Plain Tasks plugin for CudaText

Installation

• install lexer ToDo (required by plugin, not included in this repo)
• install plugin Plain Tasks

Projects

• Anything with colon at the end of the line is a project title
• Projects can be nested inside each other
• Projects can be folded (a built-in editor feature)

Work with tasks

Create tasks

• command: Plain Tasks/New adds a new task; it creates an empty ToDo file if called with non-ToDo lexer active
• If you’re on a new line, plugin creates a new task on the current line
• If you’re on a line with a task, pressing new task shortcut adds a task after it
• If you’re on a line with some normal text, pressing new task shortcut converts it to a task
• New tasks are nested as much as the task on the previous line
• If option "add_created_tag"=true, also add tag @created with timestamp

Complete tasks

• command: Plain Tasks/Complete marks a task as done @done(19-12-24 01:10)
• Alt+D also marks a task as done @done(19-12-24 01:06)
• Pressing Alt+D again puts it back in pending mode
• If option "done_tags"=true, also add tag @done
• If option "done_date"=true, also add timestamp

Cancel tasks

• command: Plain Tasks/Cancel marks the task as cancelled @cancelled(19-12-24 01:12)
• Alt+C marks the task as cancelled @cancelled(19-12-24 01:12)
• Pressing Alt+C again puts it back in pending mode
• If option "done_tags"=true, also add tag @cancelled
• If option "done_date"=true, also add timestamp

Tagging tasks

• You can add tags using @ sign, like this @tag

Archiving tasks

• command: Plain Tasks/Archive archives tasks in done mode (completed or cancelled tasks).
• Alt+Shift+A archives tasks in done mode (completed or cancelled tasks).
• It does it by removing them from your list and appending them to the bottom of the file under Archive project.
• The archive project is separated from the other list of projects with a line. See bottom of this file.

Priority

• type c, press Tab key — it’ll become @critical
• type h, press Tab key — it’ll become @high
• type l, press Tab key — it’ll become @low
• type t, press Tab key — it’ll become @today

Time tracking

• type s, press Tab key — it’ll become @started(19-12-24 01:22). You’ll get a current date and time; When a task with such tag is completed/cancelled, plugin will calculate the time spent on that task.
• type tg, press Tab key — @toggle(14-10-13 16:14). That way you can pause and resume started task, so result of calculation will be more correct. First, you need start task, then toggle means pause, next toggle — resume, etc.
• type cr, press Tab key — @created(14-12-24 15:57).

File types

Plugin supports these file types out of the box:

• TODO
• *.todo
• *.todolist
• *.taskpaper
• *.tasks

Settings

To configure plugin, call menu item "Options / Settings - plugins / Plain Tasks / Config..."