You can cutĪnd paste, drag and drop, and mark both projects and tasks as done, shown with a Outline hierarchy, so you can nest projects and tasks. Notes, which are everything else (and appear in gray). Start with a dash contexts, which are prefixed with the symbol and There are four types of items: projects, which end with a colon tasks, which The developer lives up to his advertising copy: you just type.Įverything you need to do, you can do with the keyboard. It presents a familiar digital blank sheet,Īs you would see in Microsoft Word or in Apple Pages. Is a good test of their sense of elegance. Whether a person sees the point of an application such as TaskPaper Matter how good, are brute force approaches compared to the elegance of In the context of personal project management, other programs, no Although bruteįorce always will have its uses, few would prefer it given elegance as anĪlternative. I assume anyone reading this publication is familiar with the distinctionīetween brute force and elegance in solving programming problems. To understand TaskPaper on the iPhone requires understanding TaskPaper on the
Out, and it may be that TaskPaper on the iPad turns out to be superlative. Reveals the limits of both the program and the device. But I don’t love TaskPaper on the iPhone.ĭon’t get me wrong. This loosely mimics the way Things and GTD works, but There's More Than One Way To Do It.I love TaskPaper. That way, I can easily move tasks from the NEXT section to TODAY, where they will serve as the most important tasks of the day. Within each file, I have 3 TaskPaper projects: TODAY, NEXT, and SOMEDAY. I used files in TaskPaper to replicate 'Areas of Responsibility' - one file for life, one file for work, etc. On TaskPaper for iOS, Link your Dropbox tasks file/folder Put your tasks file (.taskpaper extension) on Dropbox Use vim-fu to format your tasks according to TaskPaper syntax Grab taskpaper.vim using Vundle (or whatever bundle manager / process you use)Įxport your tasks from Things (you can use the 'Print' feature and copy/paste into Vim)
For those tasks, I settled on using Reminders.app and iCal.app, and so far, the trade off is worth it. The only things missing for me in this setup are repeating and scheduled tasks (servicing car, mowing lawn, etc), which TaskPaper doesn't support.
I've been trying this setup for the last few hours and I really like it. This means that you can manage your tasks using Vim (and taskpaper.vim) on the desktop, and TaskPaper.app on your iOS device, with the exact same database. But recently, a new version was released with Dropbox sync.
I first looked into this option a while back, but dismissed it because TaskPaper for iOS lacked good sync support. TaskPaper uses a plain text format that can be edited with Vim. Now, none of Mac/iOS alternatives appeal to me, except TaskPaper. So I actually tried the Things Cloud Sync beta this morning, and it looks OK, but I'm not entirely happy:ġ- There's no way to export your tasks into the beta version,Ģ- I was holding out hope for an easy and usable way to manage my tasks with Vim on the desktop and a native app on the iPhone.ģ- After keeping us hanging for so long, I'm somewhat disgruntled with Cultured Code. I also don't like some of the usability decisions for the iPhone app. The problem I do have is the absence of cloud sync, which means you can't easily have your tasks on both the desktop and iOS clients. I love the desktop version and have no problems with it.
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