Easily creating a default tasks code block with 'Codeblock Completer'

[claremacrae]

Summary

There is an unpublished plugin that I find really useful for creating tasks code blocks.

Codeblock Completer
https://github.com/SkepticMystic/codeblock-completer

It's not in the official plugin list, so as of December 2022 you would need to add it via BRAT.

A small thing is that as you type the three backticks and then start typing ta it will auto-complete to tasks.

A bigger thing is that it allows you to create templates for code blocks. This is really helpful for tasks code blocks

My tasks template

This screenshot shows the bit of my Codeblock Completer settings where I have created this template for all my new tasks code blocks:

So every new tasks code block looks like this:

```tasks
not done
path regex does not match /^_templates/
path regex does not match /^_meta/
limit 100
# group by happens
```

Example reasons for using it

Here are a couple of the reasons you might use the Codeblock Completer plugin.

Repetition: Often typing the same tasks instructions

If you find you use the same tasks instructions in many queries, then use Codeblock Completer to add them automatically.

Any that you don't want to use all the time can be commented out with a # in the template, and then easily un-commented in the code block if you want to use them.

Performance: Empty tasks block renders hundreds of tasks, making editing really slow

Normally, every time you create a new tasks block, you start with this:

```tasks
```

If you have a Live Preview or Reading view open on that note, it will immediately render every task in your vault. For me that is 6,000 tasks (mostly done). It takes a loooong time to render them, and I cannot start editing my new tasks block until that happened. I used to force-quit Obsidian on my Mac every time this happened. Really annoying.

This is solved by adding a limit instruction to your Codeblock Completer template for tasks blocks.

```tasks
not done
limit 100
```

Acknowledgements

Thanks to @SkepticMystic for this very helpful plugin.