![]() When you’ve done with a task, you can just delete it or mark it as done (which will nicely format the text as strike-through) and even archive it.Īnd this is all you need to know to start using TaskPaper. Anything else (i.e text not started by a dash, not ended by a colon, or not preceded by is considered as notes. If wherever in the text you prepend the email symbol to a word, this word becomes a tag. If instead of adding a colon at the end of the line, you start the line with a dash followed by a space, TaskPaper recognizes this text entry as a task and formats it accordingly. Add a colon to the end of the line you’ve just typed, and TaskPaper automatically formats the text and convert this simple task into a project. ![]() To add things to your to-do list in TaskPaper, you just have to type text. Jesse Grosjean (CEO of Hog Bay Software) put online a 9-minute video explaining TaskPaper if you wish to see it in action. ![]() In a nutshell, TaskPaper is a fully customizable text editor with auto-formatting, an elegant, simple but flexible UI and a very powerful yet super easy to use search engine, all of this being specially and cleverly thought for task management. At first sight, its UI may look really basic but trust me, there’s a lot more under the hood. TaskPaper is super-fast, super reliable and doesn’t get in your way. However, with all these three apps, I finally found myself more dealing with all the nice program views / data sorting possibilities than actively doing things. They also don’t strictly depends on the GTD-way of capturing, sorting and doing things, though both apps are flexible enough to let you use it GTD-style if you wish. In short, Things and The Hit List both takes a fresher, more modern approach and both sport a really nicer UI (special mention to the Cards view of The Hit List). I have to say this is not the most beautiful UI I’ve met, though this is a matter of personal taste (and while there are a lot of custom themes to download over the web, all the ones I’ve encountered retain the original somewhat spartan appearance, probably due to customization limitations). It’s also the app sticking most with the GTD concepts out-of-the-box. All these apps are excellent and feature-packed. Over the last five years, I’ve tried three other Mac ‘to-do list apps’: OmniFocus, Things and The Hit List. TaskPaper by Jesse Grosjean’s Hog Bay Software is a to-do list app that is, as Jesse writes, “surprisingly adept”. The title of this series says it all: each post will describe an app 1 that I love using and explain why I love this app (often by comparing it to other equivalent apps). This is the first post in the “Apps I Love” series.
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