#Bear vs taskpaper mac os#
I don't think the animations are expensive, but it's hard to test because that work happens in Mac OS window server and I'm not an expert there. On the other hand resize is instant and only does work for visible text in Bike. And then after that resize there's lots of background processing to refill a bunch of layout caches I guess. If you open a large document in TextEdit you will see that resize is quite slow and processor and memory intensive. So you pay for that cache and you also pay for the background processing required by pre-rendering.Īlso consider simple things like window resize. For most macOS apps scrolling performance is achieved by pre-rendering before and after the visible scroll area. This means you only pay memory for visible text. In Bike it's fast enough that when you scroll it just updates what you can see on the screen. I think the architecture needed to support them means the total package is less than most apps. Already probably fast enough for 99% of use cases as is. That will be fun, but not sure it’s actually needed. Eventually I may change to augmented b+tree and then should be able to work with gigabytes worth of outline.
This is Bike’s performance bottleneck for large outlines. I’m using OrderedDictionary from Swift Collections to store rows. View implementation requires that each row has a unique ID. Each row has a `level` property, outline structure is determined dynamically. Model representation is interesting in that it’s just a flat list of rows. View performance is determined by visible text, not document size.Animations are performed by Core animation and Motion lib.I test performance using the Moby Dick Workout. Architecture needed to support fluid editing also makes Bike faster/more scalable than most (all?) outliners and many text editors.Javascript plugin API also expected in future, though no timing on that. bike file format is HTML subset, so files are easy to parse and manipulate. In outline mode rows are constrained to outline hierarchy. In text mode Bike works like a normal text editor.(movie on home page if you don't have Mac) Lots of text editors have animated some interactions (cursor movement, insert newline, etc), but I think Bike is the first designed from the ground up to support fluid editing. Jesse Grosjean, the developer of TaskPaper is an absolute genius for giving us this versatile tool.Bike’s most original feature is the “fluid” text editing. If you like text files, want an organizer, and a competent text-based outliner, TaskPaper is the answer. When it comes to quick edits, Sublime Text with the PlainTasks plug-in lets me stay in the “one-editor” to rule them all. I can use TaskPaper when I want a deep dive into an outline or list. The other advantage of using TaskPaper is that there is a fantastic Sublime Text plug-in called PlainTasks which lets you deal with TaskPaper files in Sublime Text. Fold, focus, and filter to concentrate on the section you are writing.The first letter of a new sentence is capitalized. Anytime I need an outline, TaskPaper is where I go. You can go through the documentation to learn what the product can do. TaskPaper is well-documented at Introduction It handles projects, tasks, notes and They are elegantly implemented and TaskPaper is an absolute joy to use. It is a competent outliner with the added goodness of being a text file which any text editor can deal with. It is not as full-featured as org-mode but it does perform a subset of the functions.Īt its core, TaskPaper is an outliner. TaskPaper is a text editor with outlining power. I was giving up the quest and then remembered, TaskPaper. I tried out a couple of the plug-ins which lets Sublime Text deal with org-mode, and they weren’t right. The only downside? You have to deal with Emacs. Intrigued by the content creation features of org-mode. Not interested in the task-management aspect of it.
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