![]() …and the native syncing of TaskPaper files into Scrivener (via ) works effortlessly. Now I’m thinking about being in DropBox and being able to open text files on my iPad in TaskPaper (and or WriteRoom someday), and I have to say, I think my trips down to Poets House will be much more productive, especially since I’m not dragging the old laptop along. I also keep my research lists there, books and article I need to pull when I get to the library, Project = Area of inquiry, Tags = In which facility they are located. It’s wonderful for quotes, or phrases you want to use, just like shuffling around cards in Scrivener (chunkification and de-chunkification ). I’m using TaskPaper (both iPad and Mac) for note collection and arrangement. Of course I’ve had to learn how to get rid of all the indents and such in the core plain text files before printing, but that’s what WordServices is for, right? I’m sure you can take the example and extend it to your writing situation. ![]() Simply managing revisions as sequential “Projects” lets me flip back and forth and see what the heck I was doing four revisions ago. I know that TaskPaper is marketed as being for ‘simple task lists’ but being able to move paragraphs around, hoist sections, tag others, and it’s not that far of a conceptual leap to think of it as a powerful drafting tool. ![]() On the iPad I’m using the TaskPaper “show project” function to work with longer texts, like story drafts, kind of the way I’ve used Scrivener on my iMac or MPB. I’ve clipped my posts on the topic below. So far, I’ve looked at Journler, Jotter and MacJournal so far, but all require me to start a new entry manually.We’ve been having a great conversation over on the Literature & Latte forums about TaskPaper, Scrivener, and note taking on the iPad. Bonus points if it allows tagging of pages to help me find stuff I’ve stored and I’d also like it to store its files in RTF files or similar so that I can take them to Pages with no hassle. I’m now looking for a “diary” type program that will present me with a blank page every day automatically. I’ve since bought the product as to my mind it’s well worth the money. Hog Bay Software is run by Jesse, who is a really nice guy as he even answered my emailed bug report even though I was just a trial user. Niggles, really is the word, isn’t it?! I need to stress the application more so that I can find an important thing to complain about! The context menu contains items that don’t make sense, such as font and colours.In reverse, it would be handy if it would auto-mark-done all child tasks when I mark their parent task as done. If I’ve completed all sub-tasks, it would be nice if it automatically marked the parent task as done too.Dragging and dropping of tasks to reorder isn’t as smooth as it could be as TaskPaper tends to put the task you are moving into the same line as the task you are trying to insert above.Obviously, there are a few niggles! Three that I’ve noticed are: You start it up and you can get going straight away. For instance, you can get it to display all tasks with the tag of to provide a list of items to be done when you next go into town.Īll in all, TaskPaper is very simple and very easy to use. Tags start with a symbol and can be used for filtering. To aid organisation, any title that ends in a colon is automatically made bold and considered a project. ![]() ![]() When you tick the checkbox, then a tag, is added to the end of the line and it is crossed out. You just start each item with a dash and it will automatically provide a checkbox next to the item. It’s a brilliantly simple idea where all it does is format up a standard text file to make it easier to use as a todo list. One of the apps that I’ve found that I’m using daily is TaskPaper from Hog Bay Software. ![]()
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