diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index dd1ee8e..c85a573 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -344,6 +344,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "percent-encoding",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "futf"
+version = "0.1.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "df420e2e84819663797d1ec6544b13c5be84629e7bb00dc960d6917db2987843"
+dependencies = [
+ "mac",
+ "new_debug_unreachable",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "futures-channel"
 version = "0.3.30"
@@ -442,6 +452,33 @@ version = "0.3.9"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "d231dfb89cfffdbc30e7fc41579ed6066ad03abda9e567ccafae602b97ec5024"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "html2text"
+version = "0.12.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "8c66ee488a63a92237d5b48875b7e05bb293be8fb2894641c8118b60c08ab5ef"
+dependencies = [
+ "html5ever",
+ "markup5ever",
+ "tendril",
+ "thiserror",
+ "unicode-width",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "html5ever"
+version = "0.27.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "c13771afe0e6e846f1e67d038d4cb29998a6779f93c809212e4e9c32efd244d4"
+dependencies = [
+ "log",
+ "mac",
+ "markup5ever",
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "http"
 version = "1.1.0"
@@ -646,6 +683,26 @@ version = "0.4.21"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "90ed8c1e510134f979dbc4f070f87d4313098b704861a105fe34231c70a3901c"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "mac"
+version = "0.1.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "c41e0c4fef86961ac6d6f8a82609f55f31b05e4fce149ac5710e439df7619ba4"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "markup5ever"
+version = "0.12.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "16ce3abbeba692c8b8441d036ef91aea6df8da2c6b6e21c7e14d3c18e526be45"
+dependencies = [
+ "log",
+ "phf",
+ "phf_codegen",
+ "string_cache",
+ "string_cache_codegen",
+ "tendril",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "memchr"
 version = "2.7.2"
@@ -716,6 +773,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "tempfile",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "new_debug_unreachable"
+version = "1.0.6"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "650eef8c711430f1a879fdd01d4745a7deea475becfb90269c06775983bbf086"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "num-traits"
 version = "0.2.19"
@@ -829,6 +892,63 @@ version = "2.3.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "e3148f5046208a5d56bcfc03053e3ca6334e51da8dfb19b6cdc8b306fae3283e"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "phf"
+version = "0.11.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ade2d8b8f33c7333b51bcf0428d37e217e9f32192ae4772156f65063b8ce03dc"
+dependencies = [
+ "phf_shared 0.11.2",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "phf_codegen"
+version = "0.11.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e8d39688d359e6b34654d328e262234662d16cc0f60ec8dcbe5e718709342a5a"
+dependencies = [
+ "phf_generator 0.11.2",
+ "phf_shared 0.11.2",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "phf_generator"
+version = "0.10.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "5d5285893bb5eb82e6aaf5d59ee909a06a16737a8970984dd7746ba9283498d6"
+dependencies = [
+ "phf_shared 0.10.0",
+ "rand",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "phf_generator"
+version = "0.11.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "48e4cc64c2ad9ebe670cb8fd69dd50ae301650392e81c05f9bfcb2d5bdbc24b0"
+dependencies = [
+ "phf_shared 0.11.2",
+ "rand",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "phf_shared"
+version = "0.10.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b6796ad771acdc0123d2a88dc428b5e38ef24456743ddb1744ed628f9815c096"
+dependencies = [
+ "siphasher",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "phf_shared"
+version = "0.11.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "90fcb95eef784c2ac79119d1dd819e162b5da872ce6f3c3abe1e8ca1c082f72b"
+dependencies = [
+ "siphasher",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "pin-project"
 version = "1.1.5"
@@ -867,6 +987,18 @@ version = "0.3.30"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "d231b230927b5e4ad203db57bbcbee2802f6bce620b1e4a9024a07d94e2907ec"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "ppv-lite86"
+version = "0.2.17"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "5b40af805b3121feab8a3c29f04d8ad262fa8e0561883e7653e024ae4479e6de"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "precomputed-hash"
+version = "0.1.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "925383efa346730478fb4838dbe9137d2a47675ad789c546d150a6e1dd4ab31c"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "proc-macro2"
 version = "1.0.85"
@@ -900,6 +1032,36 @@ dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "rand"
+version = "0.8.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "34af8d1a0e25924bc5b7c43c079c942339d8f0a8b57c39049bef581b46327404"
+dependencies = [
+ "libc",
+ "rand_chacha",
+ "rand_core",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "rand_chacha"
+version = "0.3.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e6c10a63a0fa32252be49d21e7709d4d4baf8d231c2dbce1eaa8141b9b127d88"
+dependencies = [
+ "ppv-lite86",
+ "rand_core",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "rand_core"
+version = "0.6.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ec0be4795e2f6a28069bec0b5ff3e2ac9bafc99e6a9a7dc3547996c5c816922c"
+dependencies = [
+ "getrandom",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "raw-cpuid"
 version = "11.0.2"
@@ -1148,6 +1310,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "libc",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "siphasher"
+version = "0.3.11"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "38b58827f4464d87d377d175e90bf58eb00fd8716ff0a62f80356b5e61555d0d"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "slab"
 version = "0.4.9"
@@ -1173,6 +1341,32 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys 0.52.0",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "string_cache"
+version = "0.8.7"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "f91138e76242f575eb1d3b38b4f1362f10d3a43f47d182a5b359af488a02293b"
+dependencies = [
+ "new_debug_unreachable",
+ "once_cell",
+ "parking_lot",
+ "phf_shared 0.10.0",
+ "precomputed-hash",
+ "serde",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "string_cache_codegen"
+version = "0.5.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "6bb30289b722be4ff74a408c3cc27edeaad656e06cb1fe8fa9231fa59c728988"
+dependencies = [
+ "phf_generator 0.10.0",
+ "phf_shared 0.10.0",
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "strsim"
 version = "0.11.1"
@@ -1235,6 +1429,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys 0.52.0",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tendril"
+version = "0.4.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d24a120c5fc464a3458240ee02c299ebcb9d67b5249c8848b09d639dca8d7bb0"
+dependencies = [
+ "futf",
+ "mac",
+ "utf-8",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "thiserror"
 version = "1.0.61"
@@ -1422,6 +1627,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "tinyvec",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "unicode-width"
+version = "0.1.13"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "0336d538f7abc86d282a4189614dfaa90810dfc2c6f6427eaf88e16311dd225d"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "url"
 version = "2.5.0"
@@ -1433,6 +1644,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "percent-encoding",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "utf-8"
+version = "0.7.6"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "09cc8ee72d2a9becf2f2febe0205bbed8fc6615b7cb429ad062dc7b7ddd036a9"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "utf8parse"
 version = "0.2.1"
@@ -1462,6 +1679,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "clap",
  "crossterm",
  "dirs",
+ "html2text",
  "moka",
  "reqwest",
  "serde",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 542a1d6..f825df1 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ chrono = "0.4.38"
 clap = { version = "4.5.4", features = ["cargo"] }
 crossterm = "0.27.0"
 dirs = "5.0.1"
+html2text = "0.12.5"
 moka = { version = "0.12.7", features = ["sync"] }
 reqwest = { version = "0.12.4", features = ["blocking", "json"] }
 serde = { version = "1.0.203", features = ["derive"] }
diff --git a/src/ui/mod.rs b/src/ui/mod.rs
index 3e42ba8..2d1f923 100644
--- a/src/ui/mod.rs
+++ b/src/ui/mod.rs
@@ -11,6 +11,12 @@ use crate::api::{Label, VikunjaAPI};
 pub mod project;
 pub mod task;
 
