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Task management for the Obsidian knowledge base.

7.1.0

1 week ago

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🌟 Edit Task modal usability improved

We will improve the layout for mobile-phones and other smaller screens in a future release.

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7.0.0

4 weeks ago

What's Changed

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Breaking change

⚠️ Important This release is number 7.0.0 because significant improvements to the Boolean code required a tiny breaking change, to a feature that we expect was hardly used.

Any Boolean filters with mixed delimiters, like this, will now give an error:

(not done) AND "is recurring"

They must be changed to use consistent delimiters. Example fixed lines:

(not done) AND (is recurring)
"not done" AND "is recurring"

See Breaking Changes for full details of these changes.

Boolean filters radically improved

Boolean filters can now contain parentheses - (....)- and double quotes - " - so long as the sub-expressions do not end with any closing delimiters.

The Troubleshooting Boolean Filters guide shows patterns to use, to get any Boolean filter to work now, however complex.

Breaking change:

New features:

Bug fixes:

Documentation: Combining Filters - Tasks User Guide - Obsidian Publish

Main changes

Here are the other most notable user-visible changes.

🌟 Features

📖 Documentation

🛠️ Behind the scenes

Improvements made to new features prior to their release:

Other changes:

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6.2.0

1 month ago

What's Changed

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🌟 Features

Below: The original layout of line continuations is now shown in explain output:

Below: The original text of placeholders is now shown in explain output:

🛠️ Behind the scenes

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6.1.2

2 months ago

What's Changed

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💪 Fixes

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6.1.1

2 months ago

What's Changed

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💪 Fixes

Fix the handling of invisible Variant Selector 16 characters on ⛔ and priority emojis.

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6.1.0

2 months ago

What's Changed

🌟 Most Notable

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🌟 New team member: Ilyas Landikov

I'm delighted to announce that @ilandikov - Ilyas Landikov - has joined me as a core contributor to the Tasks plugin.

He has been working tirelessly behind the scenes for the last year, and it really helps to have somebody to discuss ideas and issues with, and to help improve the visible and hidden quality of the code and its tests.

Thank you Ilyas, and a warm welcome!

🌟 Edit Task modal status-editing is fixed

Editing task statuses via the modal now correctly updates Done and Cancelled dates, and creates the next task when completing a recurring task.

Thanks to @ilandikov for invaluable help writing the first test for this.

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🌟 Task Dependencies facility - thank you @DanielTMolloy919!

The Tasks plugin now allows for 'Finish to start (FS)' dependencies, meaning Task A needs to be finished before you start on Task B. You can learn more about this concept on Wikipedia.

  • User Documentation: Task Dependencies
  • Below: Documentation sample: Editing Dependencies image
  • Below: Documentation sample: Search Concepts for Dependencies image

Main changes

Here are the most notable user-visible changes.

🌟 Features

💪 Fixes

📖 Documentation

User documentation:

Contributing guide:

🛠️ Dependencies

🛠️ Behind the scenes

Improvements made to new features prior to their release:

Other changes:

New Contributors

Full Changelog (including changes too small to note above, and that do not affect the behaviour of the plugin itself):

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6.0.0

3 months ago

What's Changed

🌟 Most Notable

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⚠️ Important This release is number 6.0.0 because of significant improvements to:

  • the default sort order
  • how invalid dates are handled
  • styling of the Pencil and Postpone buttons (thank you @Cito)

See Breaking Changes for full details of these changes.

Here are the most notable user-visible changes.

🌟 Features

Examples:

sort by function task.tags.filter( (tag) => tag.includes("#context/")).sort().join(",")
  • Sort by tags that contain #context/.
  • Any tasks without that tag are sorted first.
sort by function reverse task.tags.length
  • Sort by the number of tags on the task.
  • The reverse option puts tasks with the most tags first.
sort by function task.file.path === query.file.path
  • Tasks in the same file as the query will be sorted before all other tasks.
sort by function task.description.length
  • Sort by length of description, shortest first.

Commits:

💪 Fixes

⚠️ Important The following are all improvements to existing behaviour that may change the sorting and grouping of search results. See Breaking Changes for full details.

Better handling of invalid dates:

🛠️ Behind the scenes

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5.6.0

4 months ago

What's Changed

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🌟 Features

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📖 Documentation

  • Update example in markdown by @github-actions in https://github.com/obsidian-tasks-group/obsidian-tasks/pull/2559
  • Add Tags page to 'About Getting Started' by @claremacrae in 604b7076132eceac8773dd34a928f8c413ddbd52
  • Show features of earlier releases in a callout by @claremacrae in 254ad99cb6ee2b3345537de9d9190e5d2b4d0c9e
  • Group the list of release features by version, for readability by @claremacrae in 687f0e67271de0ccabd896b4805f6acb6804aad4

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5.5.0

4 months ago

What's Changed

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🌟 Most Notable

Here are the most notable user-visible changes.

  • 🌟 New cancelled date field added
    • - [-] take out the trash ❌ 2023-04-18
    • - [-] take out the trash [cancelled:: 2023-04-18]
    • It's enabled in settings by default - and can be turned off.
    • It's added automatically via all of the following, when the next status type is CANCELLED:
      • Toggling tasks with mouse
      • Running the 'Tasks: Toggle task done' command
      • 'Change task status' context menu
    • The value can be edited in the Edit task modal.
    • Tasks already supports filtering, sorting and grouping by cancelled date.
    • Docs - for the field - which links to filter, sort and group docs too.
    • Find tasks with potentially invalid data updated for created and other recently added fields.
  • 🌟 Edit task Modal improvements
    • created, done and cancelled dates can all now be edited.
    • There is now a warning displayed, about limitations of changing status in the modal.
    • On small screens, the Apply and Cancel buttons are now always visible. Thank you @DanielTMolloy919. image

🌟 Features

💪 Fixes

🛠️ Dependencies

🛠️ Behind the scenes

Full Changelog (including changes too small to note above, and that do not affect the behaviour of the plugin itself):

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5.4.0

4 months ago

What's Changed

🌟 Most Notable

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Here are the most notable user-visible changes.

🌟 Features

💪 Fixes

📖 Documentation

🛠️ Behind the scenes

New Contributors

Full Changelog (including changes too small to note above, and that do not affect the behaviour of the plugin itself):

  • <https://github.com/obsidian-tasks-group/obsidian-tasks/compare/5.3.0...5.4.0

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