Better task management using special symblos and a Kanban-style pane

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I think Task Board plugin is the very close thing to this right now. Also there is CardBoard plugin, which is already in the market place.

The drag and drop feature is coming very soon in the Task Board plugin, and it will be soon released in the Obsidian community plugins.

To define into custom categories, you can create all the columns as namedTag in the Task Board plugin and enter the tag which you have assigned to those taks. The respective tasks will be visible in your respective columns. Also all non-tagged tasks will be under the UnTagged column. Drag and drop will make it much powerful, by just dropping into the specific column, the task’s tag will be changed to that of the columns tag.

So, basically we can create a checkbox using three different ways :

- [ ] 
+ [ ] 
* [ ]

In the Task Board plugin, if you want the task to appear on the Kanban board, you will only have to use - [ ] type. The rest two will be ignored, giving the user power to decide which tasks should be scanned by the Task Board plugin.
There are different types of checkboxes, will be added in this plugin at later stage for example :

- [ ] to-do
- [/] incomplete
- [x] done
- [-] canceled
- [>] forwarded
- [<] scheduling
- [?] question
- [!] important
- [*] star
- ["] quote
- [l] location
- [b] bookmark
- [i] information
- [S] savings
- [I] idea
- [p] pros
- [c] cons
- [f] fire
- [k] key
- [w] win
- [u] up
- [d] down

But your suggestion gave a good feature idea, where user can be given the option to select what type of symbol they want to use as checkbox, and only tasks with this checkbox should be shown on the board.

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