TaskPaper: Plain text to-do lists for Mac

For a little history on why I created TaskPaper: From 2001 to 2007 I created and worked on another program called Mori. My goal was to create the perfect information manager. I added all the feature that I thought I wanted, but for some reason it never worked well for me. Instead of using Mori I would find myself writing my notes and to-do's in plain text files on my Desktop. As you might guess this was a little frustrating. I tried to use Mori, but I kept going back to my text files. In the end I sold Mori, and continued to make my lists in text files. But, text files aren't perfect. My to-do list text files were always messy. Being free to make a mess is important to me, but without any structure I got overwhelmed as my lists grew large. To get more organized I started adding the simplest structure that I could think of to my lists. For each project, I typed the project name and ended that line with a colon. For each task, I Tab indented it under its project and started the line with a dash followed by a space. project 1: - task1 - task2 - task3 I typed everything else in free form and called those lines notes. That small amount of structure made a big difference. I could still be as messy as I wanted to be, but I always had this simple structure to fall back on. My lists now had a structure, even if some parts were still messy. I continued to tweak the system and turned it into TaskPaper. TaskPaper now has more tricks, but at its core it's a simple system for list making in a plain text file. — Jesse

Jesse Grosjean

TaskPaper

Maker

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9yr ago

Radoslav Stankov

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Most of the time I keep a small text file with tasks, TaskPaper makes this a lot better. I was big fan of TaskPaper 2 and liking TaksPaper 3 so far :)

@rstankov Thanks, and great to here!

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