Automations Tab

The Automations tab contains settings to automate task management workflows, reducing manual work and improving efficiency.

Restrict task completion to child-tasks and sub-tasks

Input Field Default
Toggle OFF

This is a nice feature which helps you to restrict from marking any task as complete until its sub-tasks and child-tasks has been marked as completed.

Auto add selected universal date

Input Field Default
Toggle OFF

When enabled, the current universal date (selected in General settings) is automatically assigned to new tasks created via the “Add New Task” modal.

Auto Add Created Date

Input Field Default
Toggle ON

When enabled, today’s date is automatically added as the created date when you create a new task through the “Add New Task” modal.

This only applies to tasks created via the Task Board plugin. Tasks added directly to markdown files won’t get created dates unless you add them manually.

Auto Add Completed Date

Input Field Default
Toggle OFF

When enabled, the current date-time is automatically added to the completion date property when you mark a task as complete.

Auto Add Cancelled Date

Input Field Default
Toggle OFF

When enabled, the current date-time is automatically added to the cancelled date property when you mark a task as cancelled.

Daily notes plugin compatibility

Input Field Default
Toggle OFF

When enabled, the name of your daily note, which must be a proper date value, will be virtually applied as the universal date to the task.

See : Daily notes plugin integration.

Day Planner Plugin Compatibility

Input Field Default
Toggle OFF

This setting will only allow you to enable itself, if the Day planner plugin is installed and enabled.

When enabled:

  • Task times display according to Day Planner format in markdown
  • Changes in Day Planner reflect in Task Board
  • Timeline integration becomes available

See : Day planner plugin integration.

QuickAdd Plugin Compatibility

Input Field Default
Toggle OFF

When enabled, allows integration with QuickAdd plugin for creating tasks through QuickAdd workflows.

See: QuickAdd Plugin Integration

Push notification compatibility

Input Field Options Default
Dropdown None
Reminder plugin
Obsi app
None

Using this setting you can decide the format of the reminder property to use, to maintain a good integration with the other plugins/services you are using to get push notification functionality.

See : Push notification services integration.