TaskPaper for Mac

User Reviews

• Hooked - slowly, but surely

  songlinerJanuary 10, 2008

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Actually I didn't want to try it out, even though I purchased a license with the recent MacHeist bundle. As I started to think about the missing features in Things (which is going to be great, I believe - and far more flexible to suit your needs than iGTD, which I left for good) I just wanted to see how TaskPaper stacks up against it. And ... it's great. I can literally develop my own sorting and prioritization system with the task, while the interface is just great: KISS at its best. I'll stick with it for now and keep an eye on Things.

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• Genius

  mattermanOctober 23, 2007

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />This thing is genius I have tried several GTD apps before, and all seemed overly complex, and incredibly rigid for my needs. Your needs are probably very different than mine, and a task management program / methodology is a very personal thing. There are no right and wrong ways, only ways that work and don't work for you in your particular context. What sets TaskPaper apart from all the other GTD / ToDo / task management programs is that it does not impose a strict structure on you. By liberating you from someone else's strict structure you are also liberated from having to tab from field to field and feeling like you are doing data entry. Entering information is just like writing notes. TaskPaper is is based on an incredibly easy to learn syntax that you type like punctuation. Projects are denoted with a : at the end. Tasks have a - at the beginning. Contexts or tags use a @. Thats it. Nothing more to learn. TaskPaper then takes care of all the formating, allows you to search in multiple ways, presents projects in different tabbed views that behave in much the same way as Safari tabs. Click a project and you view only that project in the current tab. Command click and your project opens in a new tab. A couple of pull down acts like bookmarks letting you go directly to a project, or tag view. Unlike any other so called productivity app, TaskPaper lets you change fonts, font size, font color and background colors. You can personalize it to look right for you. No more forms, with distracting fields all over the place, or columns that are too wide or narrow. It looks like a well formatted intelligent list, because thats what it is. The back end of TaskPaper is a plain text file. You can move that file to any device, email it in the body of your email, view it in a web browser and even edit it on a PC. Because the syntax of TaskPaper is so transparent you can even create your tasks on a PC then view them on a Mac. Price: If this sold for $1.00 someone would still be complaining it was too expensive. I guess those people just don't value their time, or feel like anybody should be able to make a living from their programming skills. If I consider how much time TaskPaper has saved me, it pays for itself in hours.

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