Taskwarrior

Raised as a usability problem by 14 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2015–2025), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with Taskwarrior, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 14 complaints

Taskwarrior's mobile apps are a UX nightmare compared to the command line2025-12-07
Clicking thumbnail images does not expand them to full size2024-08-27
Screenshot thumbnails cannot be clicked to enlarge2022-05-16
Editing one recurring task instance unexpectedly changes several tasks or creates hundreds of instances2022-05-16
Getting the sync server running is too complex, so the author abandoned it2019-06-06
Android app is laggy and some notifications are missing2018-05-10
App is unresponsive and laggy, and notifications are hard to dismiss2018-05-10
Overridden scroll behavior makes the page hard to use, so the reader gave up2018-05-09
Users get stuck in a confusing UX on what should be a simple site2018-05-09
Last third of article cut off, only visible in reader mode2018-05-09
Page gets stuck on a code block and cannot scroll past it on phone2018-05-09
The Android app's UI is not very good for the commenter2017-04-20
Sync setup failed after install due to missing GnuTLS and dependencies, with no easy fix2017-04-20
Too many options pull the user into organizing tasks instead of completing them2015-12-04