It should be possible for tasks to be notes

[ShreyasKallingal]

When creating a task, it would be useful to be able to create a new note based off of that task. The new note created based off of the task could use the "Description" as the title and add YAML properties of "due date", "status", etc.

For example:
- [ ] #task [[new task]] 📅 2021-05-02

See that "new task" is the new note, which would look something like this with the YAML attributes:

Better yet, maybe we could specify a template file for new tasks. I think this would really take this plugin to the next level, even though it's amazing as it is. Thank you!

[schemar]

Hey there, thank you for the idea. I think this would be relatively high effort and I don’t think that I would have the time to do that soon.

But maybe for the time being we can find a somewhat similar workflow that allows you to do what you want to do.

If I understand you correctly, the main goal of this is to have more details or context in a task. If you have a note, you can add any data to the task you want. Images, tables, etc.

In the current implementation, you can achieve almost the same, if I understand correctly what you want. Obsidian is based around files, so you can have files and folders as you wish. And tasks are gathered from any note to be listed in queries.
Couldn’t you - with the current implementation - create a note for a task and then simply add the task inside that note using the existing syntax (- [ ])?

Please elaborate on your needs if I didn’t understand you correctly or if you are looking for more.

[ShreyasKallingal]

I guess I would have to copy the description when making the task inside right? This workaround avoids that since all I have to is put "[[ ]]" around the description and create a new note as needed.

[schemar]

You mean you would have the description as the note title/file name and as the task description? 🤔 True. Unless you could rephrase your task when it is in side the note. When you query the task, the note name will be appended to the task in parentheses. Does that help?

[schemar]

And of course you could leave the task wherever it was and add sub-items like

- [ ] #task Some important task 📅 2021-05-05
    - More info
    - Some details
        - ...
    - And so on ...

[bkriddle]

So it works to put square brackets in the task description in the task entry pop-up; would it be easier to add auto-matching brackets in the dialogue box? Not sure if that's something that can be accessed from Obsidian's core functionality (if not, seems like it might be a heavy lift in the plugin), just thought I'd throw it out there.

[flatlines]

@ShreyasKallingal this is what I do for meetings. I'll have something like this in my Daily Notes:

• 1-1 with Shreyas 🔁 every week 📅 2021-06-01

then highlight and convert the latter piece into a note:

• 1-1 with [[Shreyas 🔁 every week 📅 2021-06-01]]

and then simply use my events template to populate that newly created note.

I would hate to have this for every task, e.g. watering the plants, by default though.

[schemar]

There is a new plugin coming from @tgrosinger: https://github.com/tgrosinger/tq-obsidian

It seems to take the task concept to the file level. Maybe check it out 😊