[TW5] Category task list and Calendar plugin

[Jed Carty]

In my seemingly unending search for a task list setup that I will actually use I may have made something useful. It is a searchable task list that is divided into categories. Here is the documentation, and here is an example. I am going to be expanding it so it is more than just a task list, the example has my plans for future updates, so you can see the features I am hoping to add there.

I am going to be working on making my calendar plugin work with this task list plugin so the calendar displays start dates and due dates for tasks or the dates for other events, and maybe other stuff. Also I am hoping to use the two plugins together to make recurring events.

One of these days I will manage to get organized.

[Danielo Rodríguez]

Hello Jed,

Interesting stuff. There are some ideas I like. Do you know about this? https://github.com/roma0104/gsd5

Maybe you can share impressions.

[Jed Carty]

Yes, I had seen GSD5 before. I seem to have some very specific list of features that need to be present for something I use. I am very bad at thinking of things in terms of current/waiting/future actions and splitting things up in the way that does. GSD also seems like it is made for organizing larger groups with a defined hierarchy, which is not a situation that do well in. The tagging available in tiddlywiki is one of the largest advantages of using it to organize information for me, and it doesn't look like GSD takes advantage of it.

I need things that:
*can be visually understood
*can be displayed using multiple methods
*are easily editable
*have multiple methods for searching
*have multiple methods for organizing
*configurable amounts of information available for each item
*I can edit and extend
*has easy to use and understand configuration options

and probably many other things that I haven't figured out how to properly articulate yet. It is a lot to do with seeing things in context, I am not good at using isolated pieces of information.

None of this is anything wrong or bad about other tools. I am very picky about these things and have what are probably special requirements on things that I am able to use consistently.

I am going to stop here because it is very easy for me to start ranting about how people in general (including myself) are bad at realizing the possibilities of indexing in digital media.

[Shaw McAllan]

Hi Jed.

 

I've been using this as my task list for a week or so now...it's really good. It's much easier for me than the GTD way of things (like you, I can't do the N/F/W thing).

 

I'm curious about one thing though - if I have two task lists is there a way to display the tasks from both of them at the same time under the one "unfinished"/"finished" section?

 

Cheers,

-S

[Jed Carty]

I don't think I have any way to do that at the moment, but that is a good thing to add. I will put that on the list for the future.

[Arkady Grudzinsky]

On Sunday, May 3, 2015 at 1:11:40 PM UTC-7, Jed Carty wrote:

I am going to be working on making my calendar plugin work with this task list plugin so the calendar displays start dates and due dates for tasks or the dates for other events, and maybe other stuff.

Check this out for the date picker plugin.  This is not a "calendar plugin", but rather a date input plugin.  But it's a lot more convenient than the drop-down menus.  It can even be configured to pick the time.

Excellent one.

http://kixam.github.io/TW5-datePicker/

 

[Arkady Grudzinsky]

On Tuesday, April 26, 2016 at 8:13:32 AM UTC-7, Shaw McAllan wrote:

I'm curious about one thing though - if I have two task lists is there a way to display the tasks from both of them at the same time under the one "unfinished"/"finished" section?

You can modify the list filter:

<$list filter="[tag[New Project 1]][tag[New Project 2]]+[tag[task]!tag[done]]">

</$list>

This will show the incomplete task list from both New Project 1 and New Project 2

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[Hegart Dmishiv]

Thanks for this Arkady, I'm sure this will also come in handy in my current project, TiddlyCRM. Also, I look forward to using some of Jed's ideas in TiddlyCRM as well. There's a wealth of knowledge here, and I'm really enjoying the level of collaboration involved in the TW community.

Hegart.

[Shaw McAllan]

Thanks, Arkady.

 

:)

-S

[Jed Carty]

I am glad people are using this. Hopefully in a few weeks I will be back to updating my things regularly and the twederation things will hopefully make collaborating on creating plugins easier.