Just to re-iterate a little on this, but doing markup like the following:
- [k] (term:: DNA) – (definition:: deoxyribonucleic acid)
- [p] Task decoration is a pro concept!
Which using Minimal theme (and a little custom on inline fields), would render as:
This has at least the following benefits related to inline fields, and linkage in general:
- Any inline fields within a task is contained or grouped together with fields in the same task. So in the first line the term (“DNA”) is linked together with its definition. This not the case if you just put these fields in page outside of lists/tasks
- They got a simple visual marker, making them stand out just a little in the text, helping they to focus on them whether they’re term definitions, pros and cons, or other elements you’d like to focus on. In my personal vault, I use this to showcase walking trips, disc golf trips, appointments, phone calls, and what not
- They’re easily customisable through CSS, so you can add your own statuses (with icons)
- Since they’re tasks they present a direct backlink to their definitions, as all tasks do
- (With a little extra CSS, aka
pointer-events: none, you can disable the tasks status changing, whilst keeping other functionality) - (With Tasks plugin, you’re able to set up cycles of statuses which rotate within a given set. E.g. if you’ve got a workout set of statuses, you could set them up to cycle those statuses (and you can query them as that group)
- Some of the statuses provided by Minimal theme are related to BuJo (Bullet Journaling), in an electronic way. So you could easily mark tasks as to do
/, completex, cancelled-, scheduled<, and migrated>. This elevates any task organisation a lot in my opinion! - IMO they’re also not as ugly as using tags to mark the task, but you can still search for them using the
status="?"very easily.