Support Minimal Theme Checklist Box Types

[robosquiggles]

Hi there!

I know this one is a large undertaking, and potentially not useful to many people who use this plugin... but it would be really cool if this plugin could support Minimal Theme's Checklist box types.

Minimal Theme is one of Obsidian's most widely used themes, and they released these alternate checkboxes, which seem like they could be very useful for planning, etc. I'd love it if at least the following were supported:

• to-do
• incomplete
• done
• canceled
• forwarded
• scheduling

Thanks for the development efforts. This is one of my favorite plugins!

[schemar]

Do you know how this is related to #520? How does the minimal theme support these other check boxes?

[Cito]

I like this idea. Another important status would be WAITING to support GTD's waiting for list, unfortunately I don't see it there. "Forwarded" is a bit similar, but not all forwarded tasks must be awaited and not all awaited tasks must be forwarded.

[claremacrae]

@Cito When I (think) I suggested you upvote related suggestions, I meant to click on the arrow at the top of the idea.

Sorry if that was unclear.

Please don't add a comment about waiting to every related discussion. Waiting will be added when status are customisable, and it just takes time away from development by having to read a load of extra emails saying this same thing...

[Cito]

Ok, sorry @claremacrae, will do so. The problem was that most of the issues (like this one) only suggested fixed lists of additional status types which did not include "waiting" - wanted to make sure this important use case for GTD is not forgotten. I agree that making it fully customizable will be the best resolution.

Btw, this could later be also used to display Kanban boards. Each status type would then correspond to one lane.

[claremacrae]

Ok, sorry @claremacrae, will do so. The problem was that most of the issues (like this one) only suggested fixed lists of additional status types which did not include "waiting" - wanted to make sure this important use case for GTD is not forgotten. I agree that making it fully customizable will be the best resolution.

Yes.

Btw, this could later be also used to display Kanban boards. Each status type would then correspond to one lane.

Interesting idea. Thanks.

[claremacrae]

I know this one is a large undertaking, and potentially not useful to many people who use this plugin... but it would be really cool if this plugin could support Minimal Theme's Checklist box types.

Yes, it was huge!

This was just released, in Tasks 1.23.0 🎉
https://github.com/obsidian-tasks-group/obsidian-tasks/releases/tag/1.23.0
See the links in that release page for copious docs and tips.

See this page and its sub-pages in the docs for how to quickly add statuses/checkboxes for all the Minimal theme checkboxes.
https://obsidian-tasks-group.github.io/obsidian-tasks/reference/status-collections/