TaskPaper Extensions Wiki

[jessegrosjean]

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Use this wiki to link to posts about TaskPaper workflows, stylesheets, and scripts. If you have something to share please make a post and then link to it from this page to make it easy for others to find your post in the future.

StyleSheets

• Highlight incomplete leaf nodes (Requires included Script)
• Homebrew by Ian
• WorkFlowy inspired theme
• Creates horizontal dividers using tags and modifying your stylesheet
• Dark with amber text
• Dark Theme based on Atom One Dark
• Dark/Light from macdrifter
• OmniFocus Theme/Function from Matt Gemmell (updated for 3.2)
• Notes-First theme from pascallaliberte
• Solarized Light from walton (Updated for 3.2)
• Solarized Dark from walton (Updated for 3.2)
• Solarized Dark from Riccardo
• Pixelgrazer-Plus from tamvodopad (updated for 3.5)
• Daytime theme from derickfay
• Nighttime theme from derickfay
• Helvetidark theme from drifteaur
• 3 Task Theme from mylevelbest
• HelvetiCan Theme from wakatara
• Smyck Theme
• Tomorrow Night Eighties inspired theme [dark/light] with Omnifocus-like searches/tags
• Gruvbox theme from nwykes
• Jellybeans theme from mattmc3
• Basic theme with formatting tags
• Different Style for projects at different indent level

Note: Theme syntax changed slightly in TaskPaper 3.2 Preview (197), as follows: run[display] became run[content] instead. Some themes may need to be updated.

Scripts

How do I run or install a script?

Scripts/Tags to alter appearance

• Alternating line by line background

Date

• Script to add project names according to dates.
• Repeating tasks
• Add time to done tasks
• Convert informal date & times to yyy-mm-dd
• Script theme tweak to add colors to anything due today or tomorrow
• Scripting question changing due to today if the date is today
• Add date to a different tag than done
• Script to replace tomorrow with today
• Date picker - Requires Keyboard Maestro
• Add/Amend/Remove “@dueTomorrow”, “@dueToday” and “@pastDue” tags to items when due tag/date match “@due(yyyy-mm-dd)” format

Search and Sort

• Select all items in a project
• Sort at current depth/sort currently selected node and its siblings
• Script to append something to the current search
• Scripts to set priority, and sort a project by priority (Pareto Principle)
• Saved search context
• Keeping a list of saved searches that can be used anywhere
• How to set TaskPaper search from Script
• Search syntax showing child items only if not folded
• Script sorting top level projects alphabetically
• Sort at current hierarchical level
• Using a script to fill the search box
• Change order of results
• Using a script to fill search box
• Select nodes with no children
• Script to add backslashes to parenthesis within search tags (Hard to explain, read post for more info)
• See all tasks due in X days across all of the projects
• Scripts to sort @done(date) items at the end of projects

Move, Focus, Fold/Unfold, Copy

• Cycling focus to the next item with a given tag or itemPath
• Move to the next item while making sure the outline is in focus
• Keep cursor in place
• Move projects up or down
• Triage :: moving things quickly, with their descendants
• Script to collapse all notes in a document
• Copy a project task from the clipboard to the top of document
• Script to move selected task to other document with same Root Project Name
• Move selected tasks, with their descendants, to the top or bottom of a specified target project.
• How to focus in a given line - different try
• Focus/zoom in at a given line number
• Hide top level projects
• Add ability to quickly switch open projects with ctrl-cmd-1-2-3
• Script to move archived task to an archive file
• Selectively archive tasks
• Move selected TaskPaper items, with their subtrees, to a given project
• Focus/Unfocus commands and script
• Full screen distraction free mode
• What modifier to focus on branch
• Script to give granular control of fold and unfold in Taskpaper
• Scripts trying to explain what can be done with folds, indents, and others
• Fold/Unfold all items in a document
• Reduce outline width and depth
• Cycling focus to the next item which has a given tag or matches a given path

Tags

• Copy a section of Omnifocus tasks removing the tags to use in TaskPaper
• Highlight incomplete leaf nodes (Requires included CSS)
• Sink a branch to the top of the bottom done pile
• Autocompletion for tag values.
• Toggle multiple tags with single command.
• Eliminate due dates when done in the tag list (Eliminated due dates may be not recoverable.)
• Add project tag to selected items.
• Extract value from tags.
• Move tags to end of string.
• Check to see if selected line has tags. If there, it removes them, it not, it adds one. Good script to get started on scripting.
• Reveal a list of all values used with a particular tag.
• Copy selection to clipboard while also removing tags on clipboard.
• Sort done date items at the end of projects.
• Interesting example of a script that provides stats on tags.
• Useful script for managing repeating / recurring tasks.
• Script to auto-collapse projects based on their tag.
• Date picker for any tag type.
• Script to decrease and increase date tag values.
• Add and remove tags to help GTD process.
• Delete done tasks rather than archive them.
• Move a now or next tag on to the next item.
• Change parents’ @done tag value when all of the children have the @done tag – Can be use with other tags.

Create/Add/Modify TaskPaper Documents or Tasks

• Script :: Toggling space between document sections
• Prepend tasks with parent projects
• Populate a list before specific Project
• Populate a Daily Habits List
• Script that creates a task from a finder file or folder (uses Keyboard Maestro to call the Script)
• Script that creates top level project
• Script focuses top level “Inbox” project. If such a project doesn’t yet exist it creates it, and then focuses it.
• A script that creates a task, inserts it as first child of current item, expands current item, and moves selection to the new child item
• Copy TaskPaper line(s) containing cursor or selection
• A script to create a new document from a menu of created templates
• Copy created documents to clipboard
• Basic Script to add selected text to Taskpaper 3 inbox
• Latest quick entry solutions for Taskpaper 3
• Script to create reminders and events from tags in your tasks.
• Using existing searches to create new TaskPaper documents
• Comprehensive TaskPaper support in Emacs
• TodoFlow: Python module that provides functions to parse, filter, search and modify TaskPaper documents

TaskPaper 3 to Other Programs

• TaskPaper task to Calendar event
• Open all urls within the TaskPaper file in a web browser.
• Convert TaskPaper files to Word Documents
• Change how the format of the tabs or leading spaces
• How to convert taskpaper projects into a bullet list
• Script to create reminders or calendar events from tasks
• Script export to OPML or BML/HTML outiline
• Combining task paper with tyme for time session tracking
• Script displaying the active task in the OS X menu bar
• Script for the Uebersicht app, displaying a tag of your choice on your desktop
• Script archiving done and logging to Day One app
• Create printable TaskPaper reports
• Printing TaskPaper 3 documents with Marked2 CSS templates
• Copy only the visible lines in TaskPaper 3
• Display tasks due today on status board (iOS)
• Convert TaskPaper formatted File or Input to Markdown on Standard Output
• Javascript to convert TaskPaper items into Markdown
• Using Hook with TaskPaper

Other Programs to TaskPaper 3

• Copy a section of Omnifocus tasks removing the tags to use in TaskPaper
• Latest Quick Entry Solutions
• JavaScript to add current Safari tab to a Links: project, adding a dated @tag
• Insert All Open Safari Tabs into a TaskPaper doc
• From OmniOutline to TaskPaper
• Migrate Thing’s database to TaskPaper
• How to convert a bullet list into a TaskPaper project
• Alfred 2 workflow to create tasks, search and focus on projects, tags or saved searches
• Script to import OPML or BML files into TaskPaper 3
• Timed sprints with items selected in TaskPaper 3, using Due.app
• Append items to Taskpaper file using Siri
• iOS workflow for adding email as task from Airmal
• Importing reminders from Reminders.app into TaskPaper
• Copying tyme projects and tasks to taskpaper
• Mail to Taskpaper 3 script
• From outlook 2016 to Taskpaper 3
• Adding Devonthink entry as link in TaskPaper 3
• iOS shortcuts collection for taskpaper

Uncategorized Tidbits

• (Needs Keyboard Matestro) Quit application when last window closed
• Combine multiple commands into one
• Pasting an image into TaskPaper as a Markdown link
• Check if there is a ‘go to project’ search window present
• A generic accumulating tree walker foldltp
• Script to preserve mapping over a tree
• Toggle between expand/collapse items
• Ruby Library + HTML/CSS export + JSON export
• Show number of children tasks when parent is collapsed
• A script to convert file links to relative links
• Generic traffic light cycling for tags and values
• Scripting alternatives for tp3. Applescript and Javascript for applications
• Script help converting tp2 script to tp3
• Help with script error in Taskpaper 3
• Refresh filtered list (Now done in app, but here as reference)
• File link and spaces in name of file
• Linking TaskPaper files
• Toolbar less workflow
• Copy only the visible lines in a TaskPaper 3 selection
• Multi document->project menu
• Reporting SUM / COUNT of @tags and @tags(attribute) w/output appended as “project” to outline
• Discussion on Script hooks