Example of 'scheduled' and 'start' usage?

[notflip]

Does anyone have an example of a good way of using the 'scheduled' and 'start' fields? I'm loving the plugin but at the moment I'm only using the due date in my template.

[schemar]

Hey @notflip,

did you read the documentation at https://schemar.github.io/obsidian-tasks/getting-started/dates/? Are you looking for concrete examples? Or maybe you have concrete questions?

[therden]

Hello @notflip.

When I have a task that will take more than one day from start to completion, I set a Scheduled date to mark when I have to commence working on it in order to finish by its Due date. Including the line scheduled before tomorrow in a Tasks query block will return only tasks that have a Scheduled date of today or earlier -- the tasks that I should be working on now even though they are not yet Due.

I don't use Start dates, but assigning one functions as a kind of "can't start this task sooner than" flag. Including the line start before tomorrow in a Tasks query block will return all tasks that have a Start date of today or earlier and also all tasks that don't have a Start date assigned.

Does that help?

[notflip]

That's a very good example, thank you

[Y-a-n-i-n-a]

Hi, I see this is already answered, but since I use the Start functionality, I thought I'd share.

I track the stuff that went to other people. I tag them with #follow-up, assign the start date for when I have sent the request, and my daily note has this query to identify stuff that I need to nudge people about.

description includes #follow-up 
starts before one week ago
not done
sort by start date

[therden]

Hi @Y-a-n-i-n-a, I really like your idea of using the Start field to track what David Allen calls Delegated tasks, and am going to adopt it now myself.

Thank you for sharing!