Elements of a task in Noteplan 3
In Noteplan a task is a line of plain text in a Markdown file, that may look like this:
- [ ] Buy groceries for Alex
Depending on user preferences, containing notes, task states and previous interactions, a task can look very differently.
Examples
Task in a regular note. Scheduled with a date tag for April 24th. User preference is set to recognize * as tasks:
* Buy #groceries for @alex >2021-04-24
Task in daily note 20210423.md that was rescheduled from April 23rd to April 24th:
- [>] Buy #groceries for @alex >2021-04-24
Task in daily note 20210424.md that was rescheduled from April 23rd to April 24th and completed on April 25th.
- [x] Buy #groceries for @alex <2021-04-23 @done(2021-04-25)
Elements
Two kinds of notes
YYYYMMDD.md |
day notes, daily notes |
foobar.md |
regular notes, general notes |
Five task states
- |
inactive, non-task |
- [ ] |
active, open, undone |
- [x] |
completed, done |
- [-] |
canceled, not to be done |
- [>] |
rescheduled, postponed |
Appended date and time
>YYYY-MM-DD |
date tag* | only regular notes |
@done(YYYY-MM-DD) |
date stamp | only manual edit |
@done(YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm) |
time stamp |
*: do not confuse with link (see below)
Link to notes
[[YYYY-MM-DD]] |
link to day note | only manual edit |
[[foobar]] |
link to a regular note | only manual edit |
>YYYY-MM-DD |
link* to day note with target copy of a rescheduled task |
only day note |
<YYYY-MM-DD |
link to day note with source copy of a rescheduled task |
only day note |
*: do not confuse with date tag (see above)
Tags
#foo |
hashtags |
@bar |
mentions |
>YYYY-MM-DD |
date tag* |
*: only in regular notes (see above)
Configurable syntax
Recognize -, *, 1. as active tasks instead of non-tasks. Use * as default instead of - to render task states. A combination of both could create these task states:
- |
inactive, non-task |
* |
active, open, undone |
* [x] |
completed, done |
* [-] |
canceled, not to be done |
* [>] |
rescheduled, postponed |