4/16/2023 0 Comments Taskpaper theme notes![]() I don’t concern myself with deciding if it’s going to be a task or if it’s simply some valuable information supporting a future task. Throughout my work day, I’ll toss bits of information at the top of my TaskPaper document. I also add tags to the ends of notes for quickly relating attributes or simply providing better search results later. If a note needs to become a task, I simply add a hyphen to the beginning. I take phone conference notes right in my task document. Quick entry tasks are added at the top but I also use it as a scratch pad. The top of my task file is a sort of inbox for that area of work. There are hacks to avoid this in OmniFocus that involve creating a sub-project or task to hold reference information long-term, but that’s ugly and definitely not a strength of the OmniFocus system.īut it is a strength of plain text. Once the task is complete and cleaned out of the database, it’s gone. There’s a pretty good reason for working this way in OmniFocus. In the past I’d capture my notes in various working documents and sit with OmniFocus as I transcribed notes into tasks.Ī typical OmniFocus workflow separates the bulk of the reference material from the individual task. I’m a text file kind of guy and I depend on a lot of reference material. Each step generates actionable information as well as reference material. ![]() ![]() Most of my projects involve gathering lots of little bits of information and are generally broken down into actionable tasks:īut there are also more complex projects that involve meetings, debates, reviews and evaluations. That’s where I’ve seen a significant benefit in the TaskPaper format over my previous 7 years with OmniFocus. 2 The first obvious conclusion is that I almost always need data and information to do anything reasonably complex. ![]() 1 I’ve spent the past month simplifying and analyzing how I make things happen. I’m about two months into my move from OmniFocus to plain text task management. ![]()
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