Hi!
I’ve recently been testing TaskForge and it feels very promising — I’m seriously considering purchasing the premium version.
I’d like to share some thoughts and feature requests based on my testing so far.
For context, I’m currently using the iPhone version. My workflow is currently based on a TaskNotes-style, but ideally I would like to combine both note-based tasks and inline tasks.
Below are some feature requests based on that experience.
If any of these already exist and I simply missed them, I’d really appreciate being pointed in the right direction.
1. Ability to use arbitrary properties as filter conditions
This is by far the most important feature for my workflow.
Unless I’m misunderstanding something, it seems that custom list filters cannot currently use arbitrary frontmatter properties.
Being able to use either arbitrary properties or predefined selected properties as filter conditions feels very important when considering deeper integration with Obsidian, so I would really like to see this added.
In TaskNotes, arbitrary properties can be added as custom user fields to tasks, and when managing task lists through Bases, arbitrary properties can naturally be included as filter conditions.
Personally, I would like to create a custom list that extracts tasks where a certain property (in my case, workspaces property) has a specific value, and when creating a task from that custom list, have that same property automatically assigned.
(I believe the latter behavior may already be configurable.)
2. Easier access to the custom list overview
When using a single task app to manage multiple contexts (work, hobbies, etc.), quickly switching between many custom lists becomes very important.
Currently, accessing lists requires either horizontal scrolling at the top or double-tapping the icon to open the list overview, which feels slightly cumbersome.
It would be great if the full custom list view could be opened with a single gesture — for example:
a swipe from the left edge, or
a dedicated button in the bottom toolbar
(similar to many other task management apps).
3. Global filtering for inline tasks
Right now I’m using note-based mode, but eventually I’d like to integrate inline checkbox tasks from Tasks-style notes as well.
However, I also use checkboxes for non-task purposes, so currently a large number of unrelated checkboxes appear in TaskForge, which makes the task view less practical.
Would it be possible to introduce a global filter that determines which inline checkboxes should be treated as tasks?
For example, in my case I would want something like:
only include checkboxes from notes that contain a specific property (e.g. workspaces is present and non-empty)
and exclude tasks that contain certain tags.
Thanks again for building such an interesting tool — and I’m really looking forward to the upcoming Windows version!
