Task menu template.md

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Task menu template

There is an optional Templater template which you can assign to a hotkey, to give a handy task menu. The default hotkey is Alt+T.

The template requires two things to work:

1. The Tasks menu.md template file. This needs to be placed in your Templater Template folder location.
2. The two Templater user scripts in the Utilty/Scripts/Templater folder: _init_template.js and templater_tasks.js. These need to be placed in your Templater User Scripts folder.

Insert task

This is a quick way to add a task on any page. If the page is in reading mode, it will set the page to edit mode and then add the task at the end of the page.

If the page is in edit mode, it will add a new task where the cursor is, adding a line-break if necessary. Tasks will be added with a created date, using the Tasks plugin created date format, like this:

• Here's an example task showing a created date ➕2023-08-21

If you don't like having the date you can remove it from the template.

Insert waiting on task

This will pre-populate the new task with the #waiting-on tag:

• #waiting-on Dave to deliver the report ➕2023-08-21

Toggle somedate

Toggles the #someday tag on the current task.

Archive/Remove completed tasks

Will move all completed tasks from the current page to the 🗄️ Completed tasks page. This is especially handy for cleaning up the 📝 Next actions list.

To use this feature you will need to configure the location of the note you want to store your completed tasks. On line 5 of templater_tasks.js, change this to be the full path to your desired note:

const completedTasksNote = '01 Project management/🗄️ Completed tasks.md'