Task Tracker

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Personal task management with daily standups and weekly reviews

[Homepage](https://github.com/kesslerio/task-tracker-clawdbot-skill) • [Trigger Patterns](#what-this-skill-does) • [Commands](#commands-reference)

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Task Tracker

A personal task management skill for daily standups and weekly reviews. Tracks work tasks, surfaces priorities, and manages blockers.

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What This Skill Does

1. Lists tasks - Shows what's on your plate, filtered by priority, status, or deadline

2. Daily standup - Shows today's #1 priority, blockers, and what was completed

3. Weekly review - Summarizes last week, archives done items, plans this week

4. Add tasks - Create new tasks with priority and due date

5. Complete tasks - Mark tasks as done

6. Extract from notes - Pull action items from meeting notes

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File Structure

~/clawd/memory/work/
├── TASKS.md              # Active tasks (source of truth)
├── ARCHIVE-2026-Q1.md    # Completed tasks by quarter
└── WORKFLOW.md           # Workflow documentation

TASKS.md format:

Work Tasks

🔴 High Priority (This Week)
-[ ] Set up Apollo.io — Access for Lilla
  - Due: ASAP
  - Blocks: Lilla (podcast outreach)

🟡 Medium Priority (This Week)
-[ ] Review newsletter concept — Figma design
  - Due: Before Feb 1

✅ Done
-[x] Set up team calendar — Shared Google Calendar

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Quick Start

View Your Tasks

python3 ~/clawd/skills/task-tracker/scripts/tasks.py list

Daily Standup

python3 ~/clawd/skills/task-tracker/scripts/standup.py

Weekly Review

python3 ~/clawd/skills/task-tracker/scripts/weekly_review.py

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Commands Reference

List Tasks

All tasks
tasks.py list

Only high priority
tasks.py list --priority high

Only blocked
tasks.py list --status blocked

Due today or this week
tasks.py list --due today
tasks.py list --due this-week

Add Task

Simple
tasks.py add "Draft project proposal"

With details
tasks.py add "Draft project proposal" \
  --priority high \
  --due "Before Mar 15" \
  --blocks "Sarah (client review)"

Complete Task

tasks.py done "proposal"  # Fuzzy match - finds "Draft project proposal"

Show Blockers

tasks.py blockers              # All blocking tasks
tasks.py blockers --person sarah  # Only blocking Sarah

Extract from Meeting Notes

extract_tasks.py --from-text "Meeting: discuss Q1 planning, Sarah to own budget review"
Outputs: tasks.py add "Discuss Q1 planning" --priority medium
         tasks.py add "Sarah to own budget review" --owner sarah

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Priority Levels

| Icon | Meaning | When to Use |

|------|---------|-------------|

| 🔴 High | Critical, blocking, deadline-driven | Revenue impact, blocking others |

| 🟡 Medium | Important but not urgent | Reviews, feedback, planning |

| 🟢 Low | Monitoring, delegated | Waiting on others, backlog |

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Status Workflow

Todo → In Progress → Done
      ↳ Blocked (waiting on external)
      ↳ Waiting (delegated, monitoring)

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Automation (Cron)

| Job | When | What |

|-----|------|------|

| Daily Standup | Weekdays 8:30 AM | Posts to Telegram Journaling group |

| Weekly Review | Mondays 9:00 AM | Posts summary, archives done items |

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Natural Language Triggers

| You Say | Skill Does |

|---------|-----------|

| "daily standup" | Runs standup.py, posts to Journaling |

| "weekly review" | Runs weekly_review.py, posts summary |

| "what's on my plate?" | Lists all tasks |

| "what's blocking Lilla?" | Shows tasks blocking Lilla |

| "mark IMCAS done" | Completes matching task |

| "what's due this week?" | Lists tasks due this week |

| "add task: X" | Adds task X to TASKS.md |

| "extract tasks from: [notes]" | Parses notes, outputs add commands |

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Examples

Morning check-in:

$ python3 scripts/standup.py

📋 Daily Standup — Tuesday, January 21

🎯 #1 Priority: Complete project proposal draft
   ↳ Blocking: Sarah (client review)

⏰ Due Today:
  • Complete project proposal draft
  • Schedule team sync

🔴 High Priority:
  • Review Q1 budget (due: Before Mar 15)
  • Draft blog post (due: ASAP)

✅ Recently Completed:
  • Set up shared calendar
  • Update team documentation

Adding a task:

$ python3 scripts/tasks.py add "Draft blog post" --priority high --due ASAP

✅ Added task: Draft blog post

Extracting from meeting notes:

$ python3 scripts/extract_tasks.py --from-text "Meeting: Sarah needs budget review, create project timeline"

Extracted 2 task(s) from meeting notes
Run these commands to add them:

tasks.py add "Budget review for Sarah" --priority high
tasks.py add "Create project timeline" --priority medium

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Integration Points

• -Telegram Journaling group: Standup/review summaries posted automatically
• -Obsidian: Daily standups logged to 01-Daily/YYYY-MM-DD.md
• -MEMORY.md: Patterns and recurring blockers promoted during weekly reviews
• -Cron: Automated standups and reviews

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Troubleshooting

"Tasks file not found"

Create from template
python3 scripts/init.py

Tasks not showing up

• -Check TASKS.md exists at ~/clawd/memory/work/TASKS.md
• -Verify task format (checkboxes - [ ], headers ## 🔴)
• -Run tasks.py list to debug

Date parsing issues

• -Due dates support: ASAP, YYYY-MM-DD, Before Mar 15, Before product launch
• -check_due_date() handles common formats

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Files

| File | Purpose |

|------|---------|

| scripts/tasks.py | Main CLI - list, add, done, blockers, archive |

| scripts/standup.py | Daily standup generator |

| scripts/weekly_review.py | Weekly review generator |

| scripts/extract_tasks.py | Extract tasks from meeting notes |

| scripts/utils.py | Shared utilities (DRY) |

| scripts/init.py | Initialize new TASKS.md from template |

| references/task-format.md | Task format specification |

| assets/templates/TASKS.md | Template for new task files |