How do you structure tasks with additional notes

[Cito]

How do you enter your tasks in Markdown?

As list?

## heading
- [ ] #task Task 1
- [ ] #task Task 2
- [ ] #task Task 3

The advantage of this style is its simplicity and that the dash is used for items in an unordered list as it's intended to be used in Markdown.

The disadvantage here is that it stops looking so clearly arranged when you add more notes for one tasks, plus you then need to indent such additional notes to keep the structure of the list.

Also, you cannot jump to a task directly from the task view - see #168. When the list is long, this becomes a problem.

Or individually?

- [ ] #task Task 1

More info describing task 1.

- [ ] #task Task 2

More info describing task 2.

The advantage here is that you don't need to indent the additional information.

The disadvantage is that it is not very structured, and you cannot fold individual tasks.

Or individually with headings?

## Task 1
- [ ] #task Task 1

More info describing task 1.

## Task 2
- [ ] #task Task 2

More info describing task 2.

The advantage is that each task is clearly separated and appears in the outline, and you can link to the heading.

The disadvantage here is that it needs more typing and there is duplication between the task heading and the task itself, which usually have the same text.

Any other styles?

Any other ways to structure the tasks that I have overlooked?

Looking forward to some feedback from you all!

[OogieM]

I'm only just exploring tasks as an option for me. What I do is

• [ ] #tasks Task Title [[Link to note with details]]

I don't normally have much in the way of details in the task itself, they are usually much larger than I wna to tclutter my view with.

[Cito]

Yes, that works. However, you then have the actual task and the notes (usually the project that the task belongs to) in separate files. I prefer to add the tasks to the file of the projects where they belong and rely on the feature that tasks are collected from all pages in the vault.

[OogieM]

I originally had my project notes separate from my task manger so that was how I linked htings. Moving into Obsidian U can see how the tasks in the project note itself would be easier to hand;e I've just never had a tool that supports that easily. I'm looking at both Tasks and Dataview but each has their own differnet ideas on how to handle the tasks use case. Still playing with options...