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Taskpaper index tags1/6/2024 As a result, I’ve been doing almost all of my TaskPaper tracking on the Mac, which isn’t the best way to keep on top of things, especially when I’m traveling.īut with a little bit of work, Drafts 5 can become a great TaskPaper app. Unfortunately, Jesse stopped supporting his iOS TaskPaper app, and I haven’t thought much of replacements like Taskmator. Jesse Grosjean of Hog Bay created the TaskPaper format, and his app is still the best for creating and organizing TaskPaper documents. On the Mac, I use Hog Bay Software’s TaskPaper app. In this way, the documents from the previous months are a record of what I was planning to do and what I finished. At the beginning of every month, I make a new TaskPaper document, filling it with the uncompleted tasks from the previous month. In particular, I have a main to-do list that I adjust every day, adding new projects and tasks as they come in and (I hope) marking older tasks as completed. All of which is input incredibly easily from the command line.Ĭouple that with the review command in tasksh and your golden.Next post Previous post TaskPaper actions for Drafts 5Īs I’ve written before, I use the TaskPaper plain-text format to keep track of my to-do lists. I basically just use it like a toggle switch between none and H), and what other tasks must be completed before this one can. How much info is "complete information"? What project is it in, what contexts (expressed as tags), what due date if any, and what priority (they have none, L, M, or H. So I never need to read more than 5 items deep into my next action list while I'm in doing mode. When I run task on my computer, 50% of the time I find the thing I need to do right now at the top of the list. And their task next report actually does a reasonably good job identifying the most important task right now if you give it complete information about the task. There are definitely things that can be tweaked in taskwarrior, but not nearly as many. So how do I do plain text gtd? Org-mode for reference material, taskwarrior for action items. Because, given how my brain works, if it can be tweaked, it must be. I spent days - literal, consecutive 8 hour workdays - optimizing the display of the things I needed to do. But you can tweak and narrow it, as you can with everything in emacs. The basic org-agenda is an undifferentiated list of all headlines containing an active Todo label. "But doulos!" You cry, "Just use org-agenda to view your next actions!" Which brings me nicely on to. I can keep the notes I need to do the action under the action itself, all right there in one place! But what it evolved into was a pile of huh because I did not have the discipline to be intelligent in distinguishing reference material and next actions. So you can do it, but it didn't work for me and here's why (and what did work).īlends reference material and action items. Oh, org-mode totally has an insane set of highly tailored features around task management that let you track all kinds of things with all kinds of different levels of granularity. Emacs org-mode is hands down the best plain text reference material system in existence, especially if you add deft and org-roam (but don't worry, you can integrate those later when you're comfortable and all your existing notes will go in basically automatically).īut, I found org-mode less helpful as a task management system.
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