Tag: na


  • NA has always had its own search syntax for navigating TaskPaper files, but it didn’t understand TaskPaper’s actual search syntax. I thought it might be time to change that. For years, na has focused on a simple idea: when you sit down to work, you should be able to see your next actions for a…

  • One more na update

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    This week I pushed a set of focused improvements to NA that make interactive workflows a lot smoother and the codebase a little more robust — including first‑class time tracking. If you run na update without arguments you’ll now get an interactive menu that helps you pick the file(s) and actions to operate on, and…

  • Optimizing na and doing

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    I’ve been using my na and doing command-line tools daily for years, but lately they’d started feeling sluggish. When na next was taking over a second to show me my next actions from a tiny 5KB file, I knew it was time to dig in and fix things. In case you’re unfamiliar, na is a…

  • Welcome to my yearly post about stuff I’ve loved in the last year. I love doing this because it reminds me how amazing the Mac/iOS app ecosystem is these days. I can’t list every app I use in this post, it would take forever, but I can highlight some of the outstanding ones. I’m going…