ticket by wedow
Ranked 11 of 14 task managers by recommenders
Small plain-text command-line task tracker that stays out of your way. One critic notes it relies on AWK and jq, not pure Bash.
Small plain-text command-line task tracker that stays out of your way. One critic notes it relies on AWK and jq, not pure Bash.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 86%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 6 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Minimal, simple, human-readable, stays out of way
“It's just a small plumbing utility that gets out of your way so you can get to work.”
Comment from 4 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: I replaced beads with a faster, simpler Markdown-based task tracker” “Minimalist alternative with no hooks or dependencies for the curious”
Comment from 25 Mar 2026 in “Thoughts on Slowing the Fuck Down” “It's human-readable, simple, and easy to work with.”
Comment from 25 Sep 2026 in “Git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in Git” - Comment from 16 May 2026 in “Δ-Mem: Efficient Online Memory for Large Language Models”
Widely liked by users
“I shared mine [0] a couple weeks ago and quite a few folks have been happy with the change.”
Comment from 19 Jan 2026 in “Gas Town Decoded” “I'm considering `ticket` to be a smash hit at this point”
Comment from 11 Feb 2026 in “Ex-GitHub CEO Launches a New Developer Platform for AI Agents”
Other task managers people recommend
The four most recommended other task managers, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beads by Steve Yegge | 79 | 55 | 59% | 11 | 3 mo4 owners | — |
| Apple Reminders | 15 | 16 | 48% | 11 | — | — |
| Paca | 14 | 2 | 88% | 2 | — | — |
| Todoist | 13 | 7 | 65% | 7 | — | — |
| ticket by wedowThis page | 6 | 1 | 86% | 6 | — | — |
What people said
9 of the 10 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Yeah, ticket is great! I liked it so much I ended up porting it to Python”
“It's human-readable, simple, and easy to work with.”
“a minimal and sane implementation of the same idea”
“Even simpler: wedow/ticket with in-repo tracking of tasks.”
“Minimalist alternative with no hooks or dependencies for the curious”
“I'm considering `ticket` to be a smash hit at this point”
“I shared mine [0] a couple weeks ago and quite a few folks have been happy with the change.”
“Ticket isn't even pure Bash; it embeds several inline, 100+-line AWK scripts, and a giant jq query (an external tool!)”
“It's just a small plumbing utility that gets out of your way so you can get to work.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.