

You would like to put the task list on an internal webpage, and Need to clock the working time on a task, when you wish youĬould record a link to that email that triggered the task, when The problem with a program like taskpaper is that you willĮventually be hit by its limitations. Use Emacs *because* it allows us to fiddle, to get things right, I am for sure the biggestĮxample of a person who uses fiddling in that way. People who useįiddling with the TODO system as a way to procrastinate canĬlearly benefit from such a system. It isĪ list, and there is no way to fiddle with it. What is so greatĪbout taskpaper that it is (so far?) almost fiddle-proof. Hit the nail on the head (he always does). It seems to me that Merlin Mann in his review of Taskpaper has Re-enforce the notion that Org-mode really the most simple system Tutorials, describe a simple setup they use on the web, to This is why I have asked, so often, for people to write more
#Taskpaper web full#
The full set of features will hit you when reading the manual.
#Taskpaper web manual#
How can this beĪddressed? As the author of the manual I see it as my task toĭocument Org-mode compactly and as completely as possible. So the complexity of Org-mode is, as I see it, mostly a problem

Themselves often in a situation where they think "Gee, I wish IĬould to this", they open the manual and, voila, yes, I can! My ideal picture would be that newcomers indeed use Org-mode as a You can pull in when you are ready, when you find out that there Non-imposing way! It has lots of features under the hood that Of course, Org-mode allows you to do more, but I would hope in a Trees, it really is totally as simple as taskpaper in every way! You can add tags by hand, get lists for certain tags as sparse To follow the taskpaper webpage, open a file There, either as plain text in *any* editor, or using Emacs which Zero-setup, totally simple TODO manager that works with plainįiles, files that can be edited on pretty much any system out Intents and purposes, Org-mode *is* taskpaper! It is a The important point I would like to make here is that for all Have failed to live up to this, I definitely would like to know Part of the complexity is forced on the user. Org-mode: That the simple stuff should remain simple, that no I have been using one principle as the overruling requirement for Triggered but lots of truly excellent suggestions on this forum, However, while adding features, more often than not Org-mode has indeed become very feature-rich in the run of the Well because there is a certain amount of truth in the matter, ofĬourse, and I would like to address this in a more serious I hope that you will all forgive me my little joke. Org-mode versus Taskpaper - now for real Org-mode versus Taskpaper - now for real emacs-orgmode
