Here’s a screen recording of my work-in-progress TaskPaper client, which I’m calling “PaperTrail” (as in, to let you use TaskPaper when you’re out walking a trail or your tasks are considered a trail of paper).
I made it because I had grown too annoyed with the janky interactions of Taskmator. I’m a full-time indie developer (games and apps), ex-Apple, lover of lists, and long time TaskPaper user.
It’s based on iOS Document-based app template from Xcode so gets things like Files and iCloud capability straight out-of-the-box with zero effort from me.
In the video I mark an item as done, and then again to toggle it back. Next I add a new project, type the name of new task, mark it done, archive it, manually edit the text to remove the project, and finally do a few different filters by project.
I’ve submitted to TestFlight, first version will take a short while to be reviewed. It’s now available on TestFlight and new/missing features will be added over time.
Feel free to report feedback through TestFlight, privately by DM or email, or publicly in this thread.
I’m interested in bug reports first and foremost, general thoughts and feedback, followed by change/feature requests. Everything is on the table and up for discussion!
I thought disabling word wrap was a good idea but agree it’s not. I’ll enable word wrap in the next build. (until then side scrolling is possible)
What’s the use case for this? Sub-projects? I had not considered it, so I need to understand a bit more about it to be able to implement it the best way.
Not currently, but an easy change. I’ll add the file extension .txt to supported file types. Will be in the next build.
If it gets too much, or is otherwise undesirable, I’ll open a github repo for issues and discussions.
I agree it’s a tricky thing when outlines get indented 4+ levels down and you’re seeing only one word per line! Maybe make it an editor preference?
Also, side-scrolling doesn’t work for me, the editor bounces right back. Wish I could upload a video, but this forum doesn’t accept the screen recording file format.
Exactly. I have a major project I prefer to track inside one file as opposed to 41 individual ones. Nesting projects makes it easier for me to focus on chunks that are more than just a single project but much less than the entire file. I also use this logic for book outlines.
Exactly. I’m opening files created with TaskPaper macOS, Coteditor macOS, Taskmator iOS, Kodex iOS. In files I see iCloud, Mega, Dropbox, Tailscale, etc.
Not currently. Please give an example of your use case if its something other than external URL.
Please give me an example I can play with in macOS TaskPaper.
I’ve come to realise that I use TaskPaper in a very specific and limited way, whilst others use it in more advanced ways. So you need to show me how you’re using it @amelchi
