time and notification support

[imeed166]

i have mac os, and i would like to add a time to the task and have it notify me when it is due, with a button to complete if it's possible, thank you.

[wenlzhang]

Here is a related discussion:
Add optional time in addition to date to "due" · Discussion #64 · schemar/obsidian-tasks

[schemar]

In that discussion, @wenlzhang mentions another plugin that does notifications:
https://github.com/uphy/obsidian-reminder

I assume that one can be used together with Tasks to support notifications? 🤔

[imeed166]

Yes, but I would have to add 2 different due dates for the same task as the 2 plugins don't share the same format.
Also, the author of this plugin still needs to add a setting screen for it to work uphy/obsidian-reminder#5, maybe on next release.

[imeed166]

I'm not planning on using the 2 plugins together anyway, the type of tasks that needs notifications aren't the ones that I used "obsidian-tasks" for. I was just requesting the same feature on multiple related plugins to see which one sticks. Though, It would be nice to have them working together.

[liambresnahan]

I would also like to see a notification added to obsidian-tasks. Personally I believe that having a task management system without a notification option is quite lacking. Using obsidian-reminder would be fine if they shared the same date format but having to use two different date formats on the same task seems overly complex. Is there a possibility to implement the functionality directly?

[liambresnahan]

If you enable the first setting with the distinguish between reminder date and due date then you'll have the reminder on the due date directly. However, given that the due date doesn't include a due time, the reminder will appear (by default) at 9am (defined in the reminder plugin settings). You can check the reminder plugin guide.

Right, I'll add this to the documentation when I think it through also, it'll be a good call out to link to the Reminder Plugin guide as you do above. Thanks

I don't think it's really necessary, given that you can accomplish the same feature with a Quickadd command. If you're interested, I have made 3 commands

the recurring task with reminder is formatted like this

of course, one is without the recurrence emoji and the other without the reminder emoji

I have however requested a better support for reminder plugin when completing recurring task, check this discussion.

This is all very interesting, I'll dig on the info you have above and if needed comment back. Thanks very much for sharing it.

[imeed166]

Happy to help, and sorry that I didn't add the right link for reminder plugin's guide, I just updated it.

[wenlzhang]

In addition to the QuickAdd plugin, one may also use the text expander espanso to define rules for quickly inserting tasks and/or reminders.
federico-terzi/espanso: Cross-platform Text Expander written in Rust

[liambresnahan]

thanks @imeed166 and @wenlzhang !

Just submitted a quick doc based PR - #353

[schemar]

Thank you all for the discussion and the update to the documentation @imeed166, @liambresnahan, @wenlzhang! I really appreciate it. The new documentation even got its own section: https://schemar.github.io/obsidian-tasks/5_notifications/notifications/

I may expand it if I have the time.

[visrosa]

Could you maybe add a note about the specific syntax when using both plugins together? I just spent a few hours trying to wrangle them to work together and it turns out you have to have the recurrence rule exactly in between the custom alarm emoji datetime and the calendar emoji time.

This is the only way to have a recurrent reminder at a specific time. It would be really nice if I could just directly add a time component to main task date and have Tasks delegate that to reminder plugin if it's available or just silently ignore it like it already does if it's not.

[schemar]

Thank you for the feedback. Would you be willing to update the documentation? I don't use the notification plugin at the moment. You would need to update this file:
https://github.com/schemar/obsidian-tasks/blob/main/docs/advanced/notifications.md

Thank you! If you don't have the time, maybe someone else can support?

[imeed166]

I'm currently using the reminder plugin, this is what @visrosa wanted to add 0dd1b39
And do you think it would be beneficial to add how to use quickadd to add the different types of tasks that I mentioned above, to the documentation ? @schemar

[schemar]

I'm currently using the reminder plugin, this is what @visrosa wanted to add 0dd1b39

Nice 👍

And do you think it would be beneficial to add how to use quickadd to add the different types of tasks that I mentioned above, to the documentation ?

Not sure what you mean. Can you please elaborate?

[schemar]

Ah, get it. Nice. I think that would be very helpful on a separate page that explains integration with the quick add plugin.

[imeed166]

Alright, I'll create a new file for it under the advanced folder.

[imeed166]

done a21e22f

[schemar]

Thank you @imeed166! Can you please open a pull request? That would be much easier for me to review 😄 Let me know if you need any help.

[imeed166]

Okay, I just opened one.

[claremacrae]

We will at some point allow dates to have optional times - and there are other requests for that.

However, we will not add built-in notification support to Tasks.

This request falls within a set of areas that we have decided not to support in Tasks.

• Document that time-tracking, productivity tracking, pomodoros, notifications etc are out-of-scope for this plugin #2721

Closing as wontfix.