TEKL  It would be nice to have a global hotkey to toggle visibility of TaskPaper. I would like to use F16 for that.  
(Version 1.0.3)

AETNARIA  Any chance that an 'Archive Done Projects' feature will be added before the 2.0 update? I have a bunch of empty projects I have to scroll through to reach others now, since all their tasks have been marked done and moved to the Archive.

The only clean-up option I can find is to drag the cursor over the project's name (since a double-click triggers the single-click phenomenon) and hit delete to remove them entirely. Given that tasks can be archived, is there no better way?  
(Version 1.0.3)

VERYVITO  TaskPaper is the ToDo list I've been looking for: It actually replaces the pocket-sized notebook I've kept on my desk for years -- and is just as simple to use.

It doesn't do a whole lot (thankfully!), but what it does do, it does great.  
(Version 1.0.3)

IGAUCHO  TaskPaper is an excellent alternative to the new swarm of GTD apps hitting the Mac market. There are some great choices out there. Personally I have been an iGTD user since the start, but this one really is simple and allows you to organize your tasks quickly and get started on them. It helps to avoid the hassle of over-organizing things. TaskPaper is really in its infancy still but it is backed by a very responsive developer who is burning the midnight oil to make it better constantly. Version 1.1 is supposed to bring some huge improvements and new features. Can't wait!

There are a couple features that it is missing that would make it an absolute top contender (most are echoed on the Hog Bay forums). It really needs sub-tasks, drag and drop reordering of tasks and projects, iCal syncing, and .Mac support. Aside from those few shortcomings, I enjoy using it.  
(Version 1.0.3)

GLOBETROTTERDK  I just purchased TaskPaper as a MacUpdate Promo. I went into the Hog Bay software forum to find an answer to a question I had and found the following comment from Jesse:

"I'm very likely to move new development ie version 1.1 to Leopard only..."

Maybe this should have been mentioned in connection with the MacUpdate Promo? Quite an important piece of info for anyone not planning to upgrade to Leopard right away! As far as I know, this is the only app that is planning to go "Leopard only" at this stage.  
(Version 1.0.1)

NIAMOR  I like it immediatly... Easy, fast, clear ! But i would not use it. For what ?

There are lots of little bugs in it, sa with the preferences loading, crash when opening the file with another editor at the same time, ect...

I think the support of XML would be the missing value.

At minimum, the possibility to export as xml format. Maybe the possibility to read xml...

And in the same way, it could be really a great improvement to have multiple task level in a "Project".

And then, with all that, i will found it usefull as a very simple xml editor. (or a very simple task manager ;-))

As i've say at the beginning, i like it. But for the value, 18$ is far too much !!!  
(Version 1.0.1)

ALEXIUS  After trying it out just for a few minutes... something kept nagging at me, until I realized that this really reminds me of VoodooPad.

http://trichech.us/?p=12#more-12

Is a GTD bridge for VP, and quite similar to taskpaper at first glance. I wonder if it can be expanded upon...

Don't get my wrong, TaskPaper looks great, but I've already paid for VP and 20 bucks is a little steep for me!  
(Version 1.0)

CRUCIAL  Genius

Like the other reviewer I have tried several GTD apps before, and all seemed overly complex, and incredibly rigid for my needs. Your needs are probably very different than mine, and a task management program / methodology is a very personal thing. There are no right and wrong ways, only ways that work and don't work for that particular user in their particular context.

What sets TaskPaper apart from all the other GTD / ToDo / task management programs is that it does not impose a strict structure on you. By liberating you from someone else's strict structure you are also liberated from having to tab from field to field and feeling like you are doing data entry. Entering information is just like writing notes.

TaskPaper is is based on an incredibly easy to learn syntax that you type like punctuation. Projects are denoted with a : at the end. Tasks have a - at the beginning. Contexts or tags use a @. Thats it. Nothing more to learn. TaskPaper then takes care of all the formating, allows you to search in multiple ways, presents projects in different tabbed views that behave in much the same way as Safari tabs. Click a project and you view only that project in the current tab. Command click and your project opens in a new tab. A couple of pull down acts like bookmarks letting you go directly to a project, or tag view.

Unlike any other so called productivity app, TaskPaper lets you change fonts, font size, font color and background colors. You can personalize it to look right for you. No more forms, with distracting fields all over the place, or columns that are too wide or narrow. It looks like a well formatted intelligent list, because thats what it is.

The back end of TaskPaper is a plain text file. You can move that file to any device, email it in the body of your email, view it in a web browser and even edit it on a PC. Because the syntax of TaskPaper is so transparent you can even create your tasks on a PC then view them on a Mac.

Price:

If this sold for $1.00 someone would still be complaining it was too expensive. I guess those people just don't value their time, or feel like anybody should be able to make a living from their programming skills. If I consider how much time TaskPaper has saved me, it pays for itself in hours.  
(Version 1.0)

JOACHIMR  I tried a number of GTD software, and obviously many of the apps out there have a WAY larger feature set than TaskPaper. But that was exactly my problem with them. I ended up editing this and that and spent far more time organizing than actually doing. Read the description on the website, it summarizes the differences between, say OmniFocus and TaskPaper very well. The simple structure is as follows - if you add a : behind at the end of a sentence, it becomes the "header" (or marks the beginning of a new Project). If it has a - in front, it's a Task. Everything else are notes. And if you start a word with @ in a task, it becomes a link/keyword.

The file is an actual text file that only has this structure. So you don't have to follow a database logic or file structure, but you can just type your list in any form or shape that you want (within those four parameters). It's actually pretty powerful, because the software only "understands" the text in a way that makes it easier to view and edit and "deal" with your notes. But the actual note-taking is very, very simple. Type. Done.

I agree that some features - such as web-integration - are still missing, but they are available in some form (only not for the regular user who just wants to use it) already (scripting, web). Given the previous rate of development, v1.1 can't be that far away. And with it comes a plug-in structure, so folks can add a lof of different features.

I came back to this simple approach, because in the end a simple list, just dotted down, allows you focus on the important stuff and not to dabble with "if I set this up now in this way, it will automatically do this in 3 weeks together with..." So I gave a "4" for features - not for amount or depth, but rather of effectiveness of the features.

Give it a shot. It's not for everybody. But if the other GTD or To Lists out there don't really work for you and regular handwritten, simple lists work oddly enough really well for you when you shop, for example, then give this a try. It's WAY more powerful than handwritten notes but it's simple enough to dabble with it in the rawest of formats - text - and still make sense of it.  
(Version 1.0)

THM  nice, but not worth the 19$. tools like these should better move to the web (hogbay actually has one available)  
(Version 1.0)