I’ve been working on a small companion tool for Taskwarrior called jot.
The motivation is simple: Taskwarrior is excellent for tracking tasks, but I often need a better place for the context around those tasks. Things like:
- what happened on this task
- why a decision was made
- what to remember next time
- project-level notes that should not belong to one task only
- recurring-task context when using Taskwarrior-Nautical
jot keeps that context in Markdown files while still letting Taskwarrior remain the source of truth for tasks.
What it supports right now:
- task notes
- project notes
- Nautical chain notes
- quick timestamped entries under note headings
- short task events projected into Taskwarrior annotations
- search across notes and logged events
- a terminal UI with task/project browsing, latest edits, search, and a command palette
- soft delete by moving notes into a local trash folder
The design goal is not to replace Taskwarrior or hide it behind another app. It is meant to sit next to it and handle the note/context layer that Taskwarrior itself does not really try to own.
Repo:
https://github.com/catanadj/taskwarrior-jot
I’m interested in feedback from people who use Taskwarrior seriously, especially around whether the task/project/chain note model makes sense in real workflows.