From a4bbb0ed3a8175f5d291e2a2fc2f165ea86d91d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marty Oehme <contact@martyoeh.me>
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2025 18:41:56 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] task: Add new repository for idea collection

Following this blogpost:
https://eshapard.github.io/code/a-separate-taskwarrior-configuration-for-ideas.html

I think it is a really good idea to try this out.
At first I was collecting ideas in my regular taskwarrior repository --
this was no good as every task list was flooded by somedays and maybes
which would never leave. But I still wanted to have a nice repository to
collect all my ideas in.

So, the second strategy was to have one big (markdown) file which would
simply collect all my ideas. But now I was doubling and tripling them up
because the list was so long, and it was more of a chore to find where
to put everything than just a quick 'idea add'.

This may be the best of both worlds: making use of the nice interface to
a task database using the full strength of taskwarrior querying, without
cluttering up my main task repository.

The workflow is exactly as with regular taskwarrior, only the executable
is not called `task` (or `t` in my case) but `idea`. So you e.g. add an
idea with `idea add`, or query all diy ideas with `idea +diy`.
Just like regular taskwarrior.
---
 office/.config/sh/alias.d/taskwarrior.sh   | 6 ++++++
 office/.config/sh/env.d/taskwarrior-xdg.sh | 7 ++++++-
 office/.config/task/taskrc                 | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/office/.config/sh/alias.d/taskwarrior.sh b/office/.config/sh/alias.d/taskwarrior.sh
index dc70002..8b3a820 100644
--- a/office/.config/sh/alias.d/taskwarrior.sh
+++ b/office/.config/sh/alias.d/taskwarrior.sh
@@ -39,3 +39,9 @@ alias tad="task +ACTIVE done"
 alias tas="task +ACTIVE stop"
 
 alias to="task note"
+
+#---
+
+idea() {
+    task rc.data.location="$TASK_DATA_IDEA" "$@"
+}
diff --git a/office/.config/sh/env.d/taskwarrior-xdg.sh b/office/.config/sh/env.d/taskwarrior-xdg.sh
index 1d75474..ef26b7a 100644
--- a/office/.config/sh/env.d/taskwarrior-xdg.sh
+++ b/office/.config/sh/env.d/taskwarrior-xdg.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env sh
 
-[ -d "$XDG_DATA_HOME/task/notes" ] || mkdir -p "$XDG_DATA_HOME/task/notes"
+
+export TASK_DATA_HOME="$XDG_DATA_HOME/task"
+export TASK_DATA_IDEA="$XDG_DATA_HOME/ideas"
+
+[ -d "$TASK_DATA_HOME/notes" ] || mkdir -p "$TASK_DATA_HOME/notes"
+[ -d "$TASK_DATA_IDEA/notes" ] || mkdir -p "$TASK_DATA_IDEA/notes"
diff --git a/office/.config/task/taskrc b/office/.config/task/taskrc
index 8539bd5..d6d8104 100644
--- a/office/.config/task/taskrc
+++ b/office/.config/task/taskrc
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 # Use the command 'task show' to see all defaults and overrides
 
 # Files
-data.location=$XDG_DATA_HOME/task
+data.location=$TASK_DATA_HOME
 
 # disable case sensitivity
 search.case.sensitive=no