Plus, I could never get a comfortable workflow for surfacing things at the right time. I was tracking everything in TP but I started getting serious overwhelm from my enormous text file (and breaking it up into files-per-project just lets me forget what else I need to work on). Interestingly, I am developing nearly the inverse use case. The irony is that I think it’s only by moving away from TP to a more structured task management system that I’ve been able to come back to it and use it more effectively than ever before. Having all this in one TP document rather than scattered in various locations (including the margins of unrevised paper drafts…) has been a tremendous help. serious editing, formulating an argument, checking a reference, etc., and summaries are also tagged by theme/topic so I can quickly search in TP to get a picture of the work remaining and also the structure and coherence of the whole manuscript. at a level of detail that would be Impractical to dump into omnifocus. Each chapter (of 7) is a separate project, with 30-40 entries and notes etc. So I’ve moved probably two dozen status and todo list type documents out of Scrivener and into Taskpaper. I am working on a big writing project, and have been focusing on separating tasks & planning from the ms. And other reasons, but scripting was the catalyst.īut–in the last two months, I’ve been using TP a lot, and completely differently than before. Then late last year I switched to omnifocus, which has been great - a lot of omnifocus’s built in features are things I was trying to do in TP with AppleScript, and when TP dropped support I wasn’t going to try to recreate all that in JavaScript. For maybe six years I tried to use it as general purpose task manager, with mixed success. When I am done, I move the copy to Ulysses and add MMD because I like how I can change my documents to several formats and the organization (which I believe one day will be implemented in a similar fashion in TaskPaper ) that Ulysses provides. This is just one of the many ways I use TaskPaper. ![]() Later with the use of some queries (using tags like, I work on those, in order. I just create a tags, projects, sub-projects, etc., as I go. The key to do this is to start writing and not to stop for anything. I have to create several papers a week (In English which happens to not be my first language) and I usually start with an outline and then build upon that. My typical workflow is to simply use Taskpaper as a document editor. ![]() I now use task paper for a more of my workflow. I also own 2do, but for some things it is not practical to have a gazillion (technical term) tasks. I just started using by TaskPaper as a combination of Project Manager/Tasks Manager. It is really hard to give you an answer because TaskPaper was made to be a very flexible tool by design.
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