Remind Urgent Tasks

… with desktop notifications from Taskwarrior

Script it

• send only tasks with high priority list as desktop notification

task_notify_send.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="unix:path=/run/user/$EUID/bus"
notify-send -u critical  "$(for ID in $(task _ids priority:V -WAITING -PARENT); do echo [$ID]$(task $ID export | jq -r '.[].description') ; done)"

Schedule it

• schedule task notification as systray message every 20 minutes in Crontab

# crontab -l
/20 * * * * ~/.local/bin/task_notify_send.sh

Sources

• https://www.sudipbhandari.wtf/task-warrior-reminder/
• https://eshapard.github.io/export-taskwarrior-dates-to-remind.html