Taskade

Posted by satis
Nov 5, 2018 at 09:46 PM

By timestamp I simply mean being able to paste in some user-preconfigured date/time info.

Here’s what my PopClip extension (yea, it’s working again!) just pasted:

2018-11-05 16:39:30

Nothing really special, but something like that’s useful for me when taking contemporaneous notes on something in a text editor, or in a notes field.

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To me the expected behavior for ‘hit Enter on blank task’ was just to create an empty sub/task then move down to the next level.
What actually happened - unindenting the subtask I was in (so it becomes a higher level task) - just seemed weird.

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I understand why Taskade didn’t initially include Add new subtask/child/daughter (or Add Aunt) - it’s not common in task managers. But it’s very common in outliners, and when I sit down to brainstorm tasks it makes the most sense to me.

Example: I need to go run errands at the mall, so I make MALL SHOPPING a task then immediately want to jump down a level to make a subtask-checklist for each store I ant to visit Let’s say the first is ‘Petco’. Currently in Todoist or Taskade I need to make a new sister-topic (though it doesn’t belong there), then indent it, then create *another* sister-topic, and then indent *it* to start the shopping list. (But a single keyboard command to make a daughter/child/subtask is cleaner, and faster.) And then, from inside my last Petco checklist item, in order to create and start a list for the next store - say ‘Target’ - I’d need to create a new sister-checklist item and *unindent*... then create a sister item to it and *indent again* to start the new line of checklist items.

In an outliner it’s TASK (Mall), then Daughter-subtask command (Petco), then Daughter command again (checklist level with as many item/Enter as necessary), and then for the next store;s list (Target) it’s New-Aunt, then New Daughter for the checklist level. Faster. Cleaner.

I wouldn’t say Taskade should scrap any current commands, just that adding Daughters and Aunts as keyboard commands would make things zippier. :)