How to install Taskwarrior on Windows 11

Taskwarrior is a powerful task management tool that can help you stay on top of all your tasks and projects. In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install Taskwarrior on your Windows 11 computer.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, make sure you have the following prerequisites:

• A Windows 11 computer
• An internet connection
• PowerShell installed on your system

Steps

1. Open PowerShell on your Windows 11 system. You can do this by searching for "PowerShell" in the Start menu or by pressing Win + X and selecting "Windows PowerShell".
2. Once PowerShell is open, run the following command to install Chocolatey, a package manager for Windows:

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

3. Once Chocolatey is installed, run the following command to install Taskwarrior:

choco install task

4. Wait for the installation to complete. Once the installation is complete, you can start using Taskwarrior.

Verifying the Installation

To verify that Taskwarrior was installed correctly, open PowerShell and run the following command:

task --version

This should return the version of Taskwarrior installed on your system.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we covered the steps required to install Taskwarrior on a Windows 11 system using Chocolatey. With Taskwarrior, you can easily manage your tasks and projects from the command line.

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