macOS Checklist App

Posted by Amontillado
Sep 24, 2020 at 02:52 PM

Lack of repeats was why I set Taskpaper aside, then I discovered its Javascript support.

I use this script for repeating tasks - https://github.com/dannynelson/taskpaper-repeat/releases

You put that in Taskpaper’s script folder. After starting Taskpaper, run the script. Any done tasks with a repeat tag will repeat, and the script will keep watching tor things getting completed. You only need to run the script once.

So, I made a Keyboard Maestro macro that runs when Taskpaper launches. It runs the repeat script for me. The only glitch is the script will terminate if there isn’t an open file to work on. Easy fix. Instead of launching Taskpaper and then opening a file, I double click on a taskpaper document. Works great.

Other things that make it work better for me are native Taskpaper preferences to include the date when an item is checked off and to add an @project tag when a done task is moved to the archive.

There are trade-offs. Taskpaper doesn’t have an IOS version, but there is another project that works there (Taskmaster?) and uses Taskpaper files. I don’t bother, though. Taskpaper integrates with Apple Reminders and I don’t walk out the door without my laptop.

OmniFocus will fire off reminders based on your location. You could do that in a Taskpaper extension, but since you’d have to wander the streets with your laptop up and running, there’s probably no point. Reminders will do that for you.

Here’s Hog Bay Software’s wiki of Taskpaper extensions - https://support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/taskpaper-extensions-wiki/1628

Note these are user contributions. They aren’t all perfect. Try them out on throwaway Taskpaper documents first.

On another note, my outlining process has kind of morphed into ordered notes, sort of like post-it storyboarding, and I don’t need all that something like OmniOutliner does. Taskpaper will work as a simple outliner, too.

steve-rogers wrote:
I’d be very interested to learn more about how you do this.
>I’ve loved the simplicity of TP and its reliance on text files. I
>use it on a per-project basis, but lack of repeating tasks makes it
>difficult to commit to for daily/weekly task management.