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#FOLDINGTEXT VS TASKPAPER HOW TO#
These sections describe Markdown and how to use FoldingText to author Markdown documents. I hope it's useful!įoldingText uses Markdown formatting to give structure to your text files. It's my next stab at a "plain text productivity". It takes what I've learned building TaskPaper and tries to keep the good stuff, fix the mistakes, and make it more flexible. I wanted to try again and make a more flexible solution. It still works today, but it's intended for todo lists. And it allowed me to filter those files so I could find things. It gave me a simple syntax to divide my text files up into projects, tasks, and notes.
#FOLDINGTEXT VS TASKPAPER FREE#
I think being free to make a mess is important, but without a way to eventually create structure they break down. After a while they get messy and are hard to understand and navigate. Eventually I sold Mori.īut text files aren’t perfect either. I worked all day in my fancy information manager, and kept all my notes in plain text files on my desktop. This left me in an embarrassing situation. Just me and my ideas without a bunch of user interface widgets in the way. It didn't do as much, but it is clean, simple, and direct. It did everything that I thought I wanted… A place to record, process, and create ideas. My goal was to create the perfect information manager. If you know how to type, you already know most of what you need to effectively use FoldingText.įrom 2001 to 2007 I made a program called Mori. But worth checking out.FoldingText does some neat things, but in the end you are just typing. Rumours are this month but I'll believe that when I see it.
And it lacks integration with other apps right now until their long-awaited API finally appears. Notion actually gets you a long way but the learning curve is steep. I have come to realize that if you want an app that does GTD the way you want, you do need to sort of build your own. Interface is a bit dated but lots of integrations including two-way calendar integration with both Google and Outlook calendars Probably the most by-the-book app out there but Francesco actively develops it. And on both fronts: almost zero development.Īnother GTD app you can look at: FacileThings. Yes, you can save it in an email folder and go back to it but for me that is an extra step I don't want. Nirvana and GTDNext do not allow for this. I like to forward attachments, for example. Nirvana and GTDNext are great but, as you point out, the lack of integration creates friction in my workflow. I share your desire to be faithful to GTD and there are preciously few apps that do this. Todoist seems like it may also be heading in the direction of creeping feature-ism, but we’ll see. I really see it as an app that needs a complete redesign. As far as I can tell, you can’t do what I want in Omnifocus. I know how to do this in Things and Todoist. That’s just me, and what I want and need may change. Right now I like to see calendar, things due today, major ongoing projects, and things I would really like to do today. If I had to pick one thing that none of the todo list apps I am familiar with do well, it is producing a useful dashboard for daily use.
#FOLDINGTEXT VS TASKPAPER CODE#
Sending the suggestion to Cultured Code is on my Someday/Maybe list. I have an idea for a minimal change to Things which would make it much more GTD-ish. Although not as faithful to by-the-book GTD as Nirvana, I think it is a better tool for me. I chose Things in part because I value the user interface and integrations, and the flexibility of the app.
I think that producing a good app of this type is hard. Click to expand.FindIng somebody else to do it would be a project for my 3-5 year goal “Getting GTD app Done”.
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