I'd say you're not completely mad. I never thought about using
TaskPaper as a calendar, but I'm not too far off with how I'm using
it. Here's what I'm currently doing with TaskPaper... For each month,
I have a .taskpaper file with all the tasks I put in it. So this month
I have the file feb2010.taskpaper and it looks something like:
Feb 2:
- File taxes @done(2010-02-02)
Feb 11:
- Read iWoz @started(2010-02-13)
Feb 15:
- Call to schedule dentist appointment (ick!)
At the end of the month, I start a new file & copy over any
uncompleted tasks I still want to work on over to the new file.
I guess if something is due a certain date, you could add that in
there too. Something like
March 17:
- Wear something green :-)
If you want to take it to the extreme, you could modify the output of
the "cal" command from the Terminal & put that on the file. Sorry copy/
paste probably screwed up the spacing here. The only thing I modified
was moving "February 2010" over to the far left, added the : on that
line, and moved the first line of dates over a bit to (hopefully) line
up a bit better.
February 2010:
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28
-Kenny
On Feb 18, 4:53 am, aus <austinmitch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've just started using TaskPaper on the iPhone and I thought I'd give
> it a try as my main calendar. I've always been interested in using
> plain text for a calendar but until now there's been no editor for the
> iPhone that made this easy. I realise that TaskPaper is for tasks but
> it might just work as a calendar. There's still quite a lot that
> needs to be done manually but overall I like it as it's really easy to
> enter and move appointments and tasks.
> Anyone else using TaskPaper as a calendar or am I just a little
> mad ;-)
> I've also realised that TaskPaper makes an excellent generic
> outliner. It has the easiest (by far) method of indenting and moving
> branches that I've seen. The ability to collapse and expand directly
> within the editing area would make this even better.
