toggle should cycle TODO DONE and unmarked

[PeterTheobald]

The toggle hot-key (recommended to override ctrl-ENTER) should toggle between

• TODO
• DONE
• Unmarked

Just as the built-in toggle does and org-mode does. That eliminates the need for a separate 'create todo' hotkey.

[claremacrae]

Just to set expectations: I wanted to note that ORG MODE is not likely to be a priority for the Tasks plugin for the foreseeable future.

There are many, many good requests for improvements to things which are core to its current purpose of managing Tasks using variants of Obsidian's - [ ] format for tasks - and I would rather spend volunteer time on core features that fill in gaps and fix bugs for its current users.

I am therefore marking this as 'status: wontfix'.

[claremacrae]

I think I misunderstood this because of the reference to org-mode.

Removed 'status: wontfix'

[tomngo]

In my case, I most frequently use TO DO, DONE, Blocked, and Sent. Others may have a different set of favorite statuses. I'd love for the hotkey to toggle between my favorites.

[claremacrae]

This has actually been doable via custom statuses for quite some time.

Of course, Tasks has no idea what you want your sequence to be, so you need to use the Settings to teach it what you want.

There are examples here: Example Statuses - and it links to the rest of the docs, for you to understand the mechanism and set it up.

I've just tested it with this loop of statuses 1->2->3->4->1, and the Tasks: Toggle task done does indeed go through that cycle repeatedly.

flowchart LR

classDef TODO        stroke:#f33,stroke-width:3px;
classDef DONE        stroke:#0c0,stroke-width:3px;
classDef IN_PROGRESS stroke:#fa0,stroke-width:3px;
classDef CANCELLED   stroke:#ddd,stroke-width:3px;
classDef NON_TASK    stroke:#99e,stroke-width:3px;

13["'1'<br>[1] -> [2]<br>(TODO)"]:::TODO
14["'2'<br>[2] -> [3]<br>(IN_PROGRESS)"]:::IN_PROGRESS
15["'3'<br>[3] -> [4]<br>(DONE)"]:::DONE
16["'4'<br>[4] -> [1]<br>(CANCELLED)"]:::CANCELLED
13 --> 14
14 --> 15
15 --> 16
15-. "🔁" .-> 13
16 --> 13

linkStyle default stroke:gray

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[tomngo]

This is really lovely! You've changed my life (in a small way, but none the less real). Thank you.

[claremacrae]

Wow, I'm so pleased to hear that. Thank you!