#66

Thanks very much, @schemar, for that detailed and very clear explanation. The reason I had asked the question was scalability. I wanted to be sure that I use the plugin in a way that minimizes workload and scales well as my vault grows. I’ll probably have follow-up thoughts/questions which I’ll post here. Thanks again for a great plugin!

#67

Hi @schemar

Hope you are well,

I think I just picked up a minor bug:

When editing a task with no due information
This

  • [ ] #tasks/subtask
    becomes
  • [ ] #tasks /subtask This is a task :repeat: every week on Wednesday :date: 2021-06-30

Note the space added to #tasks/subtask which becomes #tasks /subtask

Thanks

#68

Ah, true. Tasks isn’t good at supporting sub-tags at the moment. Would you be able to open an issue on GitHub? Issues · schemar/obsidian-tasks · GitHub

That would be of great help. Thanks!

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#69

Will do. Thanks!

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#70

Hi,
I just started with Obsidan and the Tasks plugin - mindblowing and awesome. Congratulation to this plugin.
Simple beginner’s question: I can’t find find out how to write the signifier for date and recurring. Is there any shortcut?
Thanks,
Simon

#71

Hey there! You have two options:

  1. use the command to „create or edit task“ (you can bind it to a shortcut)
  2. add the Emoji from your operating system‘s emoji selector

The signifiers are simply emojis.

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#72

I just returned to Obsidian after a brief flirtation with Craft. This plug-in is awesome. Is there anyway to have task dependencies? So task 2 is available when task 1 is done?

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#73

First of all, thank you for this plugin. I am relatively new to Obsidian and appreciate the functionality the task plugin provides.

I was wondering if you had considered adding a tag support to the task queries for often-used tag combinations in tasks.

For instance, I could configure the task plugin settings to include :house::arrow_up_small: and​:house::arrow_down_small: for high-priority home and low-priority home tasks, respectively. Then when I create a task using the Create/Edit Task menu, I can easily choose from these (via a dropdown?) so that the tags are appended to the task and I can query against them.

Examples of emoticon tag combinations and a query:
2021-09-06_16h49_45

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#74

Obsidian Tasks is now at version 1.4.0! Some long-standing bugs were closed and some shiny new things were added as well!
Full release notes:

Please report any new bugs to the issue tracker :pray:

What’s new:

  • It is now possible to reverse the order of the results using for example sort by due reverse.
  • Added a section to the documentation which describes how to integrate Tasks with the obsidian reminder plugin.
  • Internal changes which will enable the CodeMirror options plugin to show task query results in preview. This is going to be cool!
  • New and Expanded Documentation at Introduction - Obsidian Tasks.
  • Add priority to tasks
  • Add scheduled date
  • Add start date
  • All dates carry over for recurring tasks
  • Add urgency as new default sort
  • Add short mode to query results

Fixed:

  • Recurrence now works as intended
  • Block links are now kept
  • Sorting by description now regards markup
  • Filtering no longer applies to the global filter
  • Spaced tasks are now rendered correctly in preview
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#75

Hey – this is going to be a dumb question, so I apologize – how do I update? Do I just reinstall?

EDIT – Answered my own question. There’s a check for updates button in obsidian settings.

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#76

Hey!

Great work on this plugin!

I was just wondering whether it might be possible to display the days remaining until a given task? This is something I have setup in my Notion workflow, and have used in other task manager applications. It really helps to visualise deadlines, etc.

#77

Do you mean like the tooltip in short mode? Should be possible. But where would you show that?

#78

Yes, exactly! I wonder if that could be added next to the date in the task itself?

I can appreciate that the view might become a little cluttered so perhaps it might be useful to include separators between the various details of the task.
Toggles in the plugin settings could be used to enable/disable different views to the user’s liking.

I’ve attached an image to demonstrate how this might look in practice below:
capture

Another suggestion would be the option to view dates in the reverse order (DD-MM-YYYY). That would be great for those of us in the EU/UK.

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#79

I guess a toggle in the settings to change this could work. Can you please add the idea to the GitHub discussions? That would help me a lot: Discussions · schemar/obsidian-tasks · GitHub

Regarding the date format, could you please comment on this (closed) PR? That would also help me a lot: support custom date format by shabegom · Pull Request #296 · schemar/obsidian-tasks · GitHub

Thank you for your input!

#80

I’m stuck on v1.3.0 and can’t update. Clicking “Update” does nothing. I’ve tried to uninstall Tasks, check that its files are deleted from the .obsidian-directory and restarted my computer. Then installed again but v1.3.0 gets installed, not 1.4.1.

Would you know how to troubleshoot this or should I rather check with the Obsidian-devs?

image

#81

Interesting. Another person had the same issue. For them it resolved „magically“: Can't upgrade to or install version 1.4.1 · Issue #389 · schemar/obsidian-tasks · GitHub

I can’t do anything from my end. I am not able to reproduce the behavior. Please keep me in the loop if you reach out to anyone else. Maybe I need to change/fix something on my end that I am not aware of.

Thanks!

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#82

Thanks. I’ve reported it as a bug here: Can't update plugin

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#83

HI @schemar - I didn’t see in the instructions or in this thread so forgive me if I’m just overlooking it. But how do I ‘see’ all my tasks in a single location. Do I need to manually create a new note titled ‘Tasks’ and they’ll magically show up? :slight_smile:

#84

The simplest way is a simple query block as shown at Queries - Obsidian Tasks. But you can also filter the query as shown in the links on that page.

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#85

Brilliant!!! Thank you. I knew I was just overlooking it somewhere. :slight_smile:

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