DailyTasks project is a program for reminding you of daily tasks.
I, basically, created DailyTasks to fulfill a need of my own. I am much too disorganized to use "standard" task managemenet programs: every time I tried, I seemed to spend more time setting up and updating tasks than I actually spent doing the tasks themselves... On the other hand, a simple way of reminding me of them would be useful.
Also, most tasks seem to be of the repeating kind. That is, it's something you have to do every day. What I needed, then, was a way to remind me -- or simply to show me -- that, today, I still had this, that and that to do.
I looked around for some already existing software to do exactly this... and found only one: frequent-task-reminder. It's based on the concept of "work units"; that is, after you set up a task, it increases by one remaining work unit each day. It was mostly what I wanted, but, after trying it out, I quickly found that there were a couple of features I wanted it to have, and it didn't. The main one was this: there should be an option to stop increasing the work units above 1. Some tasks simply don't accumulate. Oh, and I wanted a web interface, too.
The web interface, I even ended up writing myself. :) But frequent-task-reminder is written in Python, a language I have about zero experience with. While this would be a good excuse to learn it, :), I decided, instead, to start from scratch, and write DailyTasks, in PHP.
Here are some key features of "DailyTasks":
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