Task Click Status

An Obsidian plugin that gives task checkboxes richer click behavior and five statuses instead of the default two.

• Single-click an unchecked task: [x] (green highlight, no strikethrough).
• Double-click a checkbox within 450 ms: [-] (red cross, strikethrough).
• Single-click a completed or cancelled task: [ ] (reopen).
• Right-click the checkbox: choose To do, In progress [/], Deferred [>], Done, or Cancelled.
• In progress has a yellow highlight and clock icon; Deferred has a blue highlight and arrow.
• Single-click an in-progress or deferred task to complete it; double-click to cancel it.
• Deferred is a status only: it does not move the task to another note.
• A single click waits briefly to distinguish it from a double click.

Supports ordinary Markdown task checkboxes in Live Preview and Reading view. Generated task-query results (e.g. from the Tasks or Dataview plugins) and unrecognized custom task statuses are left alone.

No network access and no external dependencies - it only reads and edits the current vault's own Markdown files.

Installing

Manually: copy main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from this repository into <your vault>/.obsidian/plugins/task-click-status/, then restart Obsidian or toggle Task Click Status off and on in Settings > Community plugins.

Via BRAT: install the community plugin Obsidian42 - BRAT, then use "Add a beta plugin" and paste this repository's URL - BRAT installs it and checks for updates automatically, without needing it listed in Obsidian's official directory.

Either way, enable Task Click Status afterward in Settings > Community plugins. Disabling the plugin restores Obsidian's normal single-click-to-complete behavior.

Development

node test.cjs runs simulated API tests against main.js directly (it does not open a real Obsidian window, so it can't catch a live-UI-only regression).

Author

Joel Payippara Shibu (github.com/jpayippa)

License

GPLv3 or later. You're free to copy, modify, and redistribute this (including commercially), as long as any distributed copy or modified version is also licensed under the GPL and comes with its source code.