Tasktop - Managing the Contex related to a Task

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Aug 23, 2008 at 02:29 PM

Hi Graham,

Graham Rhind wrote:
>On Sunday the day folders run out and don’t
>reappear until Monday, because the developers assume we all work Monday to Friday and
>cannot conceive that we don’t; so one can no longer see the tasks one needs to do the next
>day.

You obviously use the Focus on Workweek mode for your task list. For my part I have chosen to ignore this kind of auto-hiding of potentially important tasks. I have simply gathered my tasks within certain categories (work, family, personal etc.) and maintain the category relevant to my situation expanded. I am still weary of letting the computer decide what is important or not, that’s why I never quite got automatic schedulers such as TimeTo.

Your note on Tasktop being limited to what one can do through a browser is right on spot. Tasktop especially can’t deal with whatever one does within an external program such as the all-encompassing PIMs we discuss here. For example, to Tasktop an UltraRecall database is a single file, even though it may represent the totality of one’s project information.

In theory, one should be able to create hyperlinks to specific records within such a database if the PIM supports these and UltraRecall, Surfulater, Evernote (2) and several others do. In fact I have tested this kind of linking from Tasktop to databases and it works, though it’s not as easy as I’d like it to.

Last but not least, I tried working with Tiddlywiki from within the Tasktop browser and it works fine, as I imagine many other wikis will. If I didn’t work with Brainstorm as my main note taking application, I would have a separate Tiddlywiki file for each of my projects (listed as tasks within Tasktop) and would do most of my work from there. In fact, I might even do that for new projects, if I find a powerful enough browser-based wiki.

Alexander