+fn format_html_to_terminal(html: &str) -> String {
+    let width = crossterm::terminal::size().unwrap().0 as usize;
+    let cursor = std::io::Cursor::new(html);
+    html2text::from_read(cursor, width)
+}
+
 /// Print `txt` with a custom `color`
 pub fn print_color(color: Color, txt: &str) {
     stdout().execute(SetForegroundColor(color)).unwrap();
diff --git a/src/ui/task.rs b/src/ui/task.rs
index 4b2a44f..105f0e1 100644
--- a/src/ui/task.rs
+++ b/src/ui/task.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 use crate::{
     api::{Project, ProjectID, Task, VikunjaAPI},
-    ui::{hex_to_color, is_in_past, parse_datetime, print_color, print_label, time_relative},
+    ui::{
+        format_html_to_terminal, hex_to_color, is_in_past, parse_datetime, print_color,
+        print_label, time_relative,
+    },
 };
 
 // todo : move to grid view
@@ -147,7 +150,7 @@ pub fn print_task_info(task_id: isize, api: &VikunjaAPI) {
     }
 
     if task.description != "<p></p>" && !task.description.is_empty() {
-        println!("---\n{}", task.description);
+        println!("---\n{}", format_html_to_terminal(&task.description));
     }
 
     if let Some(assigned) = task.assignees {