![]() ![]() Sublime Text v3 is more expensive than TaskPaper but it is a text editor for many use cases. Markdown Preview (allows you to preview and print a markdown (and *.taskpaper) file via your browser) PlainTasks to open and edit *.taskpaper files These are the packages I have installed in Sublime Text v3: The *.taskpaper files (and others) are stored in a Dropbox folder. So I decided to buy Sublime Text 3 because it is available for WIN and OSX. First, I considered to buy the TaskPaper App but it is available for OSX only. ![]() I am using *.taskpaper files together with Editorial (on the iPhone) and with Sublime Text v3. I don’t spend enough time in Scrivener to make this a reasonable solution, unfortunately. On iOS, it’s actually quite viable, but the desktop app is the crunch point - it’s just a bit too heavyweight to be usable in this particular way, although regular users of Scrivener could easily take advantage of that functionality. I’ve briefly tried using Scrivener as a task management system. But it’s true that TaskPaper has gained a level of traction that FoldingText has never managed to acquire (possibly because of the rather robust pricing for what is, when all’s said and done, a text editor but BBEdit is also robustly priced, so clearly there’s a demand for such things). One of the frustrating things about TaskPaper, and the reason I no longer use it, is that it doesn’t support any kind of Markdown.įoldingText is actually a much more powerful and flexible product than TaskPaper, and I’m slightly surprised that the developer has chosen to refocus on the latter. I agree, Editorial TaskPaper is actually better than the original. The downside, maybe, with Editorial is that it hasn’t had an update for over a year-but Editorial’s author, Ole Zorn, did recently upgrade his Pythonista app which I think is a good indicator that Editorial will be next on his list. Includes folding, a la Folding Text.Įditorial does a better job with TaskPaper, IMO, than the official macOS versions written-including TaskPaper 3. taskpaper files-“TP Due Date”, “TP Mark due and available”, and “TP Focus on Tag…”. These workflows enable Editorial to read/write and work with. I’ve been using several contributed TaskPaper workflows with Editorial for quite a while. Editorial has deserved a powerful desktop companion for a couple of years, and FoldingText is perhaps the nearest thing to a directly comparable app. I’m kicking myself for not finding these things out earlier! Now I have a nice, folding text editor combination on multiple platforms that’s aesthetically pleasing (sorry, but I simply can’t get on with these horrible text editors preferred by programmers with their DOS-era looks, ghastly colours and numbered lines - there, I’ve said it!), that supports focusing and tagging, and can sync very rapidly over Dropbox. 1Writer on iOS, Outlinely on MacOS), but they do implement it. ![]() ![]() They don’t implement it quite as well as other apps (e.g. And both of them understand GitHub task list syntax, which is extremely useful. Above all, both of them allow you to fold sections of text under headers, which is such a useful feature. It is, in short, a great way to keep Workflowy-style lists for task management.īut there’s still no sign of an Outlinely for iOS, and Robin still hasn’t unveiled his plans for OutlineEdit for iOS, so I started casting around in some frustration for another solution.Īnd found it in a slightly unexpected quarter: FoldingText, from the somewhat eccentric developer of TaskPaper, combined with the extremely powerful Editorial on iOS.īoth of them can access Dropbox, and both of them understand the same hybrid syntax (not entirely consistently, but that’s okay – highlights and comments work, for example). I like the desktop version of Outlinely very much it’s very quick to use, quite flexible, and it’s easy to move items from one part of the outline to another. I’ve been pining for an iOS version of Outlinely for a while now. ![]()
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