Changelog

April 21, 2025
8.0.0Desktop
Public

We are pleased to announce the official release of Task Genius version 8.0.0! This is a major update, introducing brand new task management views and several feature enhancements.

Shiny new things

  • feat: Calendar View -- View and manage tasks in multiple modes
    • Year view, Month view, Week view, Day view, and Agenda view
    • Visually view task deadlines and scheduled times
    • Supports quickly adding and managing tasks directly on the calendar
  • feat: Kanban View -- Trello-like Kanban interface
    • Displays tasks in columns based on their status
    • Drag-and-drop functionality for easily changing task status
    • Task cards display key information and tags
    • Quickly add tasks directly to a specific status column
  • feat: Gantt Chart View -- Project progress visualization
    • View task plans in a timeline format
    • Supports multiple time scales (Day, Week, Month, Year)
    • Zooming and navigation features

All three views above support existing features like clicking to edit tasks.

Improvement

  • feat: Goal -- Parent task progress bars can now be updated based on the completion status of subtasks, reflecting actual progress settings. @fastrick
  • feat: Autocomplete Feature -- Provides smart suggestions when editing tasks
    • Project name autocompletion
    • Context name autocompletion
    • Tag name autocompletion
  • feat: Forecast View -- Tasks with scheduled dates are now displayed in the Forecast view.
  • feat: Review View -- Faster reviewing in the Review view.
  • feat: Status Component -- More convenient task status management
    • Visual status selector
    • Quickly change task status
  • feat: Dataview and Tasks Format Support -- Full support for recognizing both formats. Note: The plugin will fall back to the Tasks format if no content is recognized using the Dataview format.
  • feat: Performance and Stability -- Improved performance and stability
  • feat: Large Task Library -- Optimized handling of large task libraries
  • feat: Translations -- Updated translations for multiple languages
  • feat: Optimizations and bug fixes -- Optimizations and bug fixes for existing features @SapphireSymphony