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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
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June 29, 2022

Beth

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We just launched Kanban view 🎉

Przemo Trepka

Thanks for the Tasks feature. Works super cool. I see how complex it is. I came across some issues I can't resolve:

Can't add daily notes to context. I see they are being added auto when creating a task from a daily note (writing on a daily note). But if I use the Tasks section on a daily note, the context field is empty and there is no way to add a daily note to context.
In the Tasks section on Daily notes, the tasks show up only if they have a date (status unimportant, context unimportant) or their status is in the "In progress" category. I struggle to understand this logic.
Tasks can have a "next week" date, but not this week. I often have task with a "in the week" deadline (next, in two, .etc.)
I can't see the Context in the list view and have to use the embed view to be able to open the task from a Daily note just to see which project does the task belong to. It's especially annoying when I have tasks that have same/similar names (ex. "Review designs with client") and they belong to separate project.

Randy DeForest

The new task functionality is great. Thank you. I am trying to create a query on the daily notes using the new task object and the date field. When I add it to the filters, the date field does not provide a variable option - like it does for Title, for example. Is there something I can do to allow this?

Thank you.

Shawn Weber

Just noticed something when I updated the app on Mac. The 'Tasks' menu item did not appear under 'Calendar', so I had to navigate into Capscities and create a Task, and then the 'Tasks' menu item appeared, so it looks like if there is no Tasks in the system, 'Tasks' menu item doesn't appear? When I deleted that one Task, the 'Tasks' menu item persisted, so I guess the Task detected in the trash was enough for the 'Tasks' menu item to remain? Not a big deal at all, but trying to head off the mass of 'I don't see the Tasks in the menu bar after updating' messages from users mass updating today.

Fabien B

Shawn Weber Maybe it's the intended behavior. The Capacities devs probably don't want to clutter the interface and annoy users who don't use the task management feature �

Steffen Bleher

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This might come as a surprise, but we launched management in Capacities today. ✅ 🚀
We design task management as a system that requires no setup; it should just work. We hope it helps you in getting things done every day. ✔️
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You can read all about it in the release notes (https://capacities.io/whats-new/release-57) or watch our video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3za6T6iRt0). 📽️
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Oleksandr Zalishchuk

Steffen Bleher That's terrific, thank you for your hard work!

Fabien B

Steffen Bleher This feels like a Christmas present! Great job Steffen and the whole Capacities team. It's a long-awaited feature and it's finally here!

Shawn Weber

Steffen Bleher Wow!! out of nowhere!

Just tried it out and its perfect, thank you so much! The time has come to finally delete my 'hacky' self-made task-object.

Thorsten Koester

Steffen Bleher And what a surprise it is! Really well done. Love it. Now I can go all-in on Capacities.Thanks!

Jamie Farnham

This would be amazing!

Sara Cunha

Ability to see projects & tasks across week and month views in the calendar would be a great improvement to Capacities! Or, even better the possibility to choose which objects can be visible in the calendar, similar to a turn on/off feature.

Thomas Schmitz

I primarily use Capacities for task management. Therefore, a task object would be really helpful.

Ariel Gregory-Tejocote

I would love an Asana Connection!

Silvio Schmieder

I just switched from obsidian to capacities. The only feature I really miss is integrated task management. I hope it comes very soon.

Sukhjit Sandhu

Like others, I am very keen to see this come to life. I feel like this is an important feature that will eliminate a lot of frustration I have with this app.

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