Date & Priority management

Task Genius provides intuitive ways to add and manage due dates and priorities for your tasks directly within Obsidian notes.

Due dates

Assign due dates using the calendar emoji (📅) followed by a date in YYYY-MM-DD format.

- [ ] Submit report 📅 2023-12-25

• Calendar Picker: Click the calendar icon and also the date text (📅 2023-12-25) in Live Preview mode to open a date picker menu and easily select or modify the due date.
  • Configurable: You can customize what kind of the emoji is used as the calendar icon (support start date emoji, scheduled date emoji, due date emoji, etc.) in the settings.

Priorities

Assign priorities using specific emoji or the priority dataview-style inline field (priority::).

Common emoji used (configurable in settings):

• 🔺 Highest
• ⏫ High
• 🔼 Medium
• 🔽 Low
• ⏬ Lowest

Alternatively, use bracketed priorities like [#A], [#B], [#C].

- [ ] Urgent Task 🔺
- [ ] High priority task ⏫
- [ ] Normal task
- [ ] Low priority task [priority:: low]
- [ ] Another way [#B]

• Priority Selector: In Live Preview mode, click the priority icon (if present) to open a dropdown menu for quick selection.
• Context Menu: Right-click on a task line and use the Task Genius: Set priority submenu.
• Commands: Use commands like Task Genius: Set priority A, Task Genius: Set priority B, Task Genius: Remove priority via the command palette.