new_password_hash() function in utility_functions.py

I used the taskd container at https://github.com/ogarcia/docker-taskd which I have forked just in case.

You might set it up like this:

#! /bin/bash

podman run -d \
          --name=taskd \
            -e CERT_BITS=4096 \
              -e CERT_EXPIRATION_DAYS=365 \
                -e CERT_ORGANIZATION="Your Name" \
                  -e CERT_CN=yoururl.com \
                    -e CERT_COUNTRY=US \
                      -e CERT_STATE="YourState" \
                        -e CERT_LOCALITY="YourCity" \
                          -p 53589:53589 \
                            -v taskd:/var/taskd \
                              ghcr.io/connectical/taskd

After that, just use the instructions at https://gothenburgbitfactory.github.io/taskserver-setup/ to get your user created, etc. I ran into an error at first where I had to go into the config file and change the server it was binding to, but then had to change it back to 0.0.0.0 after the certs were correctly created. I also had to change the request.limit to 0 to get my initial sync to work.

Keep going on those setup instructions to set up your local computer to sync. It will generate involve the .pem files.

You can then run this web app in a container like so:

podman run -d \
          --name=taskwarrior_web -e TZ=America/New_York -v ./taskrc:/root/.taskrc:Z \
                            -v taskwarrior_web:/taskwarrior_web -v taskwarrior_web_tasks:/root/.task \
                            -p 8000:8000  djotaku/taskwarrior_web

Go into your taskwarrior_web container (eg podman exec -ti taskwarrior_web /bin/sh) and run task to generate your .taskrc.

You should now be able to log in.

Copy your .pem files from the sync step over to the volume you mounted to /root/.task and run the same steps to setup the taskd. server as before. Run task sync.

To periodically sync the web interface with the server, you might want to set up this cron job whereever your containers are running:

* * * * * podman exec taskwarrior_web /usr/bin/task sync

That will run sync every minute.

About the dependency I'm using

For now I'm using the taskwarrior library developed by CoddingtonBear - the dev of Inthe.am. It can be found at https://github.com/coddingtonbear/python-taskwarrior - the link on pypi is broken. It looks like the pypi.org page points to the wrong repo. CoddingtonBear hasn't worked on it in a year, so it may break with newer versions of taskwarrior. For now I'm just going to go along with it. It looks like it (and also taskw's safe interface) just runs taskwarrior on the commandline and then grabs the output. I do something similar for Snap-in-Time, so if I had to re-implement this in the future, I think I could do it, even if I had to write the library myself.