It was before the Internet was such a force, and physical It may be my faulty memory,īut I believe in the OS 8 and 9 days these things were larger and moreĮxciting. It was larger than any in the recent past. So I thought I’d give some remarks on theĬonsumer version: Macworld Conference and Expo, just held. I got a lot of positive feedback on my report on the Worldwide Developer’sĬonference last summer. I can’t say much at this point, but it is a media outliner, meaning you But I do think it’s a huge leap in the power of conceptual tools for Risky, it’s ambitious, and there will be parts we’ll have to adjust as we It’s time for a major advance, and guess what? After daydreaming,ĭesigning, and proposing, I am now actually building something. In fact, though most of theĪTPO tools are great, there hasn’t been a significant advance in this Tools we have now are robust and good, there really isn’t one that doesĮverything I want and can imagine wanting. ATPO has convinced me that although the set of Work again and successively worked myself into a situation too sweet to In the last year and a half, I’ve gotten involved in some real, paying Much of what I know in this area is courtesy of publicįunding, and I think best when presenting to an intelligent audience, so Technique of mixed graphic and text conventions that are the core of Using the insights I’d gathered over the years about the very wonderful To do, and although I’ve been a longtime user of Macs, I now had to relyĪTPO began as a sort of open search for tools that I might use myself, Of setting up my own personal infrastructure. Retirement, those problems continued to haunt me, even down to matters That will vex you if you let them into your life. That little statement hides many problems Would use to cross that boundary would all be based on the same notions,īoth intuitive and formal. Think, the way the machine “thinks,” and the tricks the user interface I used to run research that looked at ratherĬhallenging problems in what constitutes knowledge worth knowing, how weĪssemble it and make it live and matter. Information at the end of the column about my affiliation. But this is a small detail which can probably be fixed in the future.If you’ve been reading ATPO in the past you might have noted confusing It used to be available in previous versions, but now I simply don’t know how to set it up and the Preferences do not give me a lead. One thing I miss in TaskPaper 3 is a system-wide shortcut to add new tasks. The system is so convenient that I sometimes catch myself actually composing pieces of text in TaskPaper (in “Notes” attached to tasks). Completed tasks can be quickly archived (⌘⇧A) to clear the working space. I love that it is so easy to move tasks between sub-projects with a shortcut (⌘/) and not only with dragging them by a mouse. For example, the manuscript revision tasks can be structured into “Additional reading”, “Reworking Figures”, “Re-writing Methods”, “Preparing responses to reviewers” etc. Most visibly, it allows to collapse or expand items as well as focus on specific projects in the side-bar, thus acting as an outline and not simply a linear task list. But last year TaskPaper started an entirely new game with version 3, which retains its plain-text simplicity while adding smoothness and sophistication often needed for complex projects. Or how to use TaskPaper together with Ulysses in responding to reviewers’ comments on your manuscript. I have been using TaskPaper for many years and explained how it is important when things move too fast for OmniFocus with its slow weekly rhythm. I have no idea how I would stay sane, if not for TaskPaper, my favourite app for dealing with complex projects. Such sticky projects involve hundreds of details that need to be remembered: “reformat table 3”, “find the page number in reference 76”, “ask someone to rework figure 5”, “read an article that the reviewer has pointed to”. I have recently completed a large grant proposal and several research manuscripts.
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