Does anyone have experience with TaskOnPaper and/or Taskmator? I'm interested in learning about differences in stability, usability, sync to TaskPaper_Mac etc.

I recently bought Taskmator and am slogging through its formidable array of customizable preferences, but I just learned TaskOnPaper existed so I was curious as to whether I made the right choice....

this thing? https://www.taskpaper.com/

Anyone with experience with either of these iOS apps?

I did use Taskmator when it first came out. Eventually I moved over to Editorial, whixh has a good implementation of Taskpaper, and the added benefit of text editing.

Same here. I had trouble with Taskmator sync and some UI difficulties with how checkboxes were selected. Like jaslar, I found Editorial to be more usable.

I think neither Taskmator nor Editorial are anywhere near to being up-to-date with all the changes in appearance, tagging, searching, and plug-ins, and style-sheets that the developer has made in Taskpaper 3.

jaslar wrote:

I did use Taskmator when it first came out. Eventually I moved over to
Editorial, whixh has a good implementation of Taskpaper, and the added
benefit of text editing.

Taskmator is the one that seems to receive regular updates, so I'd use that one. As background, both those apps are forks from the iOS version of TaskPaper that Jesse Grosjean abandoned several years ago and placed into public domain. So I imagine they both should work okay.

Steve Z.

I have used both Taskmator and Editorial, and have gravitated more towards Editorial recently. I liked the simplicity of Taskmator, but have had problems with sync on multiple occasions.

Editorial is a little more complicated, but also more powerful depending on your needs. But I have not had any sync problems using Editorial so far.

I do not think TaskOnPaper has been updated in a long time and would be weary of purchasing it.

As an aside, I think the "new" TaskPaper has been extremely stable and powerful. I hope Jesse keeps updating it on a regular basis.

jaslar wrote:

I did use Taskmator when it first came out. Eventually I moved over to
Editorial, whixh has a good implementation of Taskpaper, and the added
benefit of text editing.

Wait, what?! Editorial implements Taskpaper? Does it sync with the Mac app?

Taskpaper documents are plain text. Editorial is plain text editor which has built-in support for the basic Taskpaper syntax. (Not the modern changes with tags, etc., in Taskpaper 3 -- nothing in iOS can deal with that.) The .taskpaper files can be saved in a Dropbox folder which is shared with Taskpaper on the desktop. It's really seamless. I do this a lot -- start a document on the desktop and save it to Dropbox. Open it in Editorial on my iPad and make changes. Go back to the desktop and work on it again. Never had a single sync issue -- because Jesse Grosjean and Ole Zorn are superb developers or their respective programs.

satis wrote:

jaslar wrote:
>I did use Taskmator when it first came out. Eventually I moved over to
>Editorial, whixh has a good implementation of Taskpaper, and the added
>benefit of text editing.

Wait, what?! Editorial implements Taskpaper? Does it sync with the Mac
app?

Wow, that's pretty cool. Thanks. I always bypassed Editorial on iOS - for years I was using Notey, until it became extremely clear that the dev had abandoned it, then I tried a few apps like Notes and Byword before landing on IA Writer, but then I started subscribing to Ulysses and have stuck with that for most things on iOS/Mac.

For accessing Taskpaper files Editorial might be an intriguing choice, if Taskmator ends up being as annoyingly cluttered as it seems at first. I found a bit more about it in Federico Viticci's Editorial review from a few years ago:

https://www.macstories.net/reviews/editorial-1-1/#taskpapermode

Editorial is my preferred TaskPaper editor on iOS because it folds the tasks up neatly, which is very convenient when you've got a long, long list.

The downside of Editorial is its sheer size – it's a very large app, no doubt because of all the cunning code-processing components lurking behind its apparently simple facade.

Otherwise I'd definitely recommend Taskmator, which is under steady development. I'm trying to persuade the developer to include folding (as you probably guessed!).

I imagine that Bill has a laptop he can fold up to business card size. And a folding bicycle, of course.

MadaboutDana wrote:

I'm trying to persuade the developer to include folding (as
you probably guessed!).

It's posts like this that make me wish this forum had a "like" button.

Paul Korm wrote:

I imagine that Bill has a laptop he can fold up to business card size.
And a folding bicycle, of course.

MadaboutDana wrote:
I'm trying to persuade the developer to include folding (as
>you probably guessed!).