Tag: taskpaper
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It’s time for my yearly roundup of my favorite tools, hardware, and projects. I’m combining everything in one post this year. You might find something new, or you might just have your own preferences validated. Feel free to add your own suggestions in the comments! It’s been an interesting year. I lost my job in…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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I wrote a pretty basic script a long time ago that converts TaskPaper files to Markdown for nice previewing/publishing. I recently updated it with a bunch of modernizations. I originally wrote this script (*goes to check*) — jebus, fifteen years ago. I guess I’ve been doing this stuff for a while now. Anyway, the original…