so, hm. I learned moar about #TasksDotOrg and now am adjusting how I use it to keep myself less off-track (wording carefully chosen) than without it.
long story short I'm adding more minor tasks because I need to build the habit of checking my lists multiple times a day. right now I'm doing okay at *adding* needful tasks, but I've only gotten myself to check the lists 1x most days, while waking up, before I'm in Doing Mode. so they aren't very effective.
so, I spent another fruitful hour and a half or so poking at #TasksDotOrg today, initially just to garden my various todo lists, but then I noticed some unexpected behavior with the first Filter I'd created, and dug into it in order to make it work how I originally intended.
long story short: I succeeded, and now I have a couple Filters working perfectly (I think) which I'd very much needed: an all personal tasks filter, and an all tech-work tasks filter.
#TasksOrg is incredibly powerful software, but it's not 100% obvious how to use it to scratch your particular itch, and it probably won't ever be unless some deep work is done on presets at some point in the future. I'm not complaining that this hasn't been done, the developer has his work cut out for him just debugging & maintaining the software as-is ... and even so, he's now building a desktop app!
anyway, I absolutely *must* do a video on how I'm using the software, because I think it'll help a lot of people get started with one of the few comprehensive #CalDAV tasks solutions available for Android, and soon for desktop.
had a task in Tasks.org to make a Tasks.org feature request for a combined list view, but when I went searching for pre-existing tickets, I learned that Filters accomplish this. so yay for that.
I really need to make a #TasksDotOrg video at some point, especially now that the dude is working on it full time and is building a desktop app. #TasksOrg
the #TasksDotOrg dev shipped a feature I had on my list to request: per-list sorting.
this will allow me to use #TasksOrg as a routine checklist (sorted in arbitrary order) as well as a to-do list (sorted by due date).
so right now the tentative plan is:
Android: get set up and start submitting pull requests to Fedilab, which I've been using since 2017 and which has extremely high inherent stickiness for me, and plenty of itches I want to scratch
Web: start building Tasks support (aimed at #TasksDotOrg compatibility) for AgenDAV which is a standalone CalDAV calendar front end. this one may be more than I can handle but there's only one way to find out.
I'm increasingly thinking that my comment here on this absolute monster of a #TasksDotOrg issue might be a viable way for me to get back into coding, if only bc I've written so much PHP in my past life that it's gotten to be like riding a bike:
https://github.com/tasks/tasks/issues/1256#issuecomment-3550856765
tl;dr #TasksOrg is *the* full-featured Android CalDAV tasks solution, every competitor is missing something, but #tasks_org is missing a web front end, and no existing #CalDAV web front ends fully support its features.
I'm deep into a bug scrub on the #TasksDotOrg github because I've gone all-in on using it for to-do list management, and having been around this mulberry bush several times now on Android, just let me say:
* holy fuck, building a to-do list app (which can use CalDAV as a back-end no less) is REALLY COMPLICATED
* Google Calendar Reminders must have been specced by an industrial design genius with a budget, because the UX was fucking *perfect* for me in 2018, but then I de-Googled 💀
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