When comparing Geek-life vs Taskwarrior, the Slant community recommends Taskwarrior for most people. In the question“What are the best command line to-do list manager?” Taskwarrior is ranked 1st while Geek-life is ranked 5th. The most important reason people chose Taskwarrior is:
The command line interface puts powerful filtering expressions, context, annotations, tags, due dates, reoccurrence, and user-defined-attributes totally in your hands. It’s fast and low friction.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Rich and intuitive Terminal UI
Pro Do things quickly with keyboard shortcuts
Pro Full featured (almost) - Projects, Tasks, due-dates, task notes... everything
Pro Complete Mouse support
Pro Organise Tasks under Projects - similar to Wunderlist, todoist etc.
Pro Command line interface
The command line interface puts powerful filtering expressions, context, annotations, tags, due dates, reoccurrence, and user-defined-attributes totally in your hands. It’s fast and low friction.
Pro Extensible
Taskwarrior has many front-ends, services, extensions, hook scripts, and capsules available. Taskwarrior keeps a list of contributed tools on their site.
Pro Lightweight and fast
Taskwarrior is written in the speedy C++ language.
Pro Tasks stored in plain text files locally
Future-proof and easily integrated with version control system. You never lose access to your data.
Pro Sync across devices
When used in conjunction with the Taskserver, it can sync tasks (conflict-free) across your Taskwarrior devices. This includes integration with Mirakel.
Pro Supported internationally
It has UTF8 support and is translated into many languages.
Pro Customizability
Taskworrior allows you to define custom attributes and reports to your needs.
Pro Self-hosted Taskserver
You can be in full control of your data.
Cons
Con If you don't know what a terminal window is, it's not for you
Con Command line interface
A command line interface is a arguably overly verbose, consequently tedious, way to interact with a To Do list.