Types

Habit

A task with Habit has a recurrence setting and must have STATE set to Time. This type of task means that it is a habit, something that you must do every day (either automatically or consciously) and that can be counted.

Objective

An Objective task is basically a goal. This type of task is ideal for deadlines longer than 1 day and is generally not completed in less than that same time. This type is also the only one that can store a MOTHER attribute.

Eventual

A task with Eventual type means that it will be done on the same day that it was entered. That type of task is reserved to tasks you didn’t know you needed to do. Useful to unplanned meetings, quick tasks, etc.

Continuous

A task that has its TYPE set to Continuous will never be completed. Continuous tasks need to be… Continuous. This type of task serves as a counter, a good use case is to create a task like “Minecraft” to know how long you have played in total.

You can also use taconls to see all continuous tasks.

Event

That type of task is useful to schedule commemorative dates or automatic payments. A task with Event type must accompany a WT set to AllDay, otherwise it can simply be a Check task. This type of task need a day to be completed, and the time that will be setted is always “23:59:59” in the day that was defined.

Check

Unlike the Habit type, this type does not come with a STATE defined as Time, but rather defined as Info. This has the same logic as Habit, but it is not possible to start this type of task. Useful for statistical tasks like “Sleep on time”, “2000 calories”, etc.