Taskmator - TaskPaper Client

This app got everyting that a TaskPaper user needs to work on their lists.

Dropbox integration is ok. iCloud syncing however is not supported. You cannot simply store your documents in iCloud and have iCloud automatically handle syncing. Since I dropped dropbox and have switched to iCloud entirely, this app has no use for me any more.Since long, I requested the developer to support icloud in a similar way like dropbox. It doens't and probably never will. Unfortunately, because this is a nice app (if you use dropbox).

This software is promising and very useful note keeping in meetings and it follows the task paper structure. It could use some work on using external keyboards. Browsing lists with for example arrow keys is not working, editing a line is question of tapping the screen, changing hierarchy (indent) needs also a tap on the screen. That would improve the tool considerable. It is the reason why I unfortunately cannot give it more than 3 starts.

Best wel een leuke app. Maar het zoeken is niet goed, je krijgt te veel informatie in het scherm omdat het systeem aan twee kanten zoekt. 1.) Oplossing Op alle velden zoeken. Op een veld zoeken. ( Documenten.) Knop maken aan/uit.

After the original TaskPaper for iOS app became defunct I looked at various alternatives - and this is it. Quick searches for @tags and projects, an editor with good shortcuts without getting in the way, seamless integration with TaskPaper Mac with Dropbox syncing, and based on the same source, updated for iOS 8.

Still a problem - and fatal for me. Using the scroll bar feature works well and can quickly move from top to bottom of a file be sliding your finger tip from top to bottom of the edge of the screen. But the normal method of scrolling up or down on an iPhone remains how Steve Jobs demonstrated it in 2007. Flicking up and down the screen. 14 years of muscle and brain memory is really hard to stop using. And this is Taskmator's failure. I regularly see some random bit of text flying up the screen to a new location without doing a "tap and hold" to select the text I want to move somewhere rose. The problem with the super speed of dragging to the top of the document after just starting to drag seems to have been fixed. So the inadvertent move does seem constrained to be modestly local to the starting location. When I do use tap and hold it seems to have a significant delay before popping the text up to move. This is good and I wonder how flicking can get past this delay. Perhaps if tap and hold to move is set to only work when the text is STATIONARY. Just thinking. I will not give up on Mac TaskPaper as it is one of the most creative apps ever introduced. I use it every day and a lot. Thank you to Jesse Grosjean. Just duplicate TaskPaper on IOS and you can have a real winner.

The direct Dropbox integration doesn't work at all -- maybe it was abandoned when the Files app integration got added? Or so it would seem. Sadly, the Files app integration is quite bad; syncing doesn't seem to happen. Also (maybe related?) there's some weird lagginess if you turn off Apple Reminders integration. This app might be okay if you're only working with local files on your iPad, but if you want to store your Taskpaper files in the cloud. Essentially, this seems like abandonware. Stay away.

I’m frustrated by frequent crashes and menu options not working. Edit: where do I find version 3.9994? The last iOS version 5.46 is 3 months old. Edit 2: tried contacting the developer but received no revert ☹️

Well thought out.

I was slow to accept TaskMator because of its visual paradigm. When I make a task list on paper, each item has a check box and I check that when it’s done. If I strike through the task, it means I decided against it - decided the task wasn’t a priority. TaskMator, like other TaskPaper apps, strikes through completed tasks, which makes less sense to me and makes my record of completed work harder to read. TaskMator just works so well that it won me over anyway. It’s simple, easy, reliable, synchronized across all my devices, and the tagging mechanism makes it easy to filter my lists to see what I want - quicker and easier in most cases than a “real database” app. I use TaskMator not just for task tracking, but for other lists like groceries, packing lists, and items I am collecting. It’s one of my most-used apps.