Bulk editing of tasks

59 votes

1. User should be able to via shift click or other mechanism select a number of tasks.
2. User should then be able to alter attributes of collection of tasks in aggregate.

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I have 125 tasks with the tag school/fall2021

I could like to hide all tasks with a due date later than 11/1 for now

I view all tasks with school/fall2021 tag

I sort tasks my start date

I shift click the tasks due after 11/1

I use the task update GUI to hide tasks once

Change is in place for all selected tasks.

Under consideration Suggested by: robb (04 Oct, '21) • Upvoted: 11 Mar • Comments: 8

Comments: 8

25 Mar, '22
Jose
This is a 'hair on fire' issue for me now.

1. Because we have shared tags now, and we use a shared tag to onboard team members, we need to tag multiple documents with ease.
2. When using zettelkasten, the standard practice is to create multiple small notes about a problem and interlink them. That means that to share context about a decision you need to share multiple docs instead of a single, long one. Which means tagging multiple notes is a must
12 Apr, '22
weird
yeah, same with hiding...need to be able to hide a bunch of tasks until tomorrow or something

btw clicking inside a task and then pressing shift+up selects it and all its children. Continuing to press shift+up will add the task above it, etc. That's at least useful for bulk indent.
07 Oct, '22
Cibrán Merged
It would be great to select several tasks and be able to put e.g. the same due date or other details.

Please ignore if this is already possible, I'm new and checked the manuals but didn't find the way to do it.
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07 Oct, '22
OscarDiaz Merged
Actualmente sólo a las tareas contenidas dentro de las notas se les puede agregar una por una fecha y recordatorios. Pero seria excelente poder poner fechas y recordatorios a un conjunto de tareas que yo he agrupado en una nota. Si tengo 10 tareas a realizar continuas tendría que ponerles fecha y recordatorio una por una!!!.... Y lo mejor sería ponerle fecha y recordatorio a la NOTA y esta fecha y recordatorio abarcaría las 10 notas!!
11 Oct, '22
Lucian Admin
"Batch editing" (suggested by Cibrán on 2022-10-07), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
11 Oct, '22
Lucian Admin
"Poder poner fecha y recordatorios a NOTAS completas no sólo a las tareas que contiene" (suggested by OscarDiaz on 2022-10-07), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
26 Oct, '23
Mike
I was going to start a separate suggestion to allow bulk editing, specifically clearing accumulated task score (!reset-score), but allowing bulk editing of pretty much everything would be amazing.
31 Oct, '23
Cibran
Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaase! This is absolutely necessary. Am I the only one not able to finish all my tasks and wanting to pass all of them to the next week? Or changing some attributes like "Important" and "Urgent" or any other to several tasks?