Recurring task without marking Done

[Joshuawe45]

Hello everyone
I am currently using task plugin for the tracking my daily habits with recurrence of every weekday as below

The problem with the current task is if I miss single day, the next day task won't be created the next day task will be created only after marking the existing task done

Eg scenario
If I forgot to do the habit on Tuesday, the task for wednesday won't be created. To fix that right now I am marking the task eventhough I didn't finish the job .Is there any way to create Recurring task without marking Done , so I can habit and find out which days I was not able to do the task

[therden]

Hi @Joshuawe45.

Do I understand correctly: you want to keep the incomplete instance and generate the next instance of a recurring task?

[JOSHUAJEBARAJ]

Hi @therden Any update on this one :)

[therden]

Hello @Joshuawe45 .

I'm not a developer, but I expect that changing Tasks so that it generates next iterations of recurring items before current instances are marked Done would entail considerable re-design and -work.

The good news is that you can get what you want using the current version of Tasks in combination with other tools to generate your daily habit-tasks.

First, create a Daily Notes template for your vault. The template should include a section with a heading like # My Habits, and below that heading list (as tasks) each of the habits you're trying to develop. Here's an example:

# My Habits
- [ ] meditate
- [ ] brush teeth
- [ ] give something away

Note: these tasks should not be assigned Due dates or Recurrence rules.

Then, each weekday, create a note (using a YYYY-MM-DD naming convention, for sorting purpose) using your Daily Notes template. (You may want to use something like the Calendar plugin for this.)

Within each Daily Note, mark the habit/tasks that you complete as per usual, and leave the others incomplete.

The following Tasks query will then show you a list of your habits, sorted by date, and showing which you did and did not complete.

```tasks
path does not include [insert the name of your daily template note]
heading includes My Habits
sort by description
sort by path
```

To later add to or pare down the habits that you want to track, just edit that section of your Daily template.

If you use other Tasks queries, you may want to add the line heading does not include My Habits to them to keep your habit-tasks out of the query results showing your other ToDo items.

[Joshuawe45]

Thanks @therden , I was end up doing the same using the daily notes plugin :). thank you very much for your help

[therden]

You're welcome @Joshuawe45 .

Could you please take a minute to mark my response as the accepted answer?

[Joshuawe45]

Hi @therden
I couldn't able to see the option for marking your response as the accepted answer , I am not sure why it is not showing to me

[therden]

Hello @Joshuawe45 .

I'm re-posting this as an 'answer' rather than a 'comment', in the hope that you'll then be able to mark it as accepted.

You can get what you want using the current version of Tasks by generating your daily habit-tasks using other Obsidian tools.

First, create a Daily Notes template for your vault. The template should include a section with a heading like # My Habits, and below that heading list (as tasks) each of the habits you're trying to develop. Here's an example:

# My Habits
- [ ] meditate
- [ ] brush teeth
- [ ] give something away

Note: these tasks should not be assigned Due dates or Recurrence rules.

Then, each weekday, create a note (using a YYYY-MM-DD naming convention, for sorting purpose) using your Daily Notes template. (You may want to use something like the Calendar plugin for this.)

Within each Daily Note, mark the habit/tasks that you complete as per usual, and leave the others incomplete.

The following Tasks query will then show you a list of your habits, sorted by date, and showing which you did and did not complete.

```tasks
path does not include [insert the name of your daily template note]
heading includes My Habits
sort by description
sort by path
```

To later add to or pare down the habits that you want to track, just edit that section of your Daily template.

If you use other Tasks queries, you may want to add the line heading does not include My Habits to them to keep your habit-tasks out of the query results showing your other ToDo items.

[schemar]

@Joshuawe45 this is currently not possible with the Tasks plugin alone and I won't be able to add it. I think @therden is right in that habit tracking can be done outside of Tasks. I also recommend a daily note with a template. Just remember to add #task or whatever global filter you have set, if any.
You could also use DataView to aggregate your habits for the week, month, etc.

[Joshuawe45]

Thank you @schemar @therden , I am marking this as done