Ill keep this description short, because there are too many features and enhancements to talk about in this version. But I think the section which will instantly grab your attention is the “Experimental Features section”, especially the Unique Kanban Swimlanes feature. These were the reason why it took a little too long to release this version. Next version will be released sooner if there are no issues in the experimental features.
New Features
Custom statuses : A new setting section to configure custom statues their mapped actions and other configurations. Or import from Tasks plugin.
All pending tasks : A new type of column, All pending tasks, to handle all the filtering part inside the Advanced column filtering. Now the things are possible with advanced column filters which were not possible earlier with other column types.
Duplicate boards to create new boards with ease.
A new setting to change the task card style : Emoji style and Bases card style.
A new way of selectively showing/hiding specific property inside the task card, inspired from bases design.
Work limit : Set work limit to few column types and get alerts on exceeding the limit.
Two new settings to automatically populate completion date and cancelled date when task status changes.
Drag and re-arrange child tasks inside Add or Edit task modal to change the work order.
Log manager : Task Board will now store logs like errors and warnings in a log file for future debugging. And a button in setting to export the logs.
Auto scan the externally modified files : Any files modified externally (sync or editor) will be automatically picked up.
True Real-time mode : A new setting to select the scanning mode type. “Real-time” mode will scan changes instantly.
Experimental Features
Drag and drop cards from one column to another.
Manual order sorting : Change the order of the tasks with in a column by drag and drop.
Kanban Swimlanes with two different UI formats.
Please read the Release notes to know what has been added, removed and changed : Task Board v1.9.0
Hi, plugin really looks great, but I don’t know whether I got the filtering right, because it shows me every todo in every file, even if I only scan one dedicated file?! in the task scan I can see all files and not only the one I want. Or are my settings are wrong?
Based on the settings, it looks like Task Board should now only scan the single file, ToDos/ToDos.md. I hope you have re-scanned the whole vault from the top right corner button in the board. This will re-build the whole cache inside the plugin, so all the other note’s tasks are removed from the cache.
The option provided for each note in the file menu, “Scan tasks from this file”, is simply to scan the note again, incase it wasnt scanned properly by Obsidian. But to re-build the cache, will need to re-scan the vault.
If the re-scanning didnt solved the issue, that means, there is some issue here. It will be a great help, if you can re-produce this issue in a test vault and send the test vault as zip, either here or on the GitHub ticket.
The most requested feature is here : “Drag-n-Drop tasks”. Not only that but this version also have a very interesting feature, Advanced Kanban Swimlanes. This is a very useful feature of the Kanban Methodology and Task Board has implemented it with its unique twist using two concepts, “Custom Swimlanes” and “Aggregator swimlane”. Read the docs to learn more about them.
New Features
Drag and drop cards : Moving cards from one column to another will change/add the specific property on the task automatically. Make sure to have a consistent workflow to avoid any confusion while moving a task from two different types of columns.
Kanban Swimlanes : With two different kinds of UIs, this plugin has its own unique flavor to this feature, maybe one of its kind, so you can configure the Swimlane view as per your workflow, the way you want. The three features which makes Swimlanes unique in Task Board are :
Custom sorting
Aggregator swimlane
Exclude columns
Task card menu : A right-click menu to easily change any specific property of the task.
Custom date formats : This plugin now uses the date-fns library for all date related calculations, which means, now you can use your custom date formats for all the date specific properties.
Deprecated
Task Board will now going to only scan the checkbox items which are configured inside the “Custom statuses” setting. Please, configure all the checkbox symbols which you want this plugin to scan.
The tag colors will no longer going to be reduced to 20% opacity while applying it to the card background. This will help to see the colors you are expecting on your board.
sidian, but I recently decided it was time to up my task game. Taskboard quickly became a hot contender for my setup, so I wanted to start by saying a huge thank you for your hard work! Free, community-driven tools like this make Obsidian truly special.
I have two quick questions regarding UI layout and filter options:
Card Density & Text Wrapping: On a standard office (1080p) display, the cards, headers, and text feel quite large, making it hard to fit enough tasks on screen for a clean overview or to even efficiently move them around. I had my font size at 14. Even with my global font size set to 10, cards were smaller but still quite bulky. At the same time there is so much free space left? It would help immensely if task titles didn’t auto-wrap into 5–6 short lines. Are there any ways to allow adjusting column widths, toggling text auto-wrap, or configuring card scaling directly in the settings? I couldnt find any? (Attached a screenshot for context!)
Boolean Filter Logic: Is it planned to support basic Boolean logic for column conditions (e.g., #Tag1 AND #Tag2 NOT #Tag3)? That would make working with tags 2x as useful as it is now and provide flexibility for custom tag workflows.
Thanks again for all your time and effort building this for the community. Looking forward to your thoughts!
Actually, I have been offline for a while now and I have halt the development of this project for sometime as I have got caught up with life right now…
But since this topic has been moved at the top of the list now, let me provide the answers to you questions and also the status of this project…
This is possible using the setting “Width of task card”, as shown in the below image :
Additionally, the font should auto-resize when you will resize the font inside a note. I have kept the font on Task Board a slightly smaller compared to the font inside an editor, but in future will improve as per suggestions. Also, the height of swimlanes can be adjusted in the corresponding settings.
This is also possible at present, but you will need to add separate three filters and club all them together using the AND boolean logic. Something like this :
The next major version of Task Board (Task Board 2.0) is completely ready, it will take me few more weeks to get back to this project, so that when I will release the next version, I will have time to fix any new issues which will be faced by the users.
