About Getting Started.md

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About Getting Started

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Basics

• [[Installation]]
• [[Getting Started]]
  • Descriptive overview of setting up your tasks.
  • Also has a long list of known limitations.
• [[Global Filter]]
  • Optionally set a global filter so Tasks only matches specific checklist items.
  • See also [[Global Query]], which is much more powerful, once you know how searching works.
• [[Settings]]
  • A convenient list of all the Tasks plugin options.

Adding data to your tasks

• [[Dates]]
  • Record when you need to work on your tasks.
  • Track the history of your tasks.
• [[Priority]]
  • Indicate the importance of your tasks.
• [[Recurring Tasks]]
  • Use recurring tasks to easily track actions you must do regularly.
• [[Statuses]]
  • Also known as Custom Checkboxes.
  • In vanilla Obsidian tasks are either 'TODO' or 'DONE'.
  • Statuses allow you to track IN_PROGRESS, CANCELLED and NON_TASK actions too.
• [[Use Filename as Default Date]]
  • Automatically set a scheduled date for tasks based on the name of their files.
• [[Tags]]
  • Why and how to use tags to manage your tasks.

Easy editing of tasks

See [[About Editing]].