My daily plan is a TaskPaper document which includes several lists of tasks by type of activity (writing, doing small tasks, processing and organizing and meetings) and a time schedule where the same tasks are parsed into particular time slots. To keep my days under control I use simple daily plans generated by a combination of TaskPaper and TextExpander. The decision about which application opens a particular file is made by macOS and MindNode does not try to interfere in that at all.Have you ever tried to take your days one by one when they kept coming to you all at once? I have many times. It never tries to actively set itself as the default application for them or something like that. Regardless, MindNode simply declares that it can open TaskPaper files. The only explanation that I can come up with is that such TaskPaper files must lose their settings for that attribute somehow.Īnd so can only retain or regain it if that attribute is set in the system-wide database.īecause they have essentially become different ‘versions’ of themselves and so the single setting is no longer valid?Īnd then this happens (quoting from MindNode again): But why the ‘parent’ application of TaskPaper files changes after a few hours in DT still puzzles me. I’ve now heard back from the very helpful folks at MindNode.Ĭhanging ‘Open with…’ for only a single file causes a special attribute to be written to that file (as can be seen using xattr -p /path/to/file.īut changing it for all files changes a database in the system I should like to repeat, please, though that I am a huge fan of DEVONthink and DEVON Technologies and that I started this thread not to complain but in the hopes of discovering something that may help other DT TaskPaper users, as well as me ! That made me wonder whether - since the phenomenon does not manifest itself outside DT - there is some kind of post-import process which either copies, indexes or modifies the TaskPaper files which I have imported such that they lose the launch association - because the association has only been set for the file as it was when it was imported? It should surely not be necessary to set all the others of that type for the settings for the one, first file to stick. I remain puzzled as to why it appears necessary to do this, though: either setting a (single, particular) file to open with a specified app applies or it does not apply. No reversal to MindNode in my DT database (so far). The only change I made (on 2 September) was at and suggestion (thanks): I set ‘Change all’ in the Finder to associate all such ( TaskPaper) files to open (only and always) with TaskPaper. Maybe allow Onyx to rebuild my launchdb?Īlso relevant, I would’ve thought: TaskPaper docs always open with TaskPaper outside of DT. I looked at A Better Finder Attributes to see if it could keep track of when such metadata has been changed. I started a thread on the TaskPaper forum, where - as I expected, and as I know to be true, and as I know DT works - all associations (must) follow the operating system assignment! If I locate and reveal them in the Finder (from within DT they are imported, not indexed, BTW) the association (Cmnd+I) has also changed to MindNode (that is, at the filesystem level)! Then - I swear, without my doing anything to them (except adding each to the DT Reading List) - they steadfastly start launching MindNode.Īs if there were some sort of spidering or indexing taking place that changes their association.
The really strange thing is that TaskPaper files (I currently have two of them in DT) consistently open with TaskPaper, as they should and because of the association I have/had set for each of them (although I have not checked ‘Change all’), for a few hours/for a few DT sessions. TaskPaper docs do always open with Taskpaper from the filesystem (not in DT), BTW… I have a suspicion that moving the TaskPaper files into the Reading List may be causing this? Just a hunch.
But I know I shouldn’t have to open them this way. mindnode! I do have MindNode files elsewhere in DT could that be causing this?ĭT’s own Context > Open with usually works. taskpaper to begin with is being changed (surely not by DT) to. I’m using the routine, File > Share > Add to DEVONthink 3, to import rather than dragging the TaskPaper files.
I have done all the usual things (set Open with in the Finder before importing etc) and as discussed here. It works for a day or two (I know, this sounds ridiculous) - then reverts to opening them with MindNode. taskpaper extension and despite setting them to open in TaskPaper in the Finder before importing!
It opens them in MindNode - despite their. Cannot get DT 3.8.5 (on 12.5.1) consistently to recognize TaskPaper documents for what they are.
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