(c) 2014 Jens Erat email@jenserat.de, MIT License
This is a small hack providing relative recurring tasks with due date some period after completing the current task. Taskwarrior will not learn such a feature before "the Great Recurrence rewrite", which has already been delayed for many years, so this had to be dealt with.
This hook requires a Task Warrior 2.4.2 build not older than 2015-02-22.
It works with both Python 2 and 3.
Link the python script into ~/.task/hooks, creating this folder if needed. Then add two user defined attributes for recurring tasks:
task config uda.relativeRecurDue.type duration
task config uda.relativeRecurDue.label 'Rel. Rec. Due'
task config uda.relativeRecurWait.type duration
task config uda.relativeRecurWait.label 'Rel. Rec. Wait'
Create a task and set the relativeRecurDue and/or relativeRecurWait attributes. Some examples:
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You shouldn't mow your lawn more than once a week, but want to keep it short, so shouldn't wait for more than two weeks:
task add 'Mow the Lawn' relativeRecurWait:1weeks relativeRecurDue:2weeks -
Ate enough fruit? Eat at least daily, but eating another one straight after won't hurt you:
task add 'Eat a Fruit!' relativeRecurDue:1day -
Is it vacation time yet? Don't go to often, otherwise your taskwarrior log will overfill:
task add 'Go on vacation' relativeRecurWait:2months
After completion of any of them, follow-up tasks will automatically be created.
You can also complete waiting tasks. For example, you could water your plants just before departing in vacation.
For the initial tasks, no due date is automatically set. You might add one manually, or just complete the task anyway (and mark it as done, so the follow-up task with correct wait and/or due dates are set).
Be aware that this only happens when the hook triggers on completion, for example if completing a task on another host (like a phone running Mirakel) will complete without creating the follow-up task nor telling you so. A cleanup-job would be very similar to the script and easy to write, but nobody needed it hard enough yet to code it.