TaskWarrior is an open-source, CLI-based task manager built and maintained by the software development team Gothenburg Bit Factory. In early 2025 I decided to shift over to it from OmniFocus, my previous love.

Because TaskWarrior is open-source, it's inherently hackable. Its data exists in a local SQLite database, you can call it from the command line through other scripts, and it even exposes its Document Object Model to allow you to better muck about with the tasks inside of it.

Because TaskWarrior isn't maintained by a company, it hasn't got the strong suite of support tools and frameworks that a similar, commercial task manager might have. There's no official iOS client, no centralised hosted syncing solution, nothing like that.

External links

TaskWarrior official website