An Obsidian plugin to change task status and append text with hotkeys and right-click context menu.
- Create tasks
- Mark list items with
[ ] - Optionally append text such as
📝 2023-01-01
- Mark list items with
- Complete and cancel tasks
- Mark tasks with
[x]and[-] - Optionally append text such as
✅ 2023-01-01
- Mark tasks with
- Mark tasks
- Mark tasks with statuses such as
[>]and[/] - Mark individual task statuses with hotkeys
- Optionally append text such as
❎ 2023-01-01
- Mark tasks with statuses such as
- Cycle tasks
- Cycle among configured statuses such as
[x],[-],[>]and[/] - Reversely cycle among configured statuses
- Include list item as the first cycled status 📝 2023-11-06
- A toggle is added for selecting whether to include the list item as the first cycled status or not.
- Cycle among configured statuses such as
- Cycle tasks among additional lists of statuses 📝 2023-11-04
- E.g., list 1
x->/for task execution status - E.g., list 2
?!biIfor task importance - E.g., list 3
pcudfor task pro/con/up/down
- E.g., list 1
- Append text
- Command to append text such as
📝 2023-01-01to any line - Command to append text such as
✅ 2023-01-01to any line - Command to append text such as
❎ 2023-01-01to any line
- Command to append text such as
- Append text automatically 📝 2023-03-04
- Automatically append text according to task/line status
- Support operating on items that start with
-+*📝 2023-07-24 - Retain cursor location when operating on tasks 📝 2023-11-07
- The cursor location is set with respect to text, excluding item/task prefix.
- The behaviour is the same as the default Obsidian command
Cycle bullet/checkbox.
See Usage for details.
Task Marker uses moment.js to format the date and time to be appended. In addition, square brackets are needed to surround the content that is not part of the format string.
- For example, if
[completion::2023-01-01]is the desired text to be appended, then[[completion::]YYYY-MM-DD[]]needs to be configured in settings.
See Setting for more detailed settings.
Install the plugin from the Obsidian Community Plugins store:
- Go to
Settings > Community pluginsand disable "Restricted mode" - Click "Browse" to search for plugins and type "task marker"
- Select Task Marker and click "Install"
- Enable Task Marker and configure it as desired
See Resource for details.
You can see how this plugin is developed starting from scratch as follows:
- Obsidian: Task Collector
- This plugin serves as a starting template.
