Wolf’s Little Store

A lot of people are interested in GTD, and they have reason to. GTD is the acronym for gettings things done: it’s the title of a book by David Allen and the main topic of the very popular blog 43folders. I haven’t been reading up too much on “life hacking” and I haven’t even read the book, but I can tell you this: since I got Taskpaper, I get stuff done. More stuff than before.

Taskpaper is a nifty little mac app, still in alpha stage, by the creator of Writeroom. Taskpaper transforms your plain text to do lists to more useful lists. Instead of using heavier GTD programs like iGTD I prefer to keep it simple: all you need to do to work with Taskpaper is the same thing you always do when you create to do lists.

This is what a Taskpaper document looks like:

How to get started using Taskpaper in 3 minutes

• First download Taskpaper.
• Create a to do list [ create a new document in taskpaper]
• List a category (e.g. Work, private) in the following format: Category name: [name followed by a colon]. Upon hitting enter Taskpaper transforms your category into a more readable format.
• Add a new item to the category using the following format: - Description of the task (dash followed by description)
• If you want to, add a tag to the task in this format: @tagname
• Add a few tasks to the list.

• When you finished a task, add @done to the task. Upon doing this the text will get striked out. If you notice there are too many striked out tasks in your list, go to Projects in the Taskpaper menu and click Archive done tasks.

  That’s all there is to it. I’m looking forward to more features in this little app (sort by tag, please!) - but for now, it’s easy and lightweight.

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