Tascli, a command line based (human) task and record manager
Details
- External ID
- 46176533
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Tascli, a command line based (human) task and record manager
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Dec. 6, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 43
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7986641221374046
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
`cargo install tascli`Manages your own task and records in the terminal simply with tascli - tiny, fast and simple.
Enrichment
- Theme
- self-hosted infrastructure and security tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- command line task manager
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A simple CLI tool in Rust for managing personal tasks and text records locally via files or an embedded SQLite database.
Discussion
18 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: TaskWarrior, org-mode (Emacs), vimwiki
Concerns raised: Mobile app UX is poor compared to CLI, Privacy/surveillance concerns with task data, Lack of phone integration limits adoption, Recurring task logic complexity, European date format (dd/mm/yyyy) not supported
Feature requests: Configurable date format support (dd/MM/yyyy, dd.mm.yyyy), Better mobile app experience, Phone integration/sync capability, Distinction between recurring intervals and fixed-date recurrence, Time-boxing/calendar integration
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 16 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #4 of 17 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Looks like the first mover among its competitors.
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- KimoShell · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- Remote Terminal · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.31
- ApolloShell · github · 2026-09-14 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.31
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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