Five tools.
One command surface.

01 — Why It Exists

Most productivity stacks are five apps that don't know each other.

Task managers don't track time. Time trackers don't do accounting. Journals live in a separate app. Ledgers in another. And none of them understand that you might have three completely different work contexts — client work, personal projects, a side business — that should never touch each other.

Workwarrior doesn't replace these tools. It orchestrates them. Each tool is best-in-class at what it does. Workwarrior adds profile isolation, unified commands, a browser UI, natural language input, and a growing service layer — without any of the tools knowing the others exist.

02 — Profile Isolation

Switch contexts. Not configs.

A profile is a directory. Activating it sets environment variables. Every tool — TaskWarrior, TimeWarrior, JRNL, Hledger — reads those env vars automatically. No symlinks. No config switching. No path hacking. p-work puts you in your work context. p-personal switches you out. Backup is tar. Restore is untar.

Profiles support multiple named journals, multiple named ledgers, and carry their own UDA definitions, urgency tuning, and service configs. Groups let you batch-operate across profiles with a single command.

03 — Natural Language

627 rules before it ever touches an LLM.

The CMD service translates plain English into tool commands. It tries 627 compiled heuristic regex rules first — no network, no latency, no model needed. Only if nothing matches does it fall through to an optional local LLM (ollama) or remote provider.

The heuristic engine is self-improving: every CMD submission is logged, and ww compile-heuristics --digest converts successful AI translations into new rules. Over time, more goes through heuristics. AI dependency decreases.

04 — The Browser UI

Local. No npm. Python 3 stdlib only.

ww browser starts a locally-served web interface on localhost:7777. 15+ panels cover tasks, time, journals, ledgers, a unified command input, AI controls, GitHub sync status, and a weapons bar. Server-Sent Events push profile changes to the browser in real time. Static files served from disk — changes visible on refresh, no restart needed.