Tasktop - Managing the Contex related to a Task

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Feb 15, 2008 at 04:58 PM

Update: my first impression of Tasktop is quite positive albeit not enthusiastic as yet. I don’t find the ‘task-focused’ approach itself as novel as it is presented. The whole idea of ‘hoisting’ an outline is related to focusing on a specific area of information. I have my project info in UltraRecall; if I hoist on a project, I have immediate access to all my related info while igniring all the rest.

The novelty I find in Tasktop is the ‘computer-aided’ collection of related information. Rather than having to manually import related documents, links etc as I do in UltraRecall, Tasktop virtually follows me while I’m working on a task, creating links to whatever I search, open or retrieve.

I think only a mid/long-term trial can convince one of the benefits of this automated approach. It does require some discipline. If one forgets to de-activate a task while switching to something irrelevant, one is bound to end up with unrelated content in their task tree.

Tasktop is the second novel PIM kind of software, created and used by a group of professional programmers, that has surfaced in this forum recently. The other is Noah. I find both quite intriguing, offering rather unique tools to partially automate one’s organisation. Tasktop is topic-focused, while Noah is time-oriented. I wonder how easy/difficult it would be to have both.

alx