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by Leftium 1139 days ago
I like Taskpaper-style tags with values like `@done(2023-05-04)`.

Unfortunately the only good Taskpaper client is on Mac: no decent Windows/web/mobile clients.

Someday, I'll get my PIM built... it will be a cross between TaskPaper, nvAlt, SimpleNote, and Drafts app.

Right now, I mostly use SimpleNote (just for keeping notes across devices; not so much for tasks)

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O, I’ve never heard of TaskPaper. Looks nice!

Why the cross between so many apps?

Just picking and choosing the best features from my favorite apps:

- TaskPaper tags are nice, but isn't multi-platform.

- I like search+creation UX of nvAlt (explained well on: https://notational.net/), but no decent non-mac clients. Also non-plaintext richtext gets in the way.

- I use SimpleNote because it's multiplatform, but the tags are hard to use. Also somethings like inter-note tags are just a distraction for me (I prefer just being able to type brackets []).

- Drafts probably has the best plaintext editing experience, especially on mobile. Also the actions are very powerful.

My app will combine tasks + notes + bookmarks. I've been making prototypes of subsets of the features, like:

- https://multi-launch.leftium.com/

- https://instant.leftium.com/

- https://todo-taskpaper.leftium.com/

- https://plaintext-press.leftium.com/https://www.dropbox.com/...

- https://github.com/Leftium/todo.html