Multiple "task" sets with their own global filter (e.g. #work, #personal, #groceries)

[illchangethislater]

My wife and I make extensive use of this plugin in our shared planning vault to track our tasks, our grocery list, our prayer lists (shared and individual), and "agenda items" - things we'd like to make sure and discuss in our weekly check-in date.

To do all this, we use tag filters. For example, #agenda will filter into our next weekly check-in note, #my_wifes_name #prayer will filter into my wife's personal prayer note, and #shopping #costco will filter into the Costco section of our shared grocery list note.

However two (very small) complaints are:

1. Typing all the tags is tedious
2. There is no validation to prevent spelling errors leading to missing items.
3. There appears to be no way to hide tags in the query results (other than the global filter). Thus, in the Costco section of our grocery list, things get unnecessarily cluttered with #shopping #coscto

One solution may be to allow the user to define multiple global filters, one for each object they would like to use this plugin to track. The global filter for a given task may then be chosen via a dropdown field in the 'Create or edit Task' modal.

To take it a step further, the dropdown could allow for multiple selection, which would enable the user to use global filters for overlapping categories. For example, with a single selection dropdown, my global filters would be limited to #todo, #shopping, #prayer, #agenda. However, with multiple selection, I could add #my_name and #my_wifes_name to this list of global filters.

In this scheme, the user could

1. quickly select relevant filters,
2. be assured the filters are correct, and
3. have the option to hide all filters in their query results

Thanks for the great plugin!

[claremacrae]

Hello @illchangethislater Thank you for the clear description and good ideas.

We are quite a long way from being able to do what you propose, but the ideas are useful for future development.

In the meantime, there is a good range of existing ways to get around the following, reasonably conveniently.

1. Typing all the tags is tedious

There are a number of existing or soon-to-be-released options to work around that:

1. Until the 'Add and edit task' dialog has completion for tasks, I add all the properties in that dialog, save the task, and then fill in the the tags, so that Obsidian's auto-completion ensures I get the tags right
2. For common patterns of new task, we have docs on using QuickAdd. For some types of new task, I might put in hard-coded tags in. For others, I make QuickAdd create a popup list of tags that I can easily select from. There is a bit more discussion of this in [solved by auto-suggest] Alternate emoji insertion methods #789
3. There is an amazing feature going to be released in the next few days that may totally remove use of the Add/edit modal for many users: feat: Intelligent dynamic auto-complete for entering tasks #822.