(2023-10-01) Ptpl072 I Love Keeping All My Projects And Tasks In A Single Searchable File

Ellane W: PTPL 072: I Love Keeping All My Projects and Tasks in a Single, Searchable File. I recently spent a very intense day exploring all the ways I could record tasks as they came up that would give me a more streamlined, simplified project and task management system.

Conclusion: the way I’m doing things doesn’t need to change. I’ve made a few tweaks to the way I name my tasks to make it easier to process my inbox, but on the whole it is still a single TaskPaper syntax file, with linked project pages for keeping track of the details.

Oddly enough, I found this result disappointing! I really thought I would find a way to throw all tasks into a big bucket

Why, then, was the one-file-per-task experiment a failure? It felt like I’d added complexity to something that was begging for simplicity

Moving tasks up and down the list of priorities for a project became harder to do.