#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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#86

I have been using obsidian in a pretty crude way for the pas 6 months to manage my life and now I am stepping it up and automating as much as possible, and I have to say, this plugin is a life saver !

I am a bit puzzled with the behavior of filters regarding due date, I don’t find a way to exclude tasks with no due dates from my queries.

I am building a dashboard note were I use queries to summarize relevant tasks for the day and I want to have a section were tasks starting today are shown, but when I do this all tasks with no start date are shown.

I am currently using tags in the description to separate those tasks, but it would really be nice to have the possibility to exclude tasks with no start dates from queries (and maybe the same for due dates and scheduled dates)

Anyway, thank you for the incredible work !