Jesse,
I caught a limitation to the Quick Entry function. If I add @done to a task within the Quick Entry window, and then run an 'Archive Done Tasks' command within TP, the entry is archived, but not tagged with a date.
I don't want to call it a bug, as this may be outside the scope of what may be the intended purpose of TaskPaper, but I found the Archive an excellent repository for all completed tasks throughout the day, not just tasks created and accomplished within TP.
Whatever you decide, thank you for providing TaskPaper, and WriteRoom for that matter. Both allow me to get more done, quickly, and peacefully. I loved all the bells and whistles of software over the past decade, until it became all toot toot ding ding, 50x times a day in 20-odd programs. But hey, we had to go there to get here, right?
-Mike
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jesse - July 1, 2008 10:56 AM
I'm not sure that I fully understand what is happening...
Normally the date gets associated with the @done tag when you add the done tag, not when you archive the task. So I don't think that archiving is really part of the problem. Instead it sound like maybe you are trying to mark the task as done using the Command-D command while in the Quick Entry View? Unfortunately that doesn't work right now, the Quick Entry View doesn't support Command-D, so instead that action is targeted to the frontmost TaskPaper document. So in the Quick Entry View you can mark a task as done by typing "@done" but you can't use the keyboard shortcut, and it's the keyboard shortcut that adds the date.
Does that make sense?
Maybe I should make Command-D also work in the quick entry window... though that's starting to get a little weird. Generally quick entry should be for just quick entry, I think it would work better if you just used the normal taskpaper interface for managing tasks, marking them as done, etc.
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Matthew Crider - July 1, 2008 12:15 PM
Jesse,
Here's where I think Mike is coming from, though he can certainly speak for himself.
Suppose you have a project and you have listed some tasks, but you haven't yet made an exhaustive list of tasks yet, because you are still fleshing it all out. Further suppose, that you go off and work on something else and the phone rings and its a call regarding something about this project. And, during this phone call you complete a task that you had not thought of yet (because it just came to you) or that you just hadn't had time to put in yet. So, in this case you would like to ability to quick entry the task that you completely (in order to have a historical record of what you've actually done) and add "@done" to the end and have TaskPaper behave as you would expect it to behave had you placed "@done" on a task in the normal manner.
This is a real world example of what can occur when interfacing with TaskPaper.
In addition, one could just use the quick entry (along with @done) to keep a record of what you're accomplishing throughout the day. Do something - quick entry - write out what you did - add @done and bang you have a record of what you did. It's just a way of logging activities and having a record of when each item was done.
Matt
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