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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Apr 9, 2018 at 02:36 PM
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.
Posted by Captain CowPie
Apr 10, 2018 at 01:08 PM
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.
Posted by satis
Apr 10, 2018 at 09:15 PM
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?
Posted by Paul Korm
Apr 10, 2018 at 11:06 PM
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?
Posted by satis
Apr 11, 2018 at 01:11 AM
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