Custom checkboxes and supporting alternate task states

[melmaninga]

Would love it if it could handle multiple states. With my old-school analog way of task management, I use symbols to give me a feeling of traction. I realise this can be handled by tags, with a css snippet it would make my Cardboard so much more visual and a perfect replica of my analog method.

- [ ] Unchecked
- [+] In Progress
- [?] Need More Info
- [>] Scheduled / Deferred / Delegated
- [!] Important
- [x] Completed

[roovo]

I thought I already had an issue for this, but I don't seem to (there is a discussion tho #66) sop thank you for adding. I would defo like to support this - as I see that some themes support this concept too.

After I've finished off my current few items I will be working on drag and drop, so it will be a while before I get to this but I am tagging it as accepted and needing some thought (as I will need to ensure that I will be compatible with themes).

Many thanks. I'll keep this issue updated as there is any progress or with any related thoughts I have before I get to working on it.

[roovo]

as mentioned in #130 - some support for this is in hand in the Tasks plugin:

• Test build of Tasks with custom status support - for testing and feedback
• Project: Custom Statuses for Tasks Plugin

[roovo]

From discord:

ClareMacrae — Yesterday at 23:03 I'm aware of the following themes and snippets for custom checkboxes in Obsidian: Minimal Theme: https://minimal.guide/Block+types/Checklists

ITS Theme: https://github.com/SlRvb/Obsidian--ITS-Theme/tree/main

SlRvb's Alternate Checkboxes snippet - same options as ITS Theme... https://github.com/SlRvb/Obsidian--ITS-Theme/blob/main/Guide/Alternate-Checkboxes.md

Are there any other commonly-used ones I should know about?

ypsyav — Today at 00:00 the AnuPpuccin theme has alternate checkboxes.

ClareMacrae — Today at 00:03 Ah interesting. Thank you. That references the Primary theme, whose custom checkboxes I was also unaware of. https://github.com/ceciliamay/obsidianmd-theme-primary#-alternative-checkboxes This is really useful @gypsyav - thank you! Oddly Primary does not show up as available on my Phone. efemkay — Today at 00:53 i believe if you don't already have it installed, primary theme won't show up in community theme search. it's still in "legacy" mode, not yet updated for obsidian v1 https://github.com/AnubisNekhet/AnuPpuccin

A S H⚡ — Today at 10:35

A S H⚡ — Today at 10:52 here Aura custom checkboxes

- [ ] incomplete
- [x] `x` complete / done
- [-] `-` cancelled 
- [>] `>` deferred
- [/] `/` for in progress, or half-done
- [!] `!` for Important
- [?] `?` for question
- [R] `R` for review
- [+] `+` Inbox / task that should be processed later
- [b] `b` bookmark 
- [B] `B` brainstorm
- [D] `D` deferred or scheduled
- [I] `I` for Info
- [i] `i` for idea
- [N] `N` for note
- [Q] `Q` for quote
- [W] `W` for win / success / reward 
- [P] `P` for pro
- [C] `C` for con

my theme Aura also has an option for custom checkboxes https://github.com/ashwinjadhav818/obsidian-aura

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[ltroj]

It would be great if CardBoard supported custom statuses because atm adding a custom status to a task removes it from the Boards since the task is not recognized as such anymore.

[roovo]

Yeah - I may well bump this up the stack as this is prob happening for a few people now that Tasks supports these. I would prob prioritize reading them so they appear on the boards with theme custom checkboxes and leave being able to change the state to a later release - as I don't want to minimize the other work I take on whilst I get the drag and drop stuff out of the way.

[Bjaux]

@roovo also it seems to me that changing the state would maybe greatly build upon the drag'n drop stuff. If that is done we could have a "new" board type by custom checkbox status, where dragging and droping would simply change the checkbox (aka Kanban-Board) :)

[roovo]

see also: #66