[FR]: Display custom properties in tasknote card and widget #890
Description
Feature Description
I love the tasknotes tasknotes widget. I would like the custom properties to be displayable on tasknote cards / widget.
Example use case: displaying dependencies that are not tasks
A task might require you to talk to a specific person. You could have a custom property with that person's name. If that property were visible on the tasknote cards, when you look at your agenda or other views, you could easily see that there are four separate things you need to talk to Bob about spread throughout the week and collate them into one meeting, or postpone them because Bob's on holiday this week.
(Context is not a good fit for this IMHO. If you start creating contexts for individual people, it's hard to disambiguate multiple people with the same name, especially when you're in the flow of creating your tasks.)
Similarly, a task might be waiting for a decision or information that's out of your control. If you could display in the tasknote card what decision or information that task needs, then you can see if that task is doable at its planned date or needs to be postponed.
(I understand that both of these examples could be sort-of achieved with existing features (eg make Bob a project, create a faux task for the prerequisite that blocks the other task) but I think that blurs the purpose of the features. Bob is not a project, and "wait for document Z" is not an actionable task. IME using those kinds of kludges tends to make a system awkward.)
Example use-case: task substeps
I break my tasks into tiny steps to help with executive function. For example, a task to file my quarterly tax involves completing the spreadsheet of expenses, lodging my statement in the portal, and then paying the tax.
Creating individual tasknotes for all those steps adds too much extra complexity and fragility with recurrences, dependencies and ensuring completion. So instead, I list the tiny steps out within the tasknote as - [ ] tasks. I'd love to be able to show on the tasknote widget what the next tiny step is.
I'm currently bolting together my own solution using dataviewjs to display the tasknote link (which gets converted by the widget) and then a dv.tasklist underneath, but this is pretty janky. If tasknotes cards could display a custom property, I could use metabind to auto-update a note property with the text of the next tiny step.