My journey with Task Genius

[phortx]

Hi,

I'm currently using TaskNotes and discovered Task Genius today. I'm really amazed by the amount of features of Task Genius, so I tried to replace TaskNotes with Task Genius today as at seems to have everything I need. However I found a bunch of bugs and missing features while setting up everything.

I want to share all issues here in order to discuss and improve this plugin. I'm not experienced with Obsidian Plugin Development but I'm curious to maybe contribute via PRs.

My Requirements

• One task per file: I use it for project management so it's crucial for me to have one file per task / one task per file. With lot's of notes and details and checkboxes and stuff. As a power user of obsidian and managing dozens of projects with 300+ tasks a big file with some checkboxes isn't enough ;)
• All other Checkboxes/Tasks within the vault should be ignored by Task Genius accordingly.
• There should be a quick capture that creates a new file and is listed in the inbox afterwards.
• New Task can have a template
• Custom Priorities: I want to have Eisenhower Priorities (Urgent, Important, Urgent & Important, Neither)
• Smart Board or Table Views for Today, Tomorrow, This Week, This Month, Someday
• Board View with custom Status and cards with properties like deadline
• Custom Properties

List of issues

Everything is tested with Obsidian 1.9.12 & Task Genius 9.8.14 in a new and blank vault.

First I created a demo vault with my settings: https://github.com/phortx/task-genius-demo-vault

Then I gathered all issues in a table:

Requirement	Challenge	Suggested Improvement
Disable inline tasks	It's not simply possible to disable them, I used the workaround of "Focus Headlines" and entered something weird to make sure that this headline is never used and thus no inline tasks are indexed.	Would be nice to disable them just like it's possible to enable/disable file-level tasks.
Quick capture file level tasks	Not possible	There should be an option in the Quick Capture settings to force file level tasks.
Auto template for new tasks	Not possible	There should be a setting to set default template for new task files.
Smart filter views (Today, Tomorrow, ...)	Not possible	Seems to be a bug: #276 Maybe use Bases filter logic with also allows basic scripting.
Board view	Tasks don't show up on the board (workaround: set a filter and then remove again)	Looks like a bug to me, couldn't find existing issue for that
Properties visible on board view cards	Not possible to configure that.	Would be nice to select which properties should be displayed, like Due Date etc.
Quick editing tasks (for example in board or table view)	Is somewhat broken: Properties reset randomly	Looks like a bug to me, couldn't find existing issue for that
Notes continue to work normally	Pasting Text (CMD+V) next to a CheckBox doesn't work anymore, it just changes the state of the checkbox.	This is a Bug in my opinion and should work. See #351
Custom properties	Not possible currently.	Would be nice to add own properties, something like the TaskNotes Plugin does.
Custom priorities	Not possible currently.	Would be nice to define the priority options, something like the TaskNotes Plugin does.

That's it for now. I stopped trying to make it work for now, as there are too many obstacles. Maybe I'm missing something, feel free to point me in the right direction :)

Edit: CMD+V never works, nothing to do with other plugins.