Schedule task for today keyboard shortcut

[louwers]

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🔖 Feature description

I am aware of the Auto-suggest feature, but I don't like using it, because it highjacks the down arrow.

I would like to go through a list of tasks quickly and schedule a certain task for today with a keyboard shortcut.

✔️ Solution

A shortcut that sets the scheduled day to today on the task that is currently selected.

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[claremacrae]

Nice idea. Thank you.

I guess there would need to be shortcuts for setting Due and Start dates too.

[louwers]

I have a custom command right now that is a bit hacky.

If a task is already done and it is scheduled, I also set it as "todo". This way I can easily manually schedule recurring tasks.

editor.setCursor(getLineEndPos(editor.getCursor().line, editor));
const currentLine = () => editor.getLine(editor.getCursor().line);
const scheduledPattern = / ⏳ \d\d\d\d-\d\d-\d\d/;

const donePattern = /^- \[x\]/;

if (isScheduled() && isDone()) {
    unschedule();
    setTodo();
    schedule();
} else if (isScheduled()) {
    unschedule();
} else {
    unschedule();
    schedule();
}

function isDone() {
    return currentLine().match(donePattern);
}

function replace(pattern: RegExp, withThis: string) {
    const currentLine = editor.getLine(editor.getCursor().line);
    const newLine = currentLine.replace(pattern, withThis);
    editor.replaceRange(
        newLine,
        {
            ch: 0,
            line: editor.getCursor().line,
        },
        getLineEndPos(editor.getCursor().line, editor),
    );
}

function isScheduled() {
    return currentLine().match(scheduledPattern);
}

if (isScheduled()) {
    return;
}

function setTodo() {
    replace(donePattern, "- [ ]");
}

function schedule() {
    editor.replaceRange(
        `${
            currentLine()[currentLine().length - 1] === " " ? "" : " "
        }⏳ ${moment().format("YYYY-MM-DD")}`,
        editor.getCursor(),
    );
}

function unschedule() {
    replace(scheduledPattern, " ");
}

[claremacrae]

@louwers, wow. Thank you. Please could you share the steps needed to use the code above?

[louwers]

Maybe I will try to submit a pull request.

The above code is wrapped in a

        this.addCommand({
            id: "schedule-task-today",
            name: "Schedule Task Today",
            editorCallback: (editor: Editor) => {

call and uses this helper function

export const getLineEndPos = (
    line: number,
    editor: Editor,
): EditorPosition => ({
    line,
    ch: editor.getLine(line).length,
});

But this code is quite hacky as I have said, so I would hold off intergrating it.

[claremacrae]

Oh right, thanks - so if I now understand correctly, it’s a modification to the Tasks code itself?

[louwers]

I created a separate plugin (that is why I am using regex and not the API of the plugin).