Full-screen mode on an iMac is unusable.These are some suggestions for improvement: Makes NotePlan a complete, device-independent, text-based solution for your note-taking and task management system. The additional keyboard row gives you often used markdown commands.
Useful for a quick look at your schedule for a particular day.Ĭlicking on the list icon on the top left of the screen gives you the choice of switching to the Notes or Calendar view and the Settings of the application. The tasks for each day are shown at the bottom of the calendar, which is shortened. If you click on the icon second from the right-hand corner, you get this view. This is the calendar view on the iPad version. The developer has obsessed over each feature of the product and it shows throughout the iOS versions. You can link between notes and there is a nice distraction-free interface with markdown aids for you to write your notes. You can add tags to the notes and filter the notes through your tagging system. They are stored in iCloud and synced between your devices. NotesĪlong with the calendar, NotePlan lets you manage your notes. At this point, even though there is a hierarchy, the application treats each task as a separate entity and doesn't move the subtasks. Or, Send to ( ⌘+⇧+S) a different day.Īn area of improvement for NotePlan, if a task has several sub-tasks and the main task is being sent to a different day, the subtasks should move with the main task. Mark as scheduled ( ⌘+⇧+D), which will let you assign a reminder to it. NotePlan has good task management commands built in. The preferences give you the option of showing/hiding the subtasks from the list of tasks shown in the calendar. You have the ability to assign sub-tasks to a task by indenting the content. The individual tasks show up in calendar view as tasks. You can have different markdown headings for different projects. These individual tasks can have subtasks. You write a unordered list in Markdown on the daily note and they are parsed as individual tasks. You write plain text files with Markdown. These are the key elements of NotePlan: Markdown BasedĮverything is Markdown-based. NotePlan promises to provide "Efficient Daily Planning for Professionals Using Markdown." It is a system which incorporates markdown, a calendar, and notes. There is a new entrant in this field with a complete multi-device solution. Developers have filled the gap on iOS, Taskmator - TaskPaper Client, Plain Text Todo List on the App Store is a good example of that. There is an active community around the product and they have turned it into a capable task manager. Todo.txt is distinguished by being supported on multiple platforms.
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TaskPaper – Plain text to-do lists for Mac.Todo.txt: Future-proof task tracking in a file you control.Quite a few attempts have been made to incorporate task management into the world of plain text files. Note: There is a two day launch discount on June 14-15 for both the iOS and Mac versions of NotePlan. JNotePlan Tackles Your Tasks and Notes Through Text Files