Task Management in Logseq: Part 3

The next step in building the ideal task management solution in Logseq is to add lists that can show tasks marked as LATER. I like to have these tasks divided into different categories such as “home”, “work”, “writing”, etc… The groups help me focus on what type of task I need at the time. Let’s take a look at how we would add a filter for a category to our query from last time.

The Query

{
  :title            "NOW"
  :query            [
                      :find (pull ?b [*])
                      :where
                        [?b :block/marker ?m]
                        [(contains? #{"NOW", "DOING"} ?m)]
                    ]
  :result-transform (fn [result] ( result))
  :breadcrumb-show? false
}

Here is the original query. Again, we are grabbing all blocks with a marker that is equal to “NOW” or “DOING”. We remove any superfluous content around the tasks with the :result-transform and :breadbrumb-show? clauses. The next step is quite simple.

{
  :title            "WORK"
  :query            [
                      :find (pull ?b [*])
                      :where
                        [?b :block/marker ?m]
                        [(contains? #{"LATER", "TODO"} ?m)]
                        (page-ref ?b "work")
                    ]
  :result-transform (fn [result] ( result))
  :breadcrumb-show? false
  :collapsed?       true
}

In this query,

1. We want tasks marked with “LATER” so we change the contains? condition to look for “LATER” and “TODO” rather than “NOW” and “DOING”.
2. We add another condition to the :where clause that filters to only blocks on the page “work”.
3. We change the :title of the query to reflect the new results.
4. We add a collapsed? clause that defaults the list to be collapse. This way if we have a bunch of tasks for later, we don’t clutter the journal page with tasks that we don’t typically need to see.

Now we create a new task on a journal page: LATER Here is a work task #work. This gives use a new list on today’s journal page that looks like this when it is expanded:

Of course, you can add as many of these queries as you’d like for whatever categories you can think of.

Next Steps

Next we will look at scheduled tasks and how we can effectively snooze a task to make it hidden until a specific date passes.