Okay, so I'm using Taskpaper to manage my homework at the moment (and it's already the most natural solution I've ever used). I have five projects for each of the main courses that I am taking, and a project for each extracurricular that I have. I also have various extraneous projects, which of course, I'm sure you can appreciate. At any rate, would there be any chance that we could brainstorm simple and elegant ways to group projects together under a single, common idea?
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jesse - January 22, 2008 9:40 AM
I'm open to other ideas, but my thinking is that in the end you don't really get that much benefit by doing the grouping. Anything you do to create the grouping (ie adding hiearchy, collapsable tasks, etc) will add complexity to your list of task... and not having that complexity is the one big feature that TaskPaper has!
The david allen GTD book suggests that a single flat list is the best way to go. If you really do need hierarchy checkout OmniFocus. Or if you just have a few "areas" that you want to divide your projects into maybe you can just create a few different taskpaper documents, one for each area?
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Georg - May 10, 2008 1:16 PM
Hi Jesse,
during some other discussion on project hierarchies you suggested the 'I am owned if I am indented' structure.
I use it in taskpaper 1.0 and it is very (!) practical and adds a lot to the scalability. It makes your Project list readable if it is long. (nothing else actually, but thats the feature i need and its there already in taskpaper 1.0)
I noticed that in the developer version of 2.0 you do not recognice
As a project, because of the indent. Please allow Project titles to be indented, and the indent being displayed in the project list.
UPDATE - SOLVED: sorry my bad: this seems to be possible in taskpaper2.0 with only change: a few spaces instead of a tab. just a sidenote: my tasks within these sub-projects are flat on the left border without and indent. If thats still possible in TP2.0 that would be great.
Thanks! have nice vacacions! Georg
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