My whole TP workflow has shifted. For maybe six years I tried to use it as general purpose task manager, with mixed success. 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. And other reasons, but scripting was the catalyst.
But–in the last two months, I’ve been using TP a lot, and completely differently than before. I am working on a big writing project, and have been focusing on separating tasks & planning from the ms. Itself. So I’ve moved probably two dozen status and todo list type documents out of Scrivener and into Taskpaper. Each chapter (of 7) is a separate project, with 30-40 entries and notes etc. at a level of detail that would be Impractical to dump into omnifocus. My tasks are tagged by type e.g. 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. 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.
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.