I find myself wanting multiple choice (radio lists) in my daily task lists. I used nested task lists, but they’re visually deceptive because the selected choice is de-emphasized. Here’s an example:
There have been proposals asking for radio lists using - ( ) and - (x) in GitHub and GitLab. Mockup for Obsidian (syntax and faked rendering using input elements):
The complication is that radio inputs must share a common name across the group, so a plugin will need to generate one for each list and use that in the HTML rendering. I searched this forum and the community plugins and didn’t find an existing solution.
As a current workaround, maybe I can use tasks with [_] and [*] and custom CSS styling to represent radio states, with the ToggleList plugin to use them, but selecting a choice won’t auto de-select all others in the group, so a dedicated plugin will be nicer.
Interesting idea, and I do find myself in a similar situation every now and then, but I end up ticking of the other boxes. Either as completed, or using alternate statues. I’m often in source mode so I just add them manually, but I recently started using Tasks’s context menu to change some, or various plugins.
Another workaround that I sometime use is to not have the sublist as tasks. The task is the main question of “where to go”, and by its wording, it’s a given that the following list is the alternatives. This can then be extended to assigning a custom task status to only the one you actually chose as the given alternative.
