If you click on any given tag TaskPaper switches to a search view listing all the tasks that have that tag, no matter what project they're under. The tags, you see, aren't just there for fun. I'm something of a tag curmudgeon, so it is odd for me to actually enjoy tagging, but TaskPaper has done the improbable: it's made me tag more. If I had a task called 'Blog about cool stuff,' and I wanted to tag it TUAW I would simply insert a space and then type TaskPaper keeps track of all the tags you use, and offers to auto-complete tags based on that history with a helpful popup menu (pictured to the right). You can tags your tasks by hitting a space and typing an followed by whatever tag you want.
#TASKPAPER INDEX TAGS FULL#
Everyone's favorite buzzword is in full effect in TaskPaper: tags. That's not to say that TaskPaper doesn't have some features influenced by the cult of GTD and Web 2.0. TaskPaper's strength is that it lets you focus on crossing out those tasks instead of building a self-referential web of unfinished business which separates you from the cold, harsh reality of all the work you need to do. These tasks exist by themselves there's no any way to link a task to another, or set a due date. You have projects, shown underlined and in bold, and under those projects you have tasks which, in turn, can have sub-tasks (as shown in the screenshot above). TaskPaper's interface is simple and to the point, as is the structure of a TaskPaper file itself. Shockingly, it has convinced me to give up my paper based list once and for all.
TaskPaper, as the name suggests, offers itself up as a replacement for pen and paper in your organizational world. TaskPaper, from Hog Bay Software, is my favorite new app of 2007 ( Skitch is also high up there, but it is still in beta. I thought all hope was lost, and that's when I met TaskPaper. That's not to say they are bad apps, they are just too complicated for my rather simple needs.
#TASKPAPER INDEX TAGS FREE#
I've looked at each with the hope that they would free me from my disorganized shackles, supplanting my paper for something more technologically advanced.
#TASKPAPER INDEX TAGS MAC#
There have been a slew of GTD-focused apps introduced on the Mac in the last few years. You can disable notifications at any time in your settings menu. It works like a charm every time, and creating one (which I do in a hierarchical fashion with several To Do's each having multiple tiers of sub-To Do's under them) is simple enough that it takes mere minutes to set up, and is flexible enough that one can track any small to medium scale project with it (assuming, of course, that the project doesn't involve too many folks). That's why, time after time, I return to the age old method: a handwritten To Do list. I get so lost in the details of creating the "System" that will supposedly let me accomplish my goals, that I never spend any time actually doing anything, other than figuring out what I have to do. Good thing there is a whole cottage industry developing around the concept of "Getting Things Done." The idea behind GTD (as the Getting Things Done wonks call it) is to create a framework around your tasks which enables you to succeed in getting those things done. I lose things all the time I forget people's birthdays and I can never seem to recall what I need to do on a given day. The one thing that I am assuredly not known for is being organized. I am known for many things amongst my circle of friends: my rapier-like wit, my roguish good-looks, and my humility.
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