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Taskpaper syncing

The Taskpaper mac — Simpletext — Taskpaper iphone combo works alright in general.

The most problematic moment in the chain is when you’ve made changes to your Taskpaper doc on your iphone and the same Taskpaper doc is already open and running on your Mac.

The thing that works best is to run SimpleText sync from the Mac’s menubar and then, in Taskpaper, go to File “Revert To Saved”, which re-reads the file (which was just re-synced thru SimpleText) back into Taskpaper.

To speed this up and allow me to set up a keyboard shortcut for that to happen automated I wrote an applescript which does just this. First it tells Simpletext to sync, then it tells Taskpaper to revert the front most document to revert to saved, then it re-saves that document. Running this will effectively re-sync the front most Taskpaper document to whatever is in that same document in the Simpletext cloud.

Download the script here.
Unzip it so you have taskSync.scpt

then, open Taskpaper on your Mac, click on the script menu in the menubar and select “Open Scripts Folder”, which should bring up that folder in the Finder. Drag taskSync.scpt into it.

Now you can run the applescript directly from Taskpaper’s script menu.

Go to your Mac’s System Preferences —> Keyboard —> Keyboard Shortcuts Tab —> Application Shortcuts.

Click the plus symbol, select Taskpaper from the dropdown list.

Type “Revert to Saved” into the Menu Title field. Select the shortcut field and type command-2 (hold down the command key while typing “2”).

Type “taskSync” into the Menu Title field and whatever keyboard shortcut you like into the shortcut field (I use cmd-1).

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