Task management in Capacities
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Steffen Bleher
Tasks as entities and fully integrated management
- recurring tasks
- connected with tagging
- compatible with contextual backlinks
- kanban view
- due or do date
- open tasks in daily notes
- ...
Feel free to comment with your must-haves.
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Beth
Merged in a post:
A checkbox to just make your daily notes recurring
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Vivian Gonzalez
I have my daily to-do's and most of them just carry on into the next day. I wish there was a "recurring" option in blocks where they just repeat on the daily notes. Is that possible?
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Shawn Weber
One of the biggest gaps for me right now is the lack of a clean way to manage open tasks across days.
Currently, checklist items are just part of the daily note, so if I create a task on a certain day and don’t complete it, it just stays anchored to that date, trailing off into the past. The only options are:
-Go backwards to find open tasks manually (not ideal),
-Copy the task forward into each new day (clunky),
-Or link the same task across multiple daily notes (which quickly becomes a mess and breaks traceability).
Here’s what I’d love to see:
Open tasks should appear in a “Today” task view—a simple, persistent section in the daily note/calendar (like the appointments widget) showing all uncompleted tasks, regardless of when they were created. Think of it like Outlook’s “To Do” sidebar: it just shows what’s still open.
If tasks have due dates, they should be grouped (and optionally collapsible) by:
-Overdue
-Today
-Tomorrow
-Future
…with no-date tasks appearing below these, unless a toggle allows placing them above.
No new task view needed—this should just live inside the existing daily note or calendar view. A simple widget or pane to pull all open checkboxes into one glance would solve 90% of the pain.
This wouldn’t require introducing complex project management features—it would simply make daily task flow manageable without needing external tools or constantly reworking the same items.
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Katja Evertz
Shawn Weber This would be perfect, indeed. One thing I love about Capacities is that the task management is not as bloated. I'd much prefer this option over a separate object type for tasks in Capacities.
(I've used Notion before with a task database which worked well, but really was way more than I needed for the bulk of my tasks.)
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Chris ONeal
Shawn Weber Yes this would tick all the boxes. I'm totally cool with minimal. I don't need, or want, Todoist-level features.
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Aglaé ✨
Can't wait for this. Any updates?
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Muhammad Dzaky Waly Andarwa
I didnt know about full fledged task management, perhaps for mvp we could use Kanban View that can be grouped based on tags as column? or maybe query feature, that could search block object with checkbox, and filter if either the checkbox is already checked or not
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Miroslav Joler
I feel that Capacities badly need the feature of
reminders
. It helps me a lot with my daily tasks and for that, I constantly have to use Notion in parallel with Capacities because Notion has simple implementation of reminders and it works quite reliably.H
Henrike Dijkstra
The only thing I actually really need from this list is Kanban view. Not even for task management... It's the one thing that I find severely lacking in Capacities' views.
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Zac Hansen
Please take your time and do this right.
I use Capacities as my primary task manager simply because I hate jumping between tasks.
My team runs on Clickup but that's too much for me.
Favorite looking app is TimeStripe for the entire Kanban view
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Xiangyun Wu
is this coming or not...
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Martin Bazzoni
Xiangyun Wu, good question. Probably not. After 3 years...
They just keep it on the list so people stay and pay
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Ivo Gorgachev
It would be great to be able to have task lists with items that can live in multiple places. I.e. I have "per project" task lists, but also a "weekly" and "monthly" task list -- I like to be able to put things on my project's specific list, but due in a week or a month, and I don't want them showing up for this week, but I also don't want to be duplicating the entry in multiple lists.
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Chris ONeal
I think all most people want is for tasks to become full fledged special objects... that can be part of a query, but we don't want to have to create a new object every time. I would look at how Tana does it. Tasks are object types with the checkbox being tied to updating the status to 'completed'... Then let us group tasks by their origin (project) I think that would satisfy most people's task needs.
